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by otfromtot
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I don't know if this would be a programming issue or not, but google search results are showing strange information when I search my site. If I search "car shipping rates" there are two sites that have the "company name: Page title" the first one is Ship Your Car Now and the next one is Auto Driveaway.

I have looked through everything on the site and don't see anything that should be putting "Company name:" before the title, and on bing search it doesn't do this.

Could this be caused by linking a google plus account to the site?
#google #search
  • Profile picture of the author otfromtot
    could this be caused be either of these?
    <meta name="copyright" content="Company Name" />
    <meta name="author" content="Company Name" />
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  • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
    Originally Posted by otfromtot View Post

    If I search "car shipping rates" there are two sites that have the "company name: Page title" the first one is Ship Your Car Now and the next one is Auto Driveaway.
    In your 2nd example, "Auto Driveway:" is contained in the <title> tag. In your first example though, no idea where Google is pulling the first part of that page title from. Lots of places where they could get that sort of info from though (Google Analytics, Google +, sitemap, metadata, etc).
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  • Profile picture of the author otfromtot
    Thank you, I'll have to go through the profiles and see why it's doing that.
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  • Profile picture of the author crescendo
    I think Google+ is the best place to get any kind of information from.
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