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Archived pages appearing from nowhere in Google Search

by Prakash Dayani
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Hi Mates,

I have a website - Technicalguru.info

When I use an operator in google search site:technicalguru.info to check indexing, I get to see the pages from my site appearing in the search results. The problem is that there are few categories which are showing as <category> Archives. I never archived those pages.



On the contrary, when I click on the link it takes me to the correct page and there is no existence of "archive" in the page URL as well.

https://i.imgur.com/y6TZ5os.png

Is this something normal or is it something to worried about?

PS . I am using Wordpress.
#appearing #archived #google #pages #search
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaun Marrs
    It might just be held in the Google cache for yourwebsite and be dropped in the next refresh.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    URLs do not dictate SERP titles.

    It is in your title tag, so it is showing up exactly as it is supposed to.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    Mike is right. It is definitely a title tag. It may very well be one of the many pages that get automatically created by your platform (I'm guessing WordPress) and you may have no control at all over the title tag of those auto-created archive pages.

    If it bothers you, there is a plugin that supposedly lets you take control of that (and other similar types of auto-created pages) - https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-archive-titles/
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    It seems that the OP is not familiar with the title tag and also search engine randomly pull some of the information within your site in which they will provide in the SE results.
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