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Title in search engine is different from title on post?

by Jmart24
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1)firstly, i want to get the terminology. what is the correct name of the title that comes up in google and what is the title name that comes up on the actual page (title tag)?

2) which title is more important in ranking?

3) how would u change both title (what tag?)?

this is not my site btw. it is on drupal also btw
#engine #post #search #title
  • Profile picture of the author infimis
    Hey Jmart24,

    1) Title tag is correct for both.
    2) Both are in reference to one tag. The Goolge version is just Google being silly and using alternative title for the deeper pages.(search up "why is google using alternative title tag")
    3) Once again, its the same <title> tag. Don't be fooled by Google ignoring your title and generating an alternative. This used to happen to eCommerce sites mostly but now it's becoming more common. Google even released an article about this while back claiming how their algorithm selects alternative titles to increase clicks. Not sure how true that is.

    Personally I would do a diagnostics of the complete site and make sure the keywords are evenly spread out in all other on-page SEO spots. If the rest of the page doesn't relate with the keywords in the title then it seems more likely for Google to use alternative version for the SERP.

    All the best. Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jmart24
    i did a bit of reading, it seems to be because of the meta content tag. Anyone know?
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    There's two simple explanation I can think of. The titles may have changed just recently, and Google hasn't updated their index yet. Or Google has noticed that their titles are stuffed, spammy and too long, and is generating "an improved title from anchors, on-page text, or other sources".

    There's also Dublin Core title meta tag (dc:title) that matches the title exactly on that particular page, but that field has nothing to do with it.

    "Meta content" is not a tag. It's the parameter that holds the contents for most meta tags.
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    What's your excuse?
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