Page Title Not Displayed in SERPS
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Why would a page title not be displayed in the SERPS? Everything appears to be formatted correctly in the code, yet the title of the company gets displayed instead of the page title? Any general idea why this could be happening?
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Hi Michael,
It is not uncommon for Google to chose a page title to display and ignore your meta title. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable has written about this a couple of times, with examples, on the following posts.
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I work with a dating agency and I see this a lot now where google would actually take the content from the site and display what they think is relevant to that search term. They change where the description would be.. with your page content. It's actually helped us. I actually haven't seen this case in the title but I imagine its the same kind of thing.
In another note: Did your meta data change recently? If so you would need to wait for Google to re-cache.
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