Why does google keep shortening my title?

[joemas99]

IRS Problems, Tax Problems

<cite>www.taxproblem.org/</cite>

We are a Local Houston CPA Firm in Harris County Texas, dedicated to helping taxpayers resolve their tax problems. We mean, “actually resolve their IRS ...

Checking the source code doesn't reveal any reason I can see why they would do that. It happens most often,  if not all the time, and only Google results

So if anyone would check the source code of my main page and can see why and what needs to be done, I can fix it. Thanks

[joemas99]

Maybe I'll try a bit less stuffing, but would rather have the value of the key words in the search. Does anyone know if Google still gives search vale for the terms it leaves out? I will try a small test to see what happens. Thanks

[joemas99]

I know what you mean thanks

[KeriMorgret]

Here's some information from a Googler on a couple of reasons why they change the title tags. It happens to all kinds of sites, including Apple, and can happen depending on the query used as well.

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/023139.html

[EGOL]

For my title tags I believe that Google is removing a great marketing message and replacing it with keywords - often in lower case which is counter to my style.  They also are appending a domain on the end of some of my titles and I already have the domain in the title - so it appears twice and looks dumb.

I am not doing anything to trigger this.  I don't know how to stop them.

I would like to have an attribute "DFWMT". 

[joemas99]

From prior discussions, you seem to know seo pretty well. So are you saying that there is nothing in my tags causing that, It's Google changing titles? I use my trade mark "Killer" in those titles. Not the first words so I can optimize my key words, bt after that. It's for branding recognition. Now the killer is gone. I'll deal with it if there is nothing I can do about it.

Google still uses the whole meta title as key words for the search results I hope? Right

[EGOL]

Google has been monkeying with my titles for at least a few months.  Sometimes I like what they do and sometimes I don't.  ... and it really ticks me off when they change my PPC titles.

[JaredBroker]

Hey Joe,

That's a nice looking site!

You could try the Wordpress SEO plugin instead of Platinum.  It is what I use and I like it better than Platinum.

Have a good one.