How long does it take to seen Title in SERP
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A friend of mine asked me how long it takes before Google shows the right Title in the SERPs.
He changed the title of his homepage some weeks ago but Google still shows the old Title in the rankings...
I'm a Wordpress user and don't have this problem, when I change something in the title it doesn't take that long to see the changes showing up in SERPs
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Great stuff, glad it looks to be sorted. Come back and pop a reply should you need more help!
Good luck!
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weeks... just checked sitemap & robots.txt and there was indeed a problem with some pages that were blocked.... thx guys!!!
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OK, if he hasn't already, he should create a sitemap. This should help speed things up and allow all the pages on the site to be crawled by the bots.
As an example, this is SEOmoz sitemap.
When were the amendments made? Are we talking days or weeks?
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Probably submit a sitemap once again to google and reduce the crawl frequency to a lower duration.
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No, the site is online for quite some time, and he told me Googlebot did crawl the page yet...
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It can depend on how often Google bots crawl his website. When did he make the change? Is it a new site?
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