I changed my home title and meta description but on google, i still see the old title and meta description. Whats the problem here?
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I basically changed the title and meta description of my homepage and when i search on google, it still shows old. Whats the issue?
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We never know exactly why Google makes the determinations it does. Maybe your competitor's site is better optimized for luxury cars, or maybe it has to do with links to the page. SEO is always done in a bit of a black box...
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First, when you search " Exotic Car Rental Miami " , the link up above us, which has no exotic car rental miami in its title, Displays their full title of " Luxury Car Rental Miami Florida "
Second, when i search " Luxury Car Rental Miami " on google, it still doesn't show my full title. it still only shows the first half
the reason i added Exotic Car Rental Miami and Luxury Car Rental Miami to my title, is so i can rank high for both. but then when i look at the search results, (regular and incognito) it shows only the first half of the title.
I looked at the cached version of my website , clicking the the green arrow as you said, i saw the full title on page source. Confirming to me that the whole title got crawled.
if, as you said, google shows the most relevant part of your title, if i search luxury car rental miami, shouldnt it show my full title ?
It just confuses me that other websites show their full title when i search exotic car rental miami and luxury car rental miami
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Google tries to show the result that is most specifically relevant to your search. When you search for "Exotic Car Rental Miami", "Exotic Car Rental Miami" is the most relevant part of the title. [Google uses the title and description you supply as strong suggestions, but it does not always use them.] Since you were not looking for Luxury Car Rentals, Google figures that part is not relevant to you.
I am not sure which parts of the rest you didn't understand?
When you do a search, you can click on the little green triangle next to the URL in the search results to see what the page looked like the last time Google crawled it, and the date on which Google crawled it.
As far as anonymous search, Google learns from your searches, so the results you see can be different depending on what you have done in the past. If you use an anonymous browser window (like Incognito on Chrome) you can avoid this.
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i see what you're saying
For my website, " Prestige Luxury Rentals ", i have the tile " Exotic Car Rental Miami - Luxury Car Rental Miami (57 characters)". when i search my websites name or the entire title on google, my full title shows up. Fine but, when i search the keyword " Exotic Car Rental Miami ", it only shows " Exotic Car Rental Miami " on my website's title. The meta description fully shows but not the title. What's the issue here?
Also, i dont understand what you mean by
"" If I click to see the cached version (it was cached on May 12) and look at the source, I see the same thing, with a slightly longer title, Exotic Car Rental Miami - Luxury Car Rental Miami Florida.
It wouldn't be odd for Google to shorten the title in the case of my search on the URL. (When I search for the full title, I see the full title in the SERP.)
Did you do an anonymous search when you were checking? You might be picking something up from your own history """ ??. I'm new and still learning
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Is your site prestigeluxuryrentals.com (from your sig)?
If I search on that URL, I see:
Title: Exotic Car Rental Miami
Description: Prestige Luxury Rentals offers the newest exotic & luxury cars for rent. Book an exotic car rental or luxury car rental in Miami, Miami Beach, and South.If I click to see the cached version (it was cached on May 12) and look at the source, I see the same thing, with a slightly longer title, Exotic Car Rental Miami - Luxury Car Rental Miami Florida.
It wouldn't be odd for Google to shorten the title in the case of my search on the URL. (When I search for the full title, I see the full title in the SERP.)
Did you do an anonymous search when you were checking? You might be picking something up from your own history...
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^ Yes! Very important to note - thanks Tom!
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As long a your website is verified in Google Webmaster Tools, try logging in and submit your URL via the Fetch as Google tool (Crawl > Fetch as Google).
Nothing is 100% certain, but just like Patrick said it might take a few days for Google to crawl your website.
Also, Google doesn't always show the meta description you designate in your source code. Cyrus says it best in his comment here:
"..Google will use your search query to populate the description with what it thinks is relevant. So different search queries will pull different descriptions into Google results for the same URL. So what you see isn't what every searcher sees for every query."
Hope that helps!
Tom
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Hi there
Google more than likely hasn't crawled your site to notice the changes you implemented. Depending on the size and popularity of your site, it could take some time before these changes reflect in search results.
Here are some suggestions to help the process:
- Check your server responses
- Check your robots.txt and meta tags
- Verify your site in Google & Bing Webmaster Tools
- Update your sitemap and upload it to Google & Bing Webmaster Tools
- Make sure your site is crawlable for Googlebot
- Google also crawls through inbound links to your site - take a look at your Local SEO for some potentially quick and easy wins
Hope this all helps - just have to wait patiently while Google recognizes your changes - shouldn't be an issue! Good luck!
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