Title Tag Not Relaying In Google Search
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Our title tag is "<title>HCG</span> Diet - HCG Drops - Example Weight Loss - HCG Diet Weight Loss</title>"
But in google it is only displaying "HCG diet"
Reasons? What can I do to fix this? I'm trying to get this fixed asap, as it is our homepage that is being effected by it.
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And Don is correct... If I search for just HCG Diet then I get the google suggested title for hcgdiet.com, whereas I get the full title when I search for "HCG Diet HCG Drops"
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The bad news: It's not you it's them....
The Good news: Google runs it through their analytics and hopefully picks the highest CTR.
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JohnMu from Google gives advice as to why Google may rewrite your title tags, and Barry Schwartz has summarized it at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/023139.html. I'm thinking it may be because your title tags look a bit stuffed/spammy.
In short, John says it may happen when:
- Titles are particularly short
- Titles are shared across large parts of your site
- Titles appear to be mostly a collection of keywords
What do you do if this happens to your titles? John said:
One thing you can do to help prevent this is to make sure that your titles and descriptions are relevant, unique and compelling, without being "stuffed" with too much boilerplate text across your site.
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I assume that is because you searched for HCG Diet, Google is highlighting your keyword. Try searching for
"HCG Diet HCG Drops" and see what it says.
Hope it helps.
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