Meta Title Not Showing up in Google
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Hello Friends,
I have a website, www.bollywoodshaadis.com. On 1st may we changed our servers and revamped our website as per SEO updated guidelines.
For some strange reason Google is not showing site Meta Title when you search the website on Google. All it shows is the domain name in the meta title. However, when you search info:www.bollywoodshaadis.com it shows the right Meta tags.
Any reason for this happening? I have never seen this before.
Thank you in advance.
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I don't know the exact reason for this but I had a similar problem on one of my websites.
When I searched for my brand name Google would show only my brand name as the title but for long tail phrases it would show the actual title. I also had a title tag similar to yours where there was a list of key phrases separated by a pipe symbol. I changed this to look more natural by using these phrases in two well written sentences rather than a list of phrases and Google now shows the correct title for all searches.
I would recommend trying to rewrite your title tags in this way and see if it makes any difference. Since the recent Google updates many people are now suggesting to naturalise title tags rather than having a list of keywords as was popular before (which could be viewed as over optimisation).
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