Google pulling in wrong title tag!
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Has anyone else seen their title tag different in the SERPS to what you have called it in the <title>?? </p> <p>I work for MITIE and when you type in "facilities management" it shows our title tag as "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mitie.com/services/strategic-outsourcing/integrated-facilities-management">Integrated <em>facilities management</em> - Mitie</a>" and it should be "<span>MITIE | Facilities management - Facilities management companies - Facility management UK" </span></p> <p><span>The only thing I can think of is that it's picking it from the H1 on the page but why it'd do that! The page is here www.mitie.com/services/strategic-outsourcing/integrated-facilities-management</span></p> <p><span>Any ideas?</span></p></title>
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Thanks for your reply Ian, yeah I was reading that on SEL. I guess we have to just sit back and wait for Google to play along!
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Yeah, all done and submitted. It is not a side wide issue, just with a few pages! Very strange
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Karl, did you verify that your sitemap was correct, and re-submitted this new sitemap?
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Google has always changed title in the SERPs to what they think is best. In some cases, it can be a total nightmare. Search Engine Land posted this article yesterday on this exact same issue with two different companies: http://searchengineland.com/google-title-wrong-157819
Hopefully, Google will allow webmaster more control over their listings in the SERPs!
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Thanks Jesse,
We did migrate the website but we redirected all the URL's and the titles and metas didn't change so I'm a bit stumped! Good old Google!
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Yeah weird. It's also having it's way with your description (in case you hadn't noticed). Only time I've ever seen this is when the site was changed and it took a little while for Google to recognize the change.
I'm assuming your page hasn't changed recently though so I'm not sure what to tell you..
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