Auto Generated Title by Google in SERP
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Is there a way to tell Goolge to use my title instead of one generated by Google
I have unique meta tags for each page, no duplicates, why Google is doing that? Thanks
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This happens far more frequently than you probably assumed. I do however find it amusing that one search will return my page with the correct title and then a similar search will return my page with an altered title. Seems almost silly that a synonym can completely change how my site's information appears in the SERPs... but it happens. On a positive side though, sometimes that may actually help to make you more relevant to a search you didn't think of while not hurting your positions for the terms you're trying to rank for.
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Sometimes if your TITLE is over-optimized, then Google will put its own TITLE on it. Change you TITLE and give a week or so for for Google's index to update and see what happens.
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No way to change it. They feel that their title is more relevant toward the searcher's query than yours.
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