Interesting indexing issue - any input would be greatly appreciated!
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A few months ago we did SEO for a website, just like any other website. However, we did not see crawl/indexing results that we have with all of our other SEO projects - the Google webmaster tool was indicating that only 1 page of the site (although only 20 pages) was indexed.
The site was older & originally developed in Dreamweaver, so although that shouldn't have been an issue, we were desperate to solve the problem & ended up rebuilding the site in WordPress. While this actually helped increase the number of pages on the site that Google indexed (now all 20) - we are still seeing strange things in the search results. For example, when we check rankings manually for a particular term, the new description is showing, however, it is displaying the old title text.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? Thank you so much!!
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Thank you for your response! I will try this out!
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Thank you for your response! It has been 2-3 months... will just be patient!
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I agree it can be the old site still showing up in the cached version of the search results.
You can use a plug-in called Yoast word press SEO
http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
if you want to make sure that this is fixed correctly. It will allow you to type in the correct description entitles that you wish to implement.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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Can it be that the old indexed page still shows the old text? In my experience when I change metas and titles it takes a random amount of time to get indexed the way I want it, even though webmaster tools show the correct info.
The randomness is even worse when it comes to ranking rich snippets (in my experience).
How long has it been? I would just give it some time
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