Problem indexing web developed with Ruby on Rails
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Hi there!
Here we are again, we are having problems indexing one of our clients, which website has been developed with Ruby on Rails.
It doesnt get the titles right from almost all our pages...Has anyone had the same problem? Any feedback would help a lot...
Thanks!
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Hi Eduardo,
For the titles this is probably due to google rewriting page titles based on brand searches. They have been experimenting with various ways of displaying titles in the serps for branded searches and if you are searching for 'jobsandtalent' with no spaces then this is a pretty specific search and google is rewriting you title based on it. If you search for your whole page title + brand you will see the normal title as expected. It does not have anything to do with Ruby on Rails.
As for the page rank, this is not a number I place much importance in. I cant remember off hand how often it is updated but it is not all the time. More to the point to be looking a moz domain and page metrics if you ask me. That being said I see your pr as 5 for the root domain www.jobandtalent.oom.
I noticed you seem to be using cookie based redirects from the main domain to the language folder so that if you have entered /es once then going to the .com main page automatically pushes you to .com/es. This can potentially be problematic in terms of google properly indexing you site. I cannot say if this is responsible for your difficulties in rankings but in a competitive sector like job postings I would certainly look changing that so that google (and users) can view all pages of the site in whichever language they choose without being pushed into a language based on cookies.
Hope that helps!
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Lynn is correct, if you give a look we can see if we spot anything.
When you say they don't get the titles right, Google often changes the titles depending on the search term. But a site:domain.com search should bring up correct titles.
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Hi Eduardo,
There is no reason why the language the site is developed in would have this affect since the page titles etc that the search engines read are in the final html produced, so if it looks right in the html it should look right to the crawlers. Same goes for the indexing of pages, although in that case there are more potential issues, but again none specific to ruby on rails. Care to give an example so we can have a look?
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