Changing the Title Tag But It Does Not Reflect In Google Results

[merkal2013]

I have changed the page title for www.finanscaddesi.com to read as "Finans Caddesi | Paranın Pusulası" (as you can see from the source code) But Google still shows the old version. I have checked Google's guidelines regarding page titles. They say if we find a reference anchor text that is linking to the page (such as a DMOZ entry) we may use the anchor text as page title. I wonder whether there is a method I can follow to change the title tag to appear as "Finans Caddesi | Paranın Pusulası" in Google search results. Thanks in advance!

[merkal2013]

Its been almost 3 months since I changed the title for www.stradiji.com, even though Google crawled the homepage, it keeps the same title tag on search results. Isn't it strange?

[William.Lau]

Again, it takes time if your site is not crawled often. On my SERP it shows it was last crawled on Jul 11, 2013.

[merkal2013]

Thanks William, I did not know that. Will use it regularly from now on. Just checked the tool for our own website www.stradiji.com and it shows that Google crawled the page title as "Dijital Pazarlama için Doğru Strateji | Stradiji" but Google search results for our brand name "stradiji" comes with a different title tag. You can check from here: https://www.google.com.tr/search?sourceid=ie7&q=stradiji&rls=com.microsoft:tr:{referrer:source?}&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ACAW_trTR387 I guess Google brings the headline on our homepage as title tag, even though we updated the title tag as different. Any idea?

[William.Lau]

That tool is just another way to crawl your page to see what they see. You should wait a few more days to see if it will update.

[merkal2013]

This is great, thank you so much!

[merkal2013]

Thank you William for your quick response. I did it a few days ago, I tried fetch as Google (bot). Actually this has been happening to most of my customers sites. Google seems to change the page title to make them more relevant for searchers but it does not work in Turkish language. I have never tried Rich Snippet Tool before, I knew that but this site is a financial news site and there is no review or rating on it. Could you please give an example for this. Thanks in advance!

[William.Lau]

It is working.

Please see screenshot below.

http://screencast.com/t/BJIQx16J

Give Google some time to crawl and update.

[William.Lau]

When did you change it? This can take some time depending on how often Google crawls your site.

You could try using the rich snippet tool in Webmaster Tools to perhaps see what Google sees. Or you can also fetch as Google. These can be done via Webmaster Tools.