Why Won't Google Update My Title?
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I have waited plenty of time. Google has cached several pages with the updated title placed in the <title>tags.<br /><br />However search results, continue to show otherwise.<br /><br />I read the following (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en)</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>If we’ve detected that a particular result has one of the above issues with its title, we may try to generate an improved title from anchors, on-page text, or other sources. However, sometimes even pages with well-formulated, concise, descriptive titles will end up with different titles in our search results to better indicate their relevance to the query. There’s a simple reason for this: the title tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, fixed regardless of the query. Once we know the user’s query, we can often find alternative text from a page that better explains why that result is relevant. Using this alternative text as a title helps the user, and it also can help your site. Users are scanning for their query terms or other signs of relevance in the results, and a title that is tailored for the query can increase the chances that they will click through.</em></p> <p>The reason I want to change my title, is because there seems to be a relevancy issue (as pointed out my other community members here.) Google is having trouble recognizing understanding what our site is about.<br /><br />So instead of a title that reads, "Felix And Fingers: Dueling Pianos" (as Google continues to use) I prefer "Dueling Pianos - Felix And Fingers"<em> </em> I don't believe Google is recognizing us correctly as a dueling piano company.<em><br /></em>Google doesn't seem to like that. Any idea why or how I might go about getting this updated?</p></title>
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I would be willing to bet your issue is with authority and that is why it is being corrected. I have heard (cannot remember where) that in the algorithm that Google uses for titles it normalizes things. Like if I were to make a title called "Jets and the Joan" and constantly used "Joan and the Jets" in the page, it would normalize the title. If you look at everything on the page and off the page you are using the version that Google is showing, except for your title. I think more than likely that is what is overriding the title of the page. You would need to change things like your facebook, text on site, some OG data, ect to try to work it out. It might be more trouble than it is worth unless you are thinking this is killing your click through. Also one thing you might try as an experiment is to add more words like "A Dueling Piano Duet - Felix and the Fingers" and see if the extra words cause them not to match the other version and normalize it.
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