Wrong title tag
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Hi, need help.
I notice Google always , on all my pages (about 30), index wrong title tag.
If I try to use "my-keywords-here | my_company_name" Google always index "my_company_name: my-keywords-here" and can't figure why is that
The problem is always only with "my-keywords-here | my_company_name".
If I use "my-keywords-here - my_company_name" or "my-keywords-here my_company_name" (without sign | ) everything is fine
Is anybody having any reasonable explanation?
Is anybody having Joomla page with "my-keywords-here | my_company_name" in the title and have indexed by Google like that?one example is www.ferometal-prerada.hr
Thank you
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Hi Mirko,
I think you'll find that Google (almost) always re-writes titles with the brand name at the front when it's the homepage.
For that reason, I always write homepage title tags with the brand name at the front.
Are you seeing other pages on your site having the title re-written in SERPs?
Cheers,
David
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I have seen this a lot too, Alick300's response and reference to Cyrus Shepard is true. This happens with Wordpress and other types of websites as well, and it is not exclusive to Joomla. In short, the meta title you input is not 100% guaranteed to be what exactly shows up in a SERP, although it does influence it heavily. If Google thinks that your business name (or site name) is more helpful to the user if it is on the front-end, it will display it as such on SERP results.
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Hi,
"Google will use your search query to populate the description with what it thinks is relevant. So different search queries will pull different descriptions into Google results for the same URL. So what you see isn't what every searcher sees for every query"- Cyrus Shepard
Google's attempts to match snippets to queries don't always work the way you'd like.
Thanks
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