Problems with changing the page title on Wordpress Site...
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The website is http://www.masterpieceinteriors.co.uk/
I'm not sure why the homepage title is reading 'masterpieces' in Google but looks fine here. There seem to be 2 versions of the homepage coming up in google - you can see them both by searching 'masterpieceinteriors' and then 'masterpiece interiors'.
Some help would be hugely appreciated!
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Like Brian and Wayne say, Google does reserve the right to change title tags, and they do so even with big brands like Apple. Here are two posts about that:
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html
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Thanks for the quick reply, Wayne.
I understand that it's positive that my website is coming up for variations of the brand name...
My question was really about why the homepage is showing up with 2 different page titles for different searches. It's been over a month since I changed the title for www.masterpieceinteriors.co.uk but it still doesn't appear in Google results. But I can see the new title showing up if i search 'masterpieceinteriors'.
Any thoughts on the duplicate titles?
Thanks
Liam
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Well, Matt Cutts has mentioned that Google reserves the right to try to figure out a better title for you page when the one you have chosen doesnt help users. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NlJiLDn9-38
Perhaps you are being subject to this? Try adding the company name to the end of the title and see if that fixes it.
Brian
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Liam,
Are you referring to the site link results that appear when you search the two different versions (masterpieceinteriors & masterpiece interiors)? If so, it's my best bet that this simply has to do with Google picking up your url address 'masterpieceinteriors' with no spaces in one search, and 'masterpiece interiors' with a space in the other search.
It appears that Google simply recognizes both versions for the same brand, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing at all.
If this doesn't fully answer your question, please let me know, but I don't know that there really is a problem with what you have described.
All the best,
W
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