My Google title isn't showing what is entered
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Help! On Yahoo and Bing, if you search "Chant Real Estate" the full title that I've entered appears in the search listings:
Chant PA Real Estate | Real Estate PA | Pennsylvania: Find PA Homes for Sale
But in Google it only shows "Chant PA Real Estate". This title was what the original developer used for their site and it's been almost a year now that it's been under our control. Any suggestions?
The URL is www.chantre.com.
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Great, glad to help!
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Thanks Maximise that was exactly it...not "human" enough and too long
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Ah yes, thank you. I fixed the length on the other pages earlier but not this one.
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No problem. Sorry, another thing to check is that the title isn't too long, I think it needs to be less than about 70 characters.
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Thank you, I've changed this and will see what happens
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I have seen them do this with over optimised title tags, especially where there are several terms separated with a pipe symbol. When this has happened to me I have rewritten them into one or two natural sounding sentences using my key phrases - Google then started showing the correct title.
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UPS, I wasn't expecting that
I don't think I have an answer in this case.
Cornel
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It's been almost a year and it hasn't changed. It's correct if you fetch, if you check cache:www.chantre.com, and if you check source code, but it doesn't display correctly.
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Hi Darlene,
Don't worry google will index your title, sometimes it take longer than expected.
I had to wait a week once, but google did index my title in the end.
Have you tried 'Fetch as Google'?
Cornel
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