Google is Showing Website as "Untitled"
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My freelance designer made some changes to my website and all of a sudden my homepage was showing the title I have in Dmoz. We thought maybe the NOODP tag was not correct, so we edited that a little and now the site is showing as "Untitled". The website is http://www.chemistrystore.com/. Of course he didn't save an old copy that we can revert to. That is a practice that will end.
I have no idea why the title and description that we have set for the homepage is not showing in google when it previously was. Another weird thing that I noticed is that when I do ( site:chemistrystore.com ) in Google I get the https version of the site showing with the correct title and description. When I do ( site:www.chemistrystore.com ) in Google I don't have the hompage showing up from what I can tell, but there are 4,000+ pages to the site. My guess is that if it is showing up, it is showing up as "Untitled".
My question is.... How can we get Google to start displaying the proper title and description again?
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Hi everyone,
Check out the post on Search Engine Roundtable about this at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-untitled-14665.html. JohnMu from Google commented on the Google+ link to this at https://plus.google.com/u/0/107945426404682361496/posts/ASCFeBZitHj.
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I'm seeing more and more questions like this after searching, and not seeing any of the "experts" signing off on it. Motivated me to post a blog on this, if you have one you'd like me to link to for helping to confirm the issue, let me know and I'll gladly do it.
And good luck slangdon, didn't realize until just now that you were with Bankrate.. I've used that site loads of times!
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Corey, I saw this yesterday and posted it on my Google+ page however I tried your search and it is still this way even today... You would think that Google would have fixed that blooper already.
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Actually, here's a 3rd example, on google.com itself:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/14/picture62u.png/
Got this when searching 'keywordtoolexternal' (because for some reason I don't bookmark stuff like this).
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As kerry said this is the seond case of no title today, it maybe a problem at google.
I also notived you have a meta title tag also, what with that?
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There's one other post in Q&A that is having this same problem too. You might want to look at http://www.seomoz.org/q/search-snippet-ignors-title-tag
Edit: I can't get "untitled" to display when I do either a site search on your domain or search for the brand name.
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Hi Corey,
Thank you for responding. It has been like this for a week and has been spidered a few times since. This problem is driving me nuts!
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This is odd. I don't see the 'https' when doing the site: search, but I do get the 'Untitled' result for your homepage when searching for your brand name. How long ago did your designer make the change? This seems like the kind of problem that could just go away on it's own... I can say that your source really doesn't look out of line to a point to where it should warrant this sort of issue.
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