Homepage meta title not indexing correctly on google
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Hello everyone!
We're having a spot of trouble with our website www.whichledlight.com
The meta title is coming up wrong on google.
In Google it currently reads out
'Which LED Light: LED Bulbs & Lamps Compared'
when it should be
'LED Bulbs & Lamps Compared | Which LED Light'Last snapshot of the page from google was yesterday (5th April 2016)
Anyone got any ideas?
Is all the markup correct in the ? -
Hi Matt,
It's still not resolved to be honest.
All though it seems likely that Google are just overriding our Meta Title, although we still don't know why they've chosen that rather than our one.Cheers
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Hi TrueluxGroup! Did this get resolved? We'd love an update.
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Even though you update your title tag on your page, Google from time to time changes the title tag in the search results. If they decide that there's a better title tag that gets more clicks, then they're going to change.
Unfortunately there really isn't anything you can do about Google changing your title tag. You can, though, look at the title tag that Google is using and see if you can determine how they are coming up with that particular title tag. For example, if your site is using a breadcrumb trail, there's a good chance that they may pick up on that and change your title tag.
What's also frustrating is that Google will also change your title tag in the search results for certain search queries--I've noticed that they'll change it for one keyword but not another.
It does sound like you have sorted this out, though, I have run into issues where the site's theme conflicts with other SEO settings. Glad you figured it out.
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Hi TrueluxGroup
Thanks for your help. I have just found out that the theme's SEO is conflicting with Wordpress SEO. I have now changed this and hopefully should of sorted this problem.
Your comment was helpful - thanks
Claire
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Hi Truelux Group
The title and description has been entered in the theme's SEO where it states to update the website's title and description. I can see this in the source code in row 19. Maybe there is a problem with the theme not updating the title and description correctly? I will get someone to take a look at this thanks.
Claire
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Hi Claire,
I just took a look at Strateji.co.uk and there appears to be no meta title or description on the homepage of the site. Might be why your having trouble, unless I've misread something.
Anyone else seeing the same?
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Hi mr Trelux & Claire,
`php the_post();if( is_home()){?><meta< span="">name="description"content="YOUR DESCRIPTION"/>php } elseif (is_single()){?> php the_excerpt();?>" /> php }?></meta<>` That is de code i use for it. With Wordpress here are handy tools like Yoast but I see you are not on WP. Good luck!
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Hi
I am having the same problem. I updated my title weeks ago and Google is not picking it up. I have been advised that 3rd party cache plugin's can prevent this updating and also that Google can choose to display your title in another format that it sees fit if it wishes.
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