Comments on: URL Titles

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:49:33 +0000

I think it’s complete bullcrap that google sometimes re-writes titles.

Explain to me how google is supposed to be able to better describe the contents of your page to your visitors than you can yourself?

Anyways, It’s incredible what better titles can do for your traffic and SEO.

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By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:20:59 +0000

Hi,

I have just seen this on my site. But, the URL is the same as the title (I use WordPress and they are always the same unless you manually alter things). Here is a screenshot (the goo.gl link directs to a screenshot hosted on Google image servers): http://goo.gl/pq48y

I have Google Alerts set up to tell me when my company is mentioned, this is how I found out about it.

Does it resolve by itself in time or stay like that forever?

By: Haroun Kola

Haroun Kola — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:24:54 +0000

Thanks for this post. There’s lots to consider here, and goes to emphasize the importance of the Title tag.

By: Sreejesh

Sreejesh — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:40:15 +0000

Thats something strange. I’ve seen this first when I searched for “Google Adwords tool” But then I thought it happened just for me. Thats a glitch yeah

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SEO | Pearltrees — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:45:54 +0000

[...] Google Replacing Titles with URLs (Why Titles Matter) Just between you and me, I believe that exact match query Titles are perhaps the most underrated SEO tactic. I’ve actually got some research to back that up which I’m hoping I might get to share in the future. Can’t Google Parse URLs? If you haven’t figured it out yet, Titles matter … a lot . So much so that when Google wants to return a result it will change the Title to better match the query. The reason for this is simple. [...]

By: When and Why Google Changes Your Title

When and Why Google Changes Your Title — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:14:25 +0000

[...] recently blogged about Google changing my Title tag and using the URL instead. While this particular variant was new to me, I’ve been tracking how Google changes Titles [...]

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:36:55 +0000

Hi AJ,

It was via searching for the examples you used:

[not provided keyword]

This gives me “not-provided-keyword-in-google-analytics – Blind Five Year Old”

[cut up learning]

> this seems to give me a proper title “Cut Up Learning – Blind Five Year Old”

[influence metric]

> “google-influence-metric – Blind Five Year Old”

So does seem to happen frequently.

Interesting reading what might cause it.

Might not do any harm to submit a thread in the Google Webmaster Tools forum, if it is a glitch it may well get investigated. It isn’t something I have spotted before but I will certainly look out for it cropping up in searches.

Cheers
Colin