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14-May-12 10:02
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TruthConquers TruthConquers's avatar Rank: bronze
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If one has put in your Title and Description tags, is there any reason why a search engine would not be able to show this information

A site:yourdomain.com shows the Title and Description, but searching for a specific term brings up a rather plain yourdomain.com.

It is rather perplexing and I cant find a Google Webmaster Tools.
14-May-12 18:38
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chrishirst chrishirst's avatar Rank: gold
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http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624

Google will change the SERP title an snippet IF their page analysis system determines that other text found in the document provides a better match for the users query.


A site: special search will more often than not return with the title element wording as the result title and the meta description content as a snippet. If you want to see what MIGHT be shown from a users search, use the site: search with the search term appended to it.

eg: site:webmaster-talk.eu linking

Result: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awebmaster-talk.eu+linking

[Edited by chrishirst on 14-May-12 18:40]

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15-May-12 06:46
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TruthConquers TruthConquers's avatar Rank: bronze
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Ok but for instance when I type in "shinymanstudio.co.za".

I get this;

Title
url
Description.

For another site, I have used the meta tags and when I type in the site "yourdomain.org" (index page)

I get this;

url.

Now for other pages like "About Us" ect, it shows up the Title and Description.

The site is fairly new, should I wait a month or two and then if the problem persists try something else ? It is just bizarre that it crawls the rest of the pages fine, but the index page comes up as a plain url, which is not very helpful.
16-May-12 13:44
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chrishirst chrishirst's avatar Rank: gold
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Google has Several datacentres, each with several server clusters, each cluster has many servers in it and they are not all synchronised with the same data, and depending on which server answers your query the results may (WILL) be different.
http://webmaster-talk.eu/en/component/kunena/computer/1424-computers-google-style


http://webmaster-talk.eu/en/articles/10-website-marketing-and-search/search-engines/4-rankings-and-the-google-dance

Especially for a new site.

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16-May-12 13:47
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chrishirst chrishirst's avatar Rank: gold
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Oh and URL only titles are called Partially Indexed Pages (PiPs)

It means that Google "knows" the URL exists but have not yet fully indexed the document located at that URL.

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18-May-12 09:34
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TruthConquers TruthConquers's avatar Rank: bronze
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Wow, thanks for the epic insight. Thought I was going insane for a while.

Keep well!
19-May-12 04:37
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chrishirst chrishirst's avatar Rank: gold
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Thanks for the inspiration:

http://webmaster-talk.eu/en/cat-quick-tips/28-qt-pips

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