Weird Title and Description on Search Results

Title and Description on Search Results

[clarksc3]

When I look at my websites in the Google serach results or Backlinks results, the title and descriptions sometimes have my HMTL Comments. Such as "Your Browser does not support Inline Frames..." Why would it pull that into the description of my website? Should I remove all comments in my HTML like this, so it cannot display them?

Also the Descriptions vary depending on the keyword wused to search for my Website.

Thanks

[troels nybo nielsen]

> Why would it pull that into the description of my website?

Sounds like you have sent it a page with that text. A spider from a search engine may be regarded as a rather primitive browser. Perhaps your "real" page is not accessible for googlebot.

> Also the Descriptions vary depending on the keyword used to search for my Website.

They always do. Google show text snippets with the search term.

[percentages]

>"Your Browser does not support Inline Frames..." Why would it pull that into the description of my website? Should I remove all comments in my HTML like this, so it cannot display them?

No, replace those areas with a non-framed version of your site. A nice looking page containing as many of your keywords as possible would be my suggestion.

[Dolemite]

I'm having a similar problem with a very recently-spidered website that's only showing up on -in at the moment.

The problem is most prominent with an allinurl: search...in normal searching the HTML code tends to clear up, though not always.

I know the pages are OK. Even the cached version appears correctly, so this is google's problem, not mine.

[troels nybo nielsen]

> this is google's problem, not mine

I'm not completely sure about that. Might the page shown in Google not be from another visit than the one your logs tell about: a visit when your website had technical problems of some kind?

[Dolemite]

I'm 99% sure google screwed the pooch on this one (again).

These pages haven't changed since google first spidered them (I've been watching closely, since this is a new site), and as I said, google's cached version always shows proper HTML and most normal searches don't produce this error, even with pages that show the error with the allinurl: or site: search.

Its like page content/html has leaked into the title tag, but only in SERPs. All these pages are very straightforward HTML, with CSS doing all the heavy lifting with the design. All these pages also validate 100% to w3 standards. I didn't even plan or try for that...it just works out sometimes.

[Dolemite]

Just an update to this situation, they seem to have fixed their little boo boo on both -in and the other datacenters.

No more code in SERP titles. Congratulations, Google. I'm ready to invest.