Title tag not supported?

another glitch?

[keyplyr]

I reported in an earlier thread [webmasterworld.com] the latest Google update was indexing old, non-existent pages along with the new titled pages despite 301s. This remains true, at least for my site.

Now, I see that instead of my website title, Google (and all of it's franchises) are displaying my server's name and IP number atop of my website's description. Very strange.

This is not something that is benneficial to my traffic. It looks confusing and does not give the user an accurate reflection of the search result.

I sure hope things get straightened out. My hits are down a strong 20% even though my SERP ranking has improved.

[rjohara]

That's an odd problem. Here's a pure speculation: assuming it's the site in your profile, I'd be suspicious of the syntax of the PICS label that appears right before the <title> element. The page does validate, but that double-quote within single-quote syntax is odd. Since there doesn't seem to be any other obvious cause, I'd take out the PICS label and see what happens in a few days.

[pmac]

I don't think that would be the cause. I have the exact same tag and no trouble for me.

<woops> Actually I mispoke. The tag I use is not the same. </woops>

[edited by: pmac at 3:23 am (utc) on Nov. 4, 2002]

[keyplyr]

Thanks for the input rjohara, but as pmac says, it's not the PICS labelling; although I do agree it's odd. And thank you for checking my mark-up, but I'm 99.99% positive the issue is not with my code. This is a robot vrs. server issue, and has only just started recently: since the update.

<added> My server could have been updating account information (or whatever) and been temporarily posting their default page the last time Google did a "fresh" on me. GoogleBot comes 'round almost every day since I update a lot. Guess I'll find out in a day or two. </added>

[keyplyr]

Day 3 of no title. Hits continue to drop - this is killing me. Isn't there anything I can do to get Google to correct this?