Google dropping Title / Description...Why?

[ProfitsCC]

Does anyone know why Google sometimes drops the title and description from the search results?

Let's take an example: <snip>

All Top 10 search results show both the title and the description... except for my site <snip>

For almost a month that this situation exist, and I don't know how to correct it.
Apparently, Google is not penalising my site - otherwise, it wouldn't show up amongst the top 10 search results...

What am I supposed to do, in order to correct the problem?

Thanks.

Armando

[edited by: Marcia at 4:30 pm (utc) on Feb. 27, 2003]
[edit reason] No URLS or specifics, please [/edit]

[sharpie_79]

that just means that the url was picked up but the page itself was not indexed..
this can happen if freshbot picks up the page..

[curlykarl]

Hello Profits

You will need to remove your URL, it is not allowed here.

And 'Welcome to Webmasterworld'

:)

[JudgeJeffries]

Personally when I looked pre-snip I thought it was most distinctive, one on its own, an air of mystery, and I would have clicked just to find out. No worries, lots of nosey parkers like me about.

[WebWalla]

I think it's somethig to do with the way the www site is redirected to the non-www site, or vice versa. The poster probably wants to think about how he is redirecting now and how he was before. Google's cache for the non-www site shows a 301 Permanent redirect page, yet when you go to the current www site it redirects to this very page, which currently displays OK.

[jimbeetle]

I noticed the same thing on one of my sites. Was going to wait until after the next update to see if there were any changes, but since ProfitsCC started this I might as well chime in now.

Many, many of this site's pages have lost titles and snippets and cannot find a common thread to explain it.

--Most, if not all, of the pages had previously been indexed and appeared 'correctly' in the SERPs.

--Some pages in same directories have titles and descriptions, some don't.

--Some pages that are redirected from a 301 have titles and descriptions, some don't.

I have been changing many pages from using a Frontpage 'include page' for navigation to calling an external js file. Until about this morning the js folder was blocked by the robots.txt file. I want to check what happens after the next crawl and if this had anything to do with it.

We shall see,

Jim

[ProfitsCC]

Hi,

Googlebot indexed Profits.CC last week and I am glad to realize that title and description are both back to 'normal'.
Fortunately, the previous redirect did not penalize the site.

As a matter of fact, for the phrase 'business ideas', it jumped to #4 - ahead of 2 million sites. I just can't believe it yet...

For keyword 'profits', it jumped to #7 - ahead of 5 million sites.

What about your site, Jim? I mean, what happened after the last Googlebot crawl?

Armando

[tfelice]

I have had the same thing happen with one of my sites. I added 78 pages to the site at the end of January. About 1/3 of them are indexed correctly, the rest do not show a title or description.

All of the pages were uploaded on the same date. All of the pages are from the same template, so they are virtually identical (except for different content on each page.

I have asked about this on other forums and no one seems to have a definitive answer as to why this occurs on google.

Incidentally, all of the pages were indexed correctly by alltheweb.