Google Does Not See Title Tags

[bulkin]

Hi guys, as it was pointed out to me at the Conference during the Interactive Site Reviews, when you put site:my website name into google, it shows over 500 indexed pages but for most of them G only shows as URLs (without the <title> tag)... do you guys have any suggestions?

thanks so much in advance! :)

v

[bulkin]

hi guys,

just wondering, should i rephrase my question or is my question ridiculous? or has no one experienced it before?

Thanks much :)

[oddsod]

Have you tried a site:http://yoursite.com vs a site:http://www.yoursite.com i.e. site:http://yoursite.com -www?

[Coop99]

This same thing happen to me with a few of my pages. Google would only show the url in the results, but not the title or description from that page, not even text content off the page.

A week later when I checked two of the pages had title and description and the other page did not show one until a week after that. Now they all are back to normal.

My suggestion: wait until a fresh crawl and see if it changes after a little bit of time! It did for me!

[Reid]

Url-only listing means the URL's are in the index but have not been crawled yet. A different googlebot does this. Wait for the deep crawl.

[MoveyourwebSEO]

And deep crawl, if I'm not mistaken, comes once or twice a week - its name is Googlebot 2.1

I noticed one thing - if you make great changes - add more outbound links or change content - deep crawl visits you more often.

[bulkin]

thanks so much guys!

the problem is that those pages have been online for over a year... since google is having difficulties crawling the content, i guess i'll have to rethink the way i'm linking to those pages.

thanks again for your replies! :)
val

[Weboptimiser]

Hi,

Validate your site at "http://validator.w3.org/". It might be the site structure which cause the problem. And Goodlgbot find difficulty in finding it. You can check all the tags.

[Atticus]

Neither Google nor Yahoo are valid according to [validator.w3.org...]

[bulkin]

thanks guys,

i ran my site through the validator and it found a lot. i did freak out, but then i tried validating Google and saw (just like Atticus points out) a lot of stuff also. my site does have a complicated table structure but i'm in the process of moving all css & js into separate files to make it easier for crawlers to get to the content. hope that's going to help!

:)

V