Meta Description and Title tag not changed after a week

[Intersite]

I've changed my meta description and title tag on the sites homepage and its been over a week and i've seen no change in Googles cach. Does this usually take some time?

[goodroi]

Have you checked your log file to see if Google has crawled your site? Also have you checked to see if Google is pulling your site snippet information from DMOZ or some place else?

[Intersite]

Yes googlebot visits the site the last visit was today. I'm not Dmoz listed either. Its funny because the meta descriptions for my other pages have changed but not for the homepage. Is this some kind of penalty?

[Intersite]

ah right after i posted I checked the a search and discovered that the changes applied to domain.me/index.php but the changes do not show for domain.me

this is confusing.

[Intersite]

anyone know why this is?

[goodroi]

That is because technically speaking these are different URLs and Google sees them as different files.

example.com is different from example.com/index.php and also it is different from example.com/index.html. You should look at how your site is setup to determine which file needs to be changed.

[Intersite]

Thanks for the reply. I find this strange that it updates cache to the com.index.php instead of the .com because the .com is where all the links lead to. Im still waiting for a cache update to the .com.

[tedster]

You can be a bit relaxed about the cache because what Google shows on the public "cached" link is not the same data that they are using to generate rankings.

Still, I'd take the steps to redirect "index.html" to "www.example.com" [webmasterworld.com]

[Shatner]

Similar issue. Changed my page titles and meta stuff to fix some accidental duplicates. Google crawls my site heavily every day, but they still haven't been updated at all. It's been a week.