Thank you for the awesome thread martinibuster but the thread simply doesn't justify my query. Even if keyword is dead on organic which I don't believe is, it should not be a case when I'm doing a search command with the exact phrase used in the title tag.
For example: I used this search string site: xyz.com + "the exact phrase" but still Google pops out the same ridiculous title.
Am33n_GrG, to the contrary, it's the failure to return an exact phrase in the title that makes your problem an extremely interesting situation. Note this discussion from late 2010....
Exact Long Tail Phrases in the Title are Not Ranking Well Aug-Oct 2010 https://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4193570.htm [webmasterworld.com]
On some sites, it was widely observed by members here Google did not rank some pages for their own titles, or for the keywords in their titles, in quotes. Often they were targeting long tail phrases or exact variants. The sites or pages I saw that were affected were generally also either low quality, or had extremely low quality links, or had material that wasn't particularly original or useful. In one case, there was a content funnel that led to entrapment at the bottom of an affiliate funnel, with no where else to go.
Unfortunately, in the first example I was pursuing in the above thread, I got inaccurate feedback from a member who thought that the site's meta description was part of the page content... so while my comments were describing situations I'd seen, they weren't describing the member's situation, and the discussion didn't pan out.
You mention phrase in the meta description as well. Is the text, and, more important, the meaning of the text, included on the page?
At the end of the 2010 thread, I make some observations which might be helpful to you, and which I believe illustrate the principle behind the point that martinibuster is making now.
Here's an excerpt from my post...
Google appears to be fudging on some pages it does return for exact title searches, but overall I'm seeing that it's insisting that the page returned by the title search in quotes should essentially satisfy the intent of the query... but not always exactly match the title literally.
I should add that this was the beginning of many anomalies to come. I'm convinced that in 2010 they had to do with phrase-based indexing, just coming in, which has been refined since then by five more years of statistical analysis.
Since you're failing on an exact phrase search. I would check out both mb's thread, and also the old 2010 thread, which I think had some useful things to say... and then reread your content very critically.
I'm curious what your thoughts are at this stage.
