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<title> ignored

google link not showing my <title>

         

tarr74

6:04 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hallo,
A page I did is linked by google not with the <title> I inserted, but with the ODP description.
This is pretty annoying, since that pahe is considered not relevant for the keywords i put in my <title> tag.

Some time ago it was on the first position for those keyords, and i did'nt use any spam techinque.

This is pretty strange.

LowLevel

8:36 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello, tarr74.

Nice to meet you here too. ;-)

It seems to me that Google lost the cache copy of your web page and now it's using ODP informations.

How much new is your page? Maybe it was just achieving good results thanks to the everflux "bonus" effect.

tarr74

8:18 am on Jun 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi, Low!
This is a smaller and smaller world nowadays :)
My page has been online for about one year and a half, always staying on the top of the SERPs (for some keys, of course).
I used to udate it a little every now and then, but it's more than three months that I don't change anything in that page.

AthlonInside

9:10 am on Jun 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



It is very important to make sure you <title> is inside the <head> ... </head>

Else it would be ignored.

tarr74

9:11 am on Jun 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Obviously, AthlonInside :)

takagi

9:31 am on Jun 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Google will display only the URL of a page if no cache is available. However if the page is in ODP, a description & category is printed:

In practice, there's lots of reasons that Google might not have the content of the page. There could be a robots.txt file, or the server could have been down, or we might have seen references to that page but not crawled it, or there could have been redirects, meta tags, etc. Personally, I think it's actually one of the strengths of Google that you can do a search like "Colorado virtual library" and we can return something like the first result. It turns out that www.aclin.org forbids all spiders, but Google is still able to pull descriptions from the Open Directory, for example.
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