URL instead of Title Tag

Google's SERPS not helpful

[edavid]

I have a few dynamic sites whose dbase driven pages finally started showing up in Google a few months ago.

However, Google is not indexing their title tags (they are all properly formatted, in the header tags, and optimized for rich keywords and phrases).

Instead, the URL of the page shows up in the SERPs like so:

www.example.com/default.asp&id=4&action=detail&partCode=PB1
Similar pages

When it should read:

[ product title] from My Site
Product Description
www.example.com/default.asp?id=4& action=detail&partCode=PB1 - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

Any ideas why Google would grab the page but not the information in the title tag or use any snippets?

It appears to only be half-indexed and has remained so for a few months now.

This is keeping hundred of pages out of their index that are valid pages. Thanks.

[edited by: ciml at 9:18 am (utc) on July 23, 2004]
[edit reason] Examplified [/edit]

[edavid]

ciml, thanks for correctly examplifying this. sorry for any inconvenience.

[yowza]

There are lots of threads on this problem.

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[edavid]

Thanks. I tried search a variety of keywords, but I think the dbase was just too large to turn anything up for me.

[edavid]

OK. Looks like there's not much I can do internally; can try to increase PR and speed up server; but ultimately it looks like Google's had a problem deep crawling for many months now (seems to have started in Feb and people just got plumb tired of posting about it).

[Powdork]

You will always have better luck going to google and searching within webmasterworld using your keywords. Try this on Google.
site:www.webmasterworld.com url only listings dynamic

[edavid]

Wow, you're right. Thanks for the tip!