Titles with url only

[webbie]

Hi there !
I would like to know if some people know why sometimes google takes the url as the "title" of the page. My pages are html only (no javascript...), there is text on pages, etc. Any idea ?

[martin]

Google may have found your site linked to from another one but still not crawled it.

[webbie]

yes, but this is a site that google has already visited.

[webbie]

noone knows ? Never mind..

[martin]

There's a Google update going on.

[ciml]

Martin's answer is the most likely, but it can also happen if indexing of the URL is disallowed by Robots Exclusion Protocol.

[Brett_Tabke]

If the page is not cached and a description is not listed, then the page is not "in Google" - only the link is.

Possibilities:
- Bot was unable to connect with your site.
- Blocked by robots.txt.
- Blocked by a meta nonindex.
- Network problem between Google and your sites.
- Unseen server errors triggered by Googlebot and not affecting browsers.
- Extremely low ranking page without enough inbound links and was dropped from the index one month, and the link was found added the next.

[Helpmebe1]

Interesting.. I had that with an old site, I think the hosting company was horrible, ended up pretty much giving up on that site ...I can tell you this much, our titles and everything did eventually come back though, still uncertain as to what ever happened their, thanks Brett for posting some possiblities. I will go with our servers seeing Brett did list that as a possible and we did have problems with the hosting company we had been using.

[WebGuerrilla]

Possibilities:

Google has been regularly merging data from old databases into the current database. Not sure why they would do this, but I'm involved with a couple sites where we purchased a previously owned domain name that was showing only a url title in the results.

We bought the domain, put up new sites, and got our new content indexed. This was in june. after this update, the listings reverted back to the url-only listing that existed before we purchased the domain.

Another interesting thing is the other sites that are listed on the page with our site are also listings from several months back.

[webbie]

Very interesting, thanks to you guys :-)

[Helpmebe1]

Webbie,
Good luck with that. Let us know how all turns out...