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Google changing URL description?

Google yields correct URL, wrong description

         

Skipster1

4:46 pm on Nov 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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When I used Yahoo to search for "some keyword" one of the first of listings came up with a befitting url but the title description said something totally unrelated to "some keyword".
I clicked that link anyway and found what I was looking for.
Why would that strange, and totally unrelated to the site and the topic description come up?
It is totally misleading.
Thanks

[edited by: heini at 5:05 pm (utc) on Nov. 23, 2002]
[edit reason] removed specifics see sticky mail at top of screen / thanks! [/edit]

heini

4:58 pm on Nov 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hi Skipster1, welcome to WebmasterWorld!

I have really no idea whatsoever - looks like the editor has messed up?

fathom

5:00 pm on Nov 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Google cache shows :

These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: something. net

Possibly cloaked.

pshempel

6:10 pm on Nov 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



From looking at the html source your using frames and because the top frame is the only thing indexed you will see only what is in the top frame.
In some ways frames can actually be your friend and can also be your enemy. Always make sure that you have a non-frames version of your pages.
BTW your page has a blank non-frames version just add content between the noframes. I usually put my links leading into the site in this area with a small amount of information for the search engines to use as description within the noframes, normally no more than twenty words. Doing this helps non-frames enabled browsers such as search engines and a few older command line web browsers.

Hope that helps.