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    • AlanMosley
      AlanMosley last edited by

      Probable because Google does not like it.

      Ice Cream Maker | Ice Cream Machine | Ice Cream Makers

      It looks like you are trying to span serps

      Having mutiple keywords in a title does not give each keyword the full value, each keyword gets a a fraction of the full value. If you image the title has a value of 100, you can give one keyword 100, or 3 keywords 33 each.

      I noticed that most of your other pages have titles that ae too long, they are being truncated. and are also diluted.

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      • irvingw
        irvingw last edited by

        The only title tag /indexing technical problem I see is the title tag on the homepages.

        How long ago did you update these, sometimes it takes Google some time to make the update.If this change was made less than a week or so ago then be patient

        Alan is right though, only one instance of "ice Cream and Duvets on the title tag, not three or it looks like spamming so I would re-write them.

        Resubmit your homepage URLs to Google Add URL and they will crawl them quicker.

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        • MarieHaynes
          MarieHaynes last edited by

          Do you have a DMOZ listing?  Sometimes Google takes the title from your DMOZ listing.  I'm not sure how to do this with the all in one SEO plugin, but you can edit the html of your header to add this:

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          • AlanMosley
            AlanMosley @irvingw last edited by

            He has 83 titles that are too long

            An example

            Maxi-Matic EIM-506 Elite Gourmet 6-Quart Old-Fashioned Pine-Bucket Electric/Manual Ice-Cream Maker | IceCreamMaker.com

            Better of putting these in the alt tags, that i notived are unused.

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            • trickyzoo
              trickyzoo @MarieHaynes last edited by

              What does adding that code do?

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              • AlanMosley
                AlanMosley @MarieHaynes last edited by

                Do you mean description or Title

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                • MarieHaynes
                  MarieHaynes @trickyzoo last edited by

                  What it does is tell the robots not to use the data that they find in DMOZ otherwise known as the Open Directory Project.  So, in other words, No, Open Directory Project (NOODP).

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                  • KeriMorgret
                    KeriMorgret last edited by

                    Google will often chose its own title to show in the SERPs for your page, depending on the query.

                    http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html

                    http://www.seroundtable.com/google-titles-match-12779.html

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                    • trickyzoo
                      trickyzoo @AlanMosley last edited by

                      Title. Do a search for Duvet sets and you will se me at #21 but the title is not correct.

                      I am not on DMOZ.

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                      • ShaMenz
                        ShaMenz @KeriMorgret last edited by

                        I agree with Keri that this is appears to be a case where Google is extracting text from within the body content and creating its own Title for the page.

                        The most important thing to remember in this situation is the signal Google is sending you by doing this.

                        The message is: Your chosen Title does not accurately represent the content on the page.

                        There are two ways to fix this:

                        • If your content is well optimized for the keywords you are targeting, Rewrite the Title
                        • Check whether the content on the page is adequately optimized and rewrite so that it better addresses the content in the Title. (Don't do this one without careful thought).

                        Hope that helps,

                        Sha

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