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    • HCGDiet
      HCGDiet last edited by

      Our title tag is "<title>HCG</span> Diet - HCG Drops - Example Weight Loss - HCG Diet Weight Loss</title>"

      But in google it is only displaying "HCG diet"

      Reasons? What can I do to fix this? I'm trying to get this fixed asap, as it is our homepage that is being effected by it.

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      • donford
        donford last edited by

        I assume that is because you searched for HCG Diet, Google is highlighting your keyword. Try searching for

        "HCG Diet HCG Drops" and see what it says.

        Hope it helps.

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        • KeriMorgret
          KeriMorgret last edited by

          JohnMu from Google gives advice as to why Google may rewrite your title tags, and Barry Schwartz has summarized it at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/023139.html. I'm thinking it may be because your title tags look a bit stuffed/spammy.

          In short, John says it may happen when:

          • Titles are particularly short
          • Titles are shared across large parts of your site
          • Titles appear to be mostly a collection of keywords

          What do you do if this happens to your titles? John said:

          One thing you can do to help prevent this is to make sure that your titles and descriptions are relevant, unique and compelling, without being "stuffed" with too much boilerplate text across your site.

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          • Thos003
            Thos003 last edited by

            The bad news: It's not you it's them....

            The Good news: Google runs it through their analytics and hopefully picks the highest CTR.

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            • Thos003
              Thos003 @donford last edited by

              And Don is correct... If I search for just HCG Diet then I get the google suggested title for hcgdiet.com, whereas I get the full title when I search for "HCG Diet HCG Drops"

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