Updating Titles - How long do you wait for Google to pick it up... any tips?

[xoffie]

Hi

We recently trialed some new page titles which seriously helped our CTR on serps, so we thought we would roll them backwards to our other product pages, only about 5% of the SERPS show the new titles.

Do I need to change more on the page to get google to notice these changes?Or just hold on and wait?

[AJPro]

Hello!

It can take a couple of weeks (if if you have a large site) and no you don't need to change anything else for google to pick up the new title.

A tip can be to use google webmaster tools

Health -> Fetch As Google

Then submit the urls to google and "submit to index"

You can manually submit up 500 urls to be indexed and they are usually added to index within 24 hrs.

[GregFindley.co.uk]

Hold on & wait.

It sounds like the pages you're waiting on recache for are deeper pages within the site (product pages) so it's likely that they are visited less regularly by Google. You can always check the cache date with a 'cache:http://pageurl' search to check when Google last visited & cached the page.

Hope that helps.
Thanks, Greg