Why does Google add my domain as a suffix to page title in SERPS?

[bjs2010]

Hi,

If I do a search in Google - for one our products on our site, our site comes up - but it would appear that google is adding our domain name as a suffix to our title in the results...

Anyone else seen this? Can I do anything about it? I would prefer it not to appear.

Thanks!

[Mark_Ginsberg]

Is your title tag well written? Is it around 60 characters? I would make sure the title tag is a good description of the page/product, otherwise Google might try to create better, longer title tags for your pages.

Can you share the URL and the search result? That will help in solving your problem

Mark

[bjs2010]

Thanks Mark - I will PM you if that's ok!

[Mark_Ginsberg]

sure - no problem

[CleverPhD]

Generally speaking, Google will put whatever they think is the most appropriate in the SERPs for your title.  It is annoying but the are doing it to "help" the user experience.

Mark is on the right track with what he is suggesting.  We had a similar issue for a group of pages on our site.  Google was showing the URL slug vs the title we had put in - that was annoying!   We just tweaked the title a bit as it was already within the normal "parameters" of what people suggest as best practices. I think the update of tags make G take another look and our tags were updated an shown appropriately within a few weeks.

It is almost like your old TVs or radios, you need to "kick em" to get them to reset and work.  That seemed to help in this case with us and title tags and SERPs on G.

Cheers!