Seeing URL Slugs as search result titles

[davidwaring]

I've been seeing some search results for my site that look like the first result here, where the URL slug is used as SERP title: https://drive.google.com/a/fitsmallbusiness.com/file/d/0B37y4RslpuY-a0hQYjlJQ0NxeFJicDF6RVlURFVSNFN0aGhB/view?usp=sharing

The article title (and Yoast snippet title) are both "28 Press Release Examples From The Pros", but for some reason I'm seeing "press-release-examples" in the search results. I've seen this for multiple articles, and I see it now and then with different articles. I'm aware that Google often changes the titles in search results, but it seems very weird to me that they would opt for just the URL slug here.

Thoughts? Has anyone else seen this issue? Any idea what might be causing this? All help much appreciated.

[Mustansar]

You need to rewrite your URL structure,

i reckon you to read the following post from Rend this will help you to understand this issue in a batter way. Hope you will get around of it

https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls

[davidwaring]

Given that our page is 15/15 on those best practices, I don't think link structure is the issue here – unless there's something I'm missing. The URL is fitsmallbusiness.com/press-release-examples/

Great guide, though!

[KaneJamison]

Not a problem with link structure. Doesn't appear to be a problem with code, either, from a glance just now.

The good news? Your title tags work fine for me in Google search results and I see you at #1 ranking after the image pack for "press release examples".

http://i.imgur.com/z2LTwcc.png

IMO this is probably a personalized search result problem that you're seeing, and I would guess it's limited to you unless you've confirmed it with other people outside of your company computers.

Never hurts to resubmit the URL in Search Console, either.