Parallax and Title Tags

[Sika22]

I've noticed an issue with our site, which uses parallax on multiple pages.  Here is an example:

If you search for About SQL Sentry, you get the correct title tag and description

If you search for SQL Sentry Careers (which is on the about us page) it appears that Google has made up a title tag and description for it.  Is there any way to force a separate title tag for a part of a parallax  page?

[adamxj2]

Hello!

The description that is being generated is dependent on the search query. When the page is the most relevant to the search, you get the title and meta you have set. When you search the "careers," you get the relevant title and meta for that search. So even though the results is bringing a person to the same page, Google is giving the most relevant excerpt for the search query. You can only have one meta description per page so there isn't a way around this.

I don't think this is much to worry about though…it looks good in the SERPs. The title for the "SQL Sentry Careers" shows up as "Career - SQL Sentry" with relevant meta data underneath.

Hope that helps!

[AlanBleiweiss]

I agree with @adamxj2

Parallax DOES cause problems for SEO when you're only serving one URL that can be optimized. In your situation, you're running independent URLs, and going directly to them you can see at the source code level that the page Title is unique to that page.

Because of that, I am pretty confident that as @adamxj2 said, it's an issue attributable to the separate issue of where Google changes page Titles and meta Descriptions that are being displayed based on their algorithm's assessment and the belief that method is better for the searcher.

[Sika22]

I totally agree but the issue is we have sections of our site we now can't control title tag and descriptions for because we use that anchor jump menu all over the place.  That was what I was trying to get to the bottom of.  I did find a jquery solution for it that we may try.  Thanks everyone!