Question about Homepage Title

[One2]

Hi there, I recently made a change to the title URL for my site, and it changed how Google displayed my sitemap. Before it showed the most common sites, and now it simply links to 4 of them below the domain URL without descriptions. I have attached images below which shows my problem. I hope this is the right section for this question.

Thanks!

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[Nigel_Carr]

Hi One2

the only problem I can see is that your title is too long. There is an ellipsis ... at the end of the search result (three dots) which means that the title is over the maximum number of pixels. (Usually about 580 or 70 characters.)

Try shortening, fetching Google and see if that helps.

I know of no other reason why it should do that.

Regards

Nigel

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

I would look into the advise from Nigel but also realize that Google is often tweaking and testing with the look and feel of the search results. Lately I've seen myself more of the classic links again but for a period I was only seeing the second screenshot with the links directly below the result.

[Dr-Pete]

I notice one of the screenshots shows the "People Also Search for", which suggests it was a bounceback. Were the two queries exactly the same?

Sometimes, dropping expanded sitelinks can be a quailty issue, but sometimes, as Martijn suggest, Google adjusts their view of the query itself. Expanded sitelinks tend to signal a brand-like intent (or a dominant intent, in Google's view), and Google may have simply turned the volume up or down on this.

You could try to shorten or tweak the title back, of course, and it's relatively harmless, but my gut feeling is that this is more on Google's end (I could be wrong).

[One2]

Thanks! It seems like Google reverted it automatically. I adjusted the title length which it seems to have helped as well.

[Nigel_Carr]

Great stuff - glad we could help!