Comments on: Is Google Overriding Title Tags with Business Name? http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:46:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Greg Parsons http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-414073 Greg Parsons Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:36:49 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-414073 Could be coincidence, but when we had this happen to our site, the NOODP tag fixed it fairly quickly. I have read conflicting reports that this tag either does or does not affect the title tag. At the moment, based on our own real world situation, I’d say that it does affect the title. Our ODP title was different from our LBC title and the one that went into the SERPs was the ODP tag.

]]> By: panzermike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-412483 panzermike Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:50:55 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-412483 If Google had clear rules, then it would be too easy to make a living. We cant have that!

]]> By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-408013 Mike Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:42:58 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-408013 @Katie
At least the community was able to ferret out the reality. Between here and >a href=”http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-07-16-n24.html”>blogoscoped’s coverage of the issue it was solved in 2 days.

@SEPo
I think “shining the light” on these sorts of issues will often “encourage” Google to engage on these sorts of things.

@Terry
Although I am still left wondering where the business title tag is actually taken from. Juhn Mu implied the website not DMOZ. And I agree that the Google rules should be explicit & transparent. They demand that of us and it is the least standard that they should hold themselves to.

It is interesting to me that in my case the replacement is context and search specific.

]]> By: Katie http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-407957 Katie Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:11:16 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-407957 Hi,

We have seen this happening across a number of our clients.

I completely aggree with what you said re Google response. If we could all recieve some level of interaction and explanation it would certainly save my business many ineffective hours sharing conspiracy theories!

Thanks

]]> By: Terry Van Horne http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-407565 Terry Van Horne Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:50:34 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-407565 No discounting that he is making an effort. I know your concern is the local but IMO, anytime a SE replaces the most important part of the listing with something out of everyones control there is going to be problems. Th business listing is even more of a problem since some might not even be online or, AIUI, from cre8 aware the listing exists.

]]> By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-407557 Mike Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:09:46 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-407557 Yes John Mu seems to be a decent sort thats for sure.

Not sure if you saw this engagement: http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=71982&hl= but he was there and responding …have to give the man credit.

]]> By: Terry Van Horne http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-407556 Terry Van Horne Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:09:16 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-407556 Mike… all due respect to the engineer but he basically said that it is the site owners fault… My titles are as unique as you will find anywhere. do site search… and I can guarantee you that the title in the sitelink not only is not on the site… it’s a hatchet job and it just goes to show that putting trust in ODP… a box and dull tools comes to mind. If you will block the Description then block the title too… this aint rocket science.

]]> By: SEPo http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-407547 SEPo Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:48:36 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-407547 No probs Mike –

If only Google would do this more often and tell us straight from the horses mouth when a popular, but incorrect seo meme starts – we wouldn’t have so many conspiracy theories floating around SEO circles – which can lead to popular misconceptions like the nofollow debacle.

What I really appreciate is Google responding from someone other than Matt Cutts. I love the guy whatever anyone may say about google or him – you just know hes a genuine guy – a bit geeky but a genuine one
Jim

]]> By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-407544 Mike Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:36:34 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-407544 @SEPo

Thanks for the update. Mystery solved.

]]> By: SEPo http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/07/16/is-google-overriding-title-tags-with-business-name/comment-page-1/#comment-407542 SEPo Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:27:09 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4069#comment-407542 Update: Google’s John Mueller comments:

“We may choose to replace titles which are repeated on a number of pages or which otherwise appear to be suboptimal – that’s probably what’s happening here. To resolve that, it would be a good idea to make sure that the titles are unique, compelling and relevant to every page and that the important parts are visible in the first part of the title text. You can get some help with finding duplicated titles in Webmaster Tools under Diagnostics / HTML suggestions.”

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