My personal friend Peter Bruce has a photography site that has never cooperated properly with Google. I set him up with a competitive title, added google webmaster tools, analytics, yahoo webmaster, and Microsoft live. I made a sitemap for him and made sure it passes all the html tests. Here is a list of the strange things going on with his site... This is the url I'm referring to www.peterbrucephotography.com 1. When I do a search for his title "San Francisco Wedding Photography and Videography" he used to come up second. Now when you do a search for that I do not see him at all! Its like he's been blacklisted? 2. When I do a search for Peter Bruce an incorrect title appears for his website. The title reads "Peter Bruce Photography" Where is it getting this title from? When I click on the "cache" button and look at the cached site it shows the correct title "San Francisco Wedding Photography and Videography | Fine Wedding Portraits By Peter Bruce" What is going on here? Please help!
It's your title in the DMOZ directory. Simply add a: <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> Code (markup): in the head of your site's html code and google won't use this title, but the one actually on the website. More about this: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-supports-meta-noodp-tag/
Never knew that meta tag existed Scripter! You're the man. Thanks for saving us, I'm going to deploy that fix now.