Greetings All! I'm a long-time reader first-time poster, so please be gentle. I noticed recently that Google has figured out how to remove the stuff from title tag stuffing. Examples A search for soap wire in google has a the SERP title Soap Wire, but the page has a title tag: <title>SoapWire | Newswire for the Natural Personal Care Products Industry</title> A search for princeton in google has a the SERP title Princeton University, but the page has a title tag: <title>Princeton University - Welcome</title> (Also check out the refine results section, that's new.) Other examples: ebay, yahoo, etc. The Big Question So does anyone know how Google is doing this? Or more importantly, how to manipulate it?
Possibly an example of Google using DMOZ titles instead of webmaster titles. Hard to know for sure without the links.
The reason why I originally asked is because I have a site that is displaying a comma after the title. Sure enough DMOZ has the comma. Seems overwhelmingly conclusive.
that's not totally true. I have a page that the real title and the title I submitted to DMOZ is different, Google picks the title on my page instead of the title i used in DMOZ
I don't think anyone is claiming Google ALWAYS uses the DMOZ titles - but it sometimes does. There have been a few examples of this reported lately.
Depends on the search term - if the kw appears in the directory title it usually displays the directory title, if not, it usually displays your title.
I thought I noticed that too...... But I remember seeing it not being used in all instances..... Google hasn't taken a new DMOZ dump in a very long time.... They must be so frantic fixing this bigdaddy change that it's the last thing on the list of todo's cause it has been a very long time....
Most of the people at DMOZ are so uptight I have a suspicion they haven't taken a real dump in a long time either