Hi, I hope i am posting this thread in the right section ... I am currently stuck on this problem for the past two days and i cannot find a solution so i am asking here if someone can help me with this so here is my problem : When i edit my meta tags and title tags everything work fine and when i analyse my page with SEOquake or free analyser online everything show up properly as what i typed in. BUT when i get fetch and indexed by google all my Title Tags have an extra word at the end of the title. Every page that is indexed by google show up like this (Example) : My Title Tag - Web Design About Us - Web Design Contact Us - Web Design So the first part is all right since this is what i want and what i typed in but the last part the Web Design i dont know where it come from since i did not added this on the title tag and i dont see the Web Design part on my page source and on the SEOquake Diagnosis. So i am wondering how i can remove this and what is going on here. I can tell that i have 25 Pages in total and there is only 5 pages that do not have the Web Design part in it. For your information i am using Joomla 2.5 I dont know if i am clear and if i provided enough information but if you have any question to better understand my issue please ask me. Thank You
Without seeing what your off the shelf garbage (joomla) is outputting for markup we can't possibly help you... Though, WHICH meta, and are you sure you're not confusing the TITLE tag with the useless META[title] that absolutely NOTHING gives a flying purple fish about?
My website is www.duvalmarketing.com and here are the results on googe : https://www.google.com/#q=site:www.duvalmarketing.com Thank You Guys
Holy ****snacks.... that's some badly written 1990's style garbage... Fixed width, px metric fonts, presentational markup -- Some of those subpages are outright terrifyingly bad. That said, it seems like half the links on that Google results page are 404, the ones that resolve don't seem to have anything that would be appending that information -- have you done something silly like make/submit a sitemap or create a ODP (dmoz.org) entry for the site? An out of date sitemap or odp entry would explain search still listing pages that don't exist and the 'title' for those pages not matching the actual pages.
What do you mean by badly written 1990 style garbage ? Are you here to help me or just trash talk ? I have a sitemap and i have indeed sent it to google with the webmaster tool but my sitemap is updated and this is not the issue. I seem like the ( Web Design ) Part is considered like my Site Name and they add it to each page title but when i go in my administration panel the sitename is Duval Marketing and the option is not enable. I did not create en dmoz entry either. Thanks
Sorry if that seemed harsh, but bad code and bad practices make errors or undesired behaviors (like this one) almost impossible to diagnose... when I see attributes like BORDER that have no business in any code written after 1997, nothing remotely resembling semantic markup, tags like ARTICLE around lone IMG tags, ID's on elements that there's no legitimate reason to ever even HAVE ID's (like LINK), redundant overstuffed keywords META, TITLE attributes on elements that should never have them (like IMG), endless pointless 'classes for nothing', screen style being sent to "all", resizing images on the page, two dozen stylesheets totalling in excess of 100k, 16k of markup doing 8k or less' job, half a megabyte of javascripted nonsense, multiple scripting libraries KNOWN to not play well together (mootools AND jQuery?) ... just how do you expect people to react? You're wasting a megabyte in roughly 70 files to transmit less than a dozen content images and 1k of plaintext -- making it a laundry list of how not to build a website before we even talk the fixed metric fonts, fixed width layout, illegible color contrasts, images for text, and host of other design /FAIL/. or even the HTML 5 bloat, improper use of HTML 5 tags, and HTML 5 structural rules that browsers are barely capable of handling, much less search engines... ... and that may sound harsh, but it's the truth... and most of that, as I said at the top, just makes it harder to fix anything. There's an old-school programming mantra: The less code you use the less there is to break. Though none of that SHOULD be contributing to the problem, it's hard to say for certain that's not what's going on as any of that could be screwing with things. It's why - again to be brutally frank and honest with you - I would throw that entire mess away and start over clean using semantic markup, separation of presentation from content, a RECOMMENDATION document instead of DRAFT, and paying attention to accessibility guidelines and norms. As I often tell people, there is little if anything worth salvaging from that. Realistically I see no reason for the home page of that site to exceed 192k in around 20 files -- one fifth the total file sizes and one third the file count. It basically reeks of slapping together a stock template, some off the shelf mods/plug-ins, and blindly hoping it works. Usually when people do that, the result is... well, what you have here. I also suspect a PSD jockey who doesn't know enough about the web to be designing for it may have been involved. Do you have a copy in the root? Could we see the sitemap? If it's malformed it could cause all sorts of issues. Also, have you changed the pages within the past few months? We may simply be seeing lag ... I really would suspect Google is seeing something different or paying attention to something other than the site itself -- mostly the pages that are listed on Google which 404 are a dead giveaway of that; they're either listed in a faulty sitemap, or Google hasn't re-indexed the site lately. Which 'lately' could be anywhere from 48 hours to 6 months depending on how often the site is updated and how much traffic it gets.
What you're seeing in Google is their practice of sometimes presenting "enhanced" page titles based on the user's query. So what you see when you use the "site:" operator is not necessarily what users see in the search results. They use what their system finds to be most appropriate - generally a broad topic or the company name. It has nothing to do with whatever flaws your HTML mark-up might have. The only way to help prevent it is to create more elaborate or descriptive <title>s. See http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/better-page-titles-in-search-results.html
Good to know... though it's odd it's adding words that don't even exist on most of the pages it's adding them to.