Wrong Link Title Appearing in Search Results

Discussion in 'Google' started by misterwebmaster, Feb 25, 2010.

  1. #1
    I manage a site for a friend: toddseavey.com . It is running on Wordpress 2.0.9 on a shared remote server.

    problem: doing a search for Todd Seavey on google comes up with this text for the top link:

    Don't Wait! Order The CHEAPEST MEDICATIONS NOW!!!

    it should be something like "ToddSeavey.com"

    the link goes to the correct toddseavey.com url .

    for good measure, searching for "seavey" on google ends up with the site showing up a few entries down on the first results page, without any fake headlines

    this is not what should be showing up. The live site doesn't show this, either to plain eyes or in the source code. Google's cache of the site doesn't show this spam headline. I can't find it anywhere.

    The site is linked to and crawled by a lot of russian spam bots, but I can't control that. About two days ago we had some problems logging in, as admin password had changed and my administrative login got deleted, but this was fixed, with no apparent change to the site.

    The site is checked daily and there has been no strange headlines like this appearing. Also, I checked search results for "Todd Seavey" just a few days ago without these spam reuslts. The spam headline on google does go to the right site, toddseavey.com

    So how can google be showing that headline information when the live site AND their own cache don't show it?

    Thanks.
     
    misterwebmaster, Feb 25, 2010 IP
  2. soopoot

    soopoot Member

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    I've seen the same problem on one of my sites. On the homepage of your site, do you link to this page with the anchor that it's showing as the title? Or do any external links have the anchor that's showing as title tag?
     
    soopoot, Feb 26, 2010 IP