• Hello all,

    For some reason my homepage page title is showing different on google search results, I have waiting for Google to revisit my site but it’s still showing the same page title.

    Google: TGF Security: Home
    Should be: Home | TGF Security

    Does anyone know how I can change it to how it should be?

    Website: https://www.tgfsecurity.co.uk

    Thanks in advance
    James

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  • Hello!

    Sometimes Google changes the titles if it thinks its version is better and more relevant than what you actually provided.

    While we can’t manually change titles or snippets for individual sites, we’re always working to make them as relevant as possible.

    Also, “Home” shouldn’t be in a title.

    Page titles should be descriptive and concise. Avoid vague descriptors like “Home” for your home page, or “Profile” for a specific person’s profile.

    Read more about creating quality titles on their site – https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en

    Thread Starter doggax

    (@doggax)

    Thanks Blade, did you have a look at my source code to see if something else is changing the page title? My main concern is that it has : instead of | and it looks out of place because all the other links are | and “Home” and “TGF Security” are the opposite way around compared to the other page titles?

    Please see this link to compare the home page title with the other page titles: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww.tgfsecurity.co.uk&oq=site&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60j69i61j69i57j69i60j69i65.1481j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    Thanks
    James

    Thread Starter doggax

    (@doggax)

    I’m the sort of person that likes everything right and the home page title being different to the other page titles is really annoying me ??

    Yes, I know how it feels, because I’m the same too, but after years of working with websites, WordPress, SEO, etc., I’ve learned to let some things go because, trust me, they will drive you nuts.

    I took a look at your code, and the title seems ok. Either Google likes that title displayed in its own way, or it might need a Fetch as Google from the Search Console Tool.

    If Fetch as Google doesn’t do the trick, it means that’s the way the Google algorithm wants it, even if it has no better relevance; it just switched it and made it look ugly.

    I believe it messes with that particular title because it has “Home” in it (they also specifically said they don’t like that), and in yours, the word “Home” is displayed first, and the algorithm might think: “Hey, users don’t want to see Home first, because it’s irrelevant, so let’s switch so they can see TGF Security first”.

    The others are not switched because they contain at least one word that’s relevant and it has to do with content found on the page, like News, Services, About. “Home” doesn’t have anything to do with the content on the page, because the page is not about a home or homes, and so on. That’s what is triggering the issue for that particular page, I believe.

    I went through stuff like this myself. It didn’t want to display half of a title as I wanted it for nothing in the world, until I ended up changing it to something else.

    I don’t believe there’s something you can do, except changing the title, since it’s not optimized for SEO anyway. People will search for “security services in Birmingham”, for example, so you need to rank for those keywords, and the first place you want to put them and one of the most important places is in the title.

    Thread Starter doggax

    (@doggax)

    Thanks again Blade, I have now changed the Title and Fetched as Google hopefully it will change soon and put my mind at rest ??

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