Site title in Google search results

  • My site appears in Google search results with XYZ headline. But when i go to the site the actual headline in the top of browser is ABC. Where does Google grab the headline for search results and how can i change it?

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  • Go to your Google Webmaster tools account. You can find crawl errors, indexed pages, etc. there. You can get the incorrect URLs deleted there.

    It’s from your meta title. If you get a plugin like Yoast SEO, you can select the option “force re-write titles” and this will prompt it to override any previously existing meta titles that are cluttering up your site. Sometimes it’s added to the theme by accident by a person who didn’t know any better, and that one is somehow taking precedence.

    Now, if you have a site that is older, it’s also possible that Google just hasn’t crawled it recently to get your new titles. You can prompt a crawl by using Webmaster tools, as Krishna suggested using. If that’s all that was going on, you should see the new meta title within a few days.

    Thread Starter ericnyc

    (@ericnyc)

    I have not changed the title in a long time.
    Is it possible to manually change meta titles?

    Thread Starter ericnyc

    (@ericnyc)

    Also, i just looked at source code in the browser and checked meta and title tags and none of them have the phrase that is showing up in google results

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