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Google talked about page titles in search results a bit on its Webmaster Central blog
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earlier this year. I’m not sure it helps to explain much about this exact situation, but it does
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We use many signals to decide which title to show to users, primarily the <title> tag if the
webmaster specified one. But for some pages, a single title might not be the best one to
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title specified by the webmaster in the HTML. For example, a title using simply the word
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As Barr notes, some of Google’s algorithm changes for the month of May had to do with how
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Google handles titles as well. These included:
T ags Trigger alt title when HTML title is truncated. [launch codename "tomwaits",
project codename "Snippets"] We have algorithms designed to present the best
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the current title is so long that it gets truncated. We’ll only do this when the new,
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Efficiency improvements in alternative title generation. [launch codename
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usage and a more focused set of titles actually shown in search results.
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codename "otisredding", project codename "Snippets"] When presenting titles in
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title specified by the webmaster in the HTML. For example, a title using simply the word
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“Home” is not really indicative of what the page is about. Another common issue we see is
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when a webmaster uses the same title on almost all of a website’s pages, sometimes
PageRank exactly duplicating it and sometimes using only minor variations. Lastly, we also try to
replace unnecessarily long or hard-to-read titles with more concise and descriptive
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As Barr notes, some of Google’s algorithm changes for the month of May had to do with how
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Google handles titles as well. These included:
T ags Trigger alt title when HTML title is truncated. [launch codename "tomwaits",
project codename "Snippets"] We have algorithms designed to present the best
article directories backlink ba possible result titles. This change will show a more succinct title for results where
the current title is so long that it gets truncated. We’ll only do this when the new,
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