: Searching on Google for mydomain, my domain name is shown as the page title instead of the actual page title When I search for my domain on Google, eg: mydomain.com, my site shows up with
When I search for my domain on Google, eg: mydomain.com, my site shows up with a title like "MyDomain" instead of that page's actual title.
Any clues on why this happens and how to fix it?
Edit:
This is the code from head:
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Συγκριση τιμών - Τιμές προϊόντων,Αναζήτηση και προσφορές</title>
<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105294720755057253319"/>
<link href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105294720755057253319?rel=author"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/960.css" media="all" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/screen.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/color.css" media="screen" />
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/ie.css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/js/basket.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script async type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.11/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script>
var current_url = 'http://www.seekit.gr/';
var module_title= 'index';
</script>
<link title="Seekit.gr - προσφορές" rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.seekit.gr/favicon.png" />
</head>
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According to Google:
Our algorithms generate thee alternative titles so that your page is no longer constrained with having just the one title for all the different queries your page ranks for. This has the nice side effect of making the result look more relevant to our searchers and...
On average, the alternative titles increase the clickthrough rate on the results, i.e. more traffic for you.
The tag is still a primary source for titles we show so all our advice about make them concise and useful and enticing still very much apply. Keep an eye on the HTML Suggestions page in the Diagnostics section in Webmaster Tools for title suggestions.
See also: Better page titles in search results
If the title is there then you probably have recently changed your title from mydomain.
Google takes some time to update the new title of website probability a week or more.
Is there a <title></title> tag with some content, on your page? You need to give some more information. Post the code of your site from <head> to </head>
It could also be that Google doesn't see much value in your Title-text, and chooses to show the URL since that is what was searched for.
Edit:
After testing, I see that the title is in fact displaying when searching for all sites within seekit.gr (site:seekit.gr). When searching for just the domain though, Google chooses to put only the Site Name (SeekIt). I believe this is because the contents of your <title></title> doesn't work in the UTF-8 charset. Here are two links to more information on this:
www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=768 http://www.wizcity.com/Computers/Characters/GreekUTF8.php
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