: Google displaying incorrect title text in search results? I googled my name (justin lardinois) and, unsurprisingly, my in-development website, justinlardinois.com, came up in the search results.

@Sherry384

Okay. This can be expected. There is a link to your site that Google followed therefor your site's home page is indexed regardless of the robots.txt file. It is something that Google has been doing for a while that many including myself do not agree with. There should be nothing indexed in any search engine that respects robots.txt.

Here is what Google says: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en
To quote:


We use a number of different sources for this information, including
descriptive information in the title and meta tags for each page. We
may also use publicly available information—for instance, anchor text
or listings from the Open Directory Project (DMOZ)—or create rich
snippets based on markup on the page.


I agree that your site should not appear in the SERPs. But since it does and you do not allow search engines to access to your site by blocking it with robots.txt, they are not picking up your title tag or anything from your site at all. Instead, Google is picking a title for your site based upon some other resource.

The resource is likely: www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDUQFjAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fdictionnairenobi00vors%2Fdictionnairenobi00vors_djvu.txt&ei=g6S8VNb8B5etyAS3_YCADA&usg=AFQjCNGQLGtdGVQGEN1irOnkqBtXCRseXA&sig2=hHyskgGVQn1-1KEO_aEEqw
...or...
www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDwQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.loot.co.za%2Findex%2Fhtml%2Findex2379.html&ei=g6S8VNb8B5etyAS3_YCADA&usg=AFQjCNEAXVmJJW5vLlGaWuP3XU223pUoHQ&sig2=sbFC_hYD8rTipa2FwyLWRA
...or...
www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEAQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2F194.97.159.218%2Fverlag%2Fahf%2Fhbo.php%3FF%3Dautoren%26T%3Dsuche%26buchstabe%3DJJastal&ei=g6S8VNb8B5etyAS3_YCADA&usg=AFQjCNF4eMbphgm8wh80SRpeNUpYWqa6VA&sig2=jOZCDqqHEDUn9N6jnMpB4g
...and so on where the word Schlieben can also be found.

If you search Google for justin lardinois schlieben you will find it.

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