: Homepage is indexed in Google with a different page title! I'm having the latest WordPress and it's been long that I'm seeing my website's front page is being indexed with a different page

@Lengel546

Google already announce in their Webmaster Support that


If we’ve detected that a particular result has one of the above issues with its title, we may try to generate an improved title from anchors, on-page text, or other sources. However, sometimes even pages with well-formulated, concise, descriptive titles will end up with different titles in our search results to better indicate their relevance to the query. There’s a simple reason for this: the title tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, fixed regardless of the query. Once we know the user’s query, we can often find alternative text from a page that better explains why that result is relevant. Using this alternative text as a title helps the user, and it also can help your site. Users are scanning for their query terms or other signs of relevance in the results, and a title that is tailored for the query can increase the chances that they will click through.


May be it's for the better to increase impressions and clicks. Try to search some different terms and check your site title.

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@Sherry384

I think the logo's alt="Web Design in Dubai" is creating problem. Could you please change this alt text to something natural and then try submitting the home page to Google index through Google Webmaster Tools (Fetch as Googlebot) and check whether it changes the title in the SERP?

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@Becky754

This one is simple. Your title tag is too long!

This is a common mistake that I detail in these answers:

Title in Google does not match <title> of document

Title tag different from title appearing in Google?

There is a limit of 512 pixels at least for Google. I cannot speak for Bing. Any wider character such as W, G, D, or X will take up additional room. Some SEOs will recommend not going over 70 characters. But I suggest if you want to control how your site looks in the SERPs that you do not make a title tag too long or too short. In this case, the character limit could be 45-55 total for any title depending.

While we are on the subject, your description meta-tag should not be any longer than 170 characters. I suggest shorter, but long enough to be engaging. As well, either drop the keyword meta-tag or limit it to just a smaller list of keywords. The keyword meta-tag is only used by Yandex and in your case, far too long!

You can really control how your pages appear in the SERPs if you pay attention to not only the length, but how Google uses the pipe character and responds to a shorter title tag length, the description meta-tag, and SERP link alternatives such as the h1 tag. It can be a bit of an art, though not complicated. You just have to aware.

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@LarsenBagley505

It happens to a number of websites, not just yours.

Google likes to keep a cache of web pages so that users can have an option to see the real site or if the real site breaks down, the user can choose to view Google's cached copy of the site.

What you can do is:


Resubmit your sitemaps
Change site settings in webmaster tools and make google crawl more pages a second instead of its typical 0.33/second
Use the no-archive meta tag to prevent google from caching your pages, but this method will require you to use more bandwidth from the server your website is hosted on.


See: searchengineland.com/google-explains-the-noindex-nofollow-noarchive-nosnippet-meta-tags-10595 for more info on the tag.

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