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Google replacing all my titles
- gus_massa 13y agoDon't know the cause, but the first text in page is "Back" and it's placed just before a <h1> head. Perhaps that is confusing some heuristic. From the html file: ... <a href="../">< < Back</a> <h1>Aurebesh</h1><br> ...
- dendory 13y agoThere's clear protocols set. The page <title> is supposed to be the anchor text. Google thinks they know better, and expects everybody to adapt.
- cheald 13y agoPerhaps you missed the memo, but people have been adapting to Google for quite a while now. Google's obviously attempting to give a bit more context to link titles when they think that the link comes from a publication. Your "Back" link goes to the root of your site, which is overwhelmingly used as a "home" link that is very frequently semantically given the title of the publication. That's cool with me - trying to make their results more usable is great. I think it's a little silly to be upset with Google doing something with their index that they feel might help their users.
- vladady 13y agoGenerally, the first link in a page is a link with the site name (where the site name is hidden and the logo is displayed). Google thinks back is your site name...
- dendory 13y agoThat's the point of my post. The page <title> should be the anchor. But because Google thinks they know better, they do extensive algorithm parsing (and yes I understand the goal is to foil spammer) then come up with random crap. They test their crap against WordPress, and if all looks fine, then they call it a day.