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Old 10-10-2006, 04:16 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Hi there

I've been noticing Google using the meta descriptions from sites in the SERPS. Also seeing ALT tags from picture-style nav links appearing in the 'title' of the listings (seems to be supplemental listings). Also seeing SERP titles that are simply the company name and not the actual web page title as in the past.

Has this been going on long and um... what's up with that??
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Old 10-10-2006, 04:38 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Google pulls the site description and title from DMOZ. When there's no entry of that website it's using the meta description tag, if that one is too short it's using content from the website itself.
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Google pulls the site description and title from DMOZ. When there's no entry of that website it's using the meta description tag, if that one is too short it's using content from the website itself.
How short is too short for google?
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How short is too short for google?
About 100 chars and you're fine.
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Google will use either a DMOZ description, your meta description, or some content from the page as the description that shows below your link in the results. The choose based on what they consider to be the most relevant to the query so your meta description could show for one query and some content on the page for another.
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Hi there

I've been noticing Google using the meta descriptions from sites in the SERPS. Also seeing ALT tags from picture-style nav links appearing in the 'title' of the listings (seems to be supplemental listings). Also seeing SERP titles that are simply the company name and not the actual web page title as in the past.

Has this been going on long and um... what's up with that??
Iv'e seen Google show Page title tags with just the company name, when the actual pagetitle has keywords in it, normally I think this is when someone has had there company name in once and then changed it, if you type in the company name Google will still show the old page title tag even if it is a year after they have changed it.
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You can stop Google from using DMOZ by adding a "meta robots noodp tag" and then if your meta description is more that just a few words long, Google will use it as the description. I have noticed the other SEs like to use it too.
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Well Google does use the tags for showing it in the SERPs.

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