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texcited
04-15-2004, 12:01 PM
Hello Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone knew how to tell google to use your title tag instead of link text for your link text in the SERP's? To elabaorate, my DMOZ listing has a different title in it than my title tag on the site itself, www.gardenoutfitters.com and the SERP's on google show the link text from DMOZ instead of my title tag. Hopefully there is some code to put in the meta tags that I'm unaware of. I hope that my explanation does not confuse you all. Thanks for any tips or advice.
-Texcited

adore
04-15-2004, 03:39 PM
The link text will be changed only if the description in the directory will be changed - the anchor text of the link in the directory.

sudhani
04-16-2004, 06:02 PM
Its surprising to see that there is no cached version of your homepage.

The title it shows could be of an older version of your website.

You have a PR of 6. And google should visit you regularly. Do you have any idea when googlebot visited your website??

NileStone
04-19-2004, 12:04 PM
Hi texcited :
You have a very interested Robots.txt file

the second line contains ( Disallow: * ) and this very small line tell all the search engines bots to go away and not indexing your site and because of that you have just 2 pages indexed the main page and the 404 error Page :);)

texcited
04-20-2004, 11:59 AM
Its surprising to see that there is no cached version of your homepage.

The title it shows could be of an older version of your website.

You have a PR of 6. And google should visit you regularly. Do you have any idea when googlebot visited your website??

The title it's showing is from my DMOZ description, and I would rather have it show my sites title instead. Google does visit my site regularly, ussually at leasy every other day. But lately it has not crawled very deep, maybe 18 pages or so. I can't seem to figure out whats wrong with this site in terms of SEO, all my other sites are doing quite well in the serps. I try doing the same types of things here, and no luck.

texcited
04-20-2004, 12:03 PM
Hi texcited :
You have a very interested Robots.txt file

the second line contains ( Disallow: * ) and this very small line tell all the search engines bots to go away and not indexing your site and because of that you have just 2 pages indexed the main page and the 404 error Page :);)

What pages are you seeing this Disallow: * tag on? To my knowledge it shouldn't be on any of them, and I couldnt find that tag on any pages. Thanks,
-Texcited

NileStone
04-20-2004, 01:56 PM
in the robots.txt file, this file used to tell the Search engin robots where to

http://www.gardenoutfitters.com/robots.txt

texcited
04-20-2004, 02:26 PM
in the robots.txt file, this file used to tell the Search engin robots where to

http://www.gardenoutfitters.com/robots.txt

Man if that was a snake it would have bitten me! I wasn't thinking of that file for some reason, and I was just looking at the sites meta tags. Thanks a million for pointing that out to me! I think that just may be the problem. Thanks everyone!
-Texcited

NileStone
04-20-2004, 02:33 PM
just wait untill the next G Update and you'll be surprised ;)

PLzzz. remove all the Disallow: Line

also try to read this

Google Information for Webmastershttp://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html