Change google description of my site

C

Craig

I have built my first site and have learned enough to get it to work, however
one thing that is really annoying me is that when I search for my site in
google I get the Title of my site reading one of the lines from my bottom
border. I have tried to change the <TITLE> tag and also edited the <META
name= description > tag but to no avail. Can someone tell me what I'm doing
wrong and how I can get the title to be the site title and the descrition to
be like the text on the homepage.
Thanks for your help
(e-mail address removed)
 
A

Andrew Murray

You need to put your title of the page between <title> and </title> tags.
You can also do this when you save a page the Save dialogue has a field for
the page title. Just Save As the page with the same name, then insert the
title in the "title" field (near the bottom of the dialogue box).

Search engines don't require the meta description & keywords tags as much
these days, as they index the whole page.
 
C

Craig

Andrew Murray said:
You need to put your title of the page between <title> and </title> tags.
You can also do this when you save a page the Save dialogue has a field for
the page title. Just Save As the page with the same name, then insert the
title in the "title" field (near the bottom of the dialogue box).

Search engines don't require the meta description & keywords tags as much
these days, as they index the whole page.



Thanks for that Andrew but Ihave already changed the code as you describe (see below) and Google still doesn't change the title and description when I search for the site
Click to expand...
<head>
<meta name="keywords" content="Sun, Sun Microsystems, Sun Servers, Sun
Workstations, Sun Storage, Independent Sun Microsystems Resller,">
<title> ServeCentrix - An Independant Sun Microsystems Reseller </title>

<meta name= "description" content="An Independent Sun Microsystems Reseller
specializing in new (in box) servers, workstaions, storage arrays and related
components. >

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

It may take weeks or even months for changes to appear in search engines.
 
T

Tina Clarke

Craig said:
I have built my first site and have learned enough to get it to work, however
one thing that is really annoying me is that when I search for my site in
google I get the Title of my site reading one of the lines from my bottom
border. I have tried to change the <TITLE> tag and also edited the <META
name= description > tag but to no avail. Can someone tell me what I'm doing
wrong and how I can get the title to be the site title and the descrition to
be like the text on the homepage.
Thanks for your help
(e-mail address removed)
Click to expand...

If your site is servecentrix.com

Then you need a doctype and to put the title in first position. To learn
more about this see
http://mvp.wiserways.com/tutorials/doctype/ note also you have a horizontal
scroll. When developing a site it's always a good idea to request a
critique.

From what it says on your site you are developing it, so you have probably
been changing things, Google will have spidered it. You just have to wait
till it spiders it again with your changes.

If you put www.servecentrix.com into the google search page
http://google.com (or the google bar if you have it) - not the address bar
of the browser.

This page will appear (may wrap)

http://www.google.com/search?source...G,GGLG:2005-30,GGLG:en&q=www.servecentrix.com

Press Show Google's cache of www.servecentrix.com - Your homepage was last
spidered on the 18th and at that time you had not added content to the title
tag... to see this

right click on the page that appears and choose view source scroll down to
where you can see the title tags ... see there is nothing there...

wait for the next spider... and will update.


At the moment you have

<meta name="keywords" content="Sun, Sun Microsystems, Sun Servers, Sun
Workstations, Sun Storage, Independent Sun Microsystems Resller,">
<title> ServeCentrix - An Independant Sun Microsystems Reseller </title>

<meta name= "description" content="An Independent Sun Microsystems Reseller
specializing in new (in box) servers, workstaions, storage arrays and
related components. >

What you should have is the following (I'm presuming you did not mean to mis
spell reseller (Resller) and workstations (workstaions) also Independent
(Independant ) (always check spellings) (also they should be in the
following order with title in first position always.

<title>ServeCentrix - An Independent Sun Microsystems Reseller</title>

<meta name="keywords"Sun,Sun Microsystems,Sun Servers,Sun Workstations,Sun
Storage, Independent Sun Microsystems Reseller">

<meta name="description" content="An Independent Sun Microsystems Reseller
specializing in new (in box) servers, workstations, storage arrays and
related components">

Your title should also be your h1 tag.

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Classes

This link includes an overview of the free classes, along with a link to
class registration.

http://www.gnc-web-creations.com/seo-optimization.htm

BOTH the SEO Class and the Marketing Class are required. One must join both
BEFORE one's membership will be approved.

hth Tina

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T

Thomas A. Rowe

A DOCTYPE is not requirement on any site.

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