Different Google Searches return different titles for the same page

Different Google Searches return different titles for the same page - Google Search Console is a free application that allows you to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that Google may encounter as it crawls and attempts to index your website in search results. If you’re not the most technical person in the world, some of the errors you’re likely to encounter there may leave you scratching your head. We wanted to make it a bit easier, so we put together this handy set of tips about google-search, , , to guide you along the way. Read the discuss below, we share some tips to fix the issue about Different Google Searches return different titles for the same page.Problem :

This is a hypothetical example of an actual problem. I hope it's clear.

When I search Google for dogs I can see my website homepage http://dogs123.com.au with the title "Dogs a mans best friend!".

If I search for dogs australia I see my website homepage http://dogs123.com.au with an old page title "Dogs blah blah". Clicking through on this result gives the up to date, current page with the proper title.

i.e. for two different searches, returning the same result, one returns the correct page title, and one returns an old page title.

Why is this happening? Is it something on my side or Google's?

Solution :

Google reserves the right to change a title they are displaying in search results if they feel it'll be more relevant to the search than what is actually set in the meta <title> tag. But if you've changed the title recently it's possible your searches are going to different data centers with an older index.

If australia is actually part of your search term I would test both phrases on http://www.google.com.au/ and see what the results are.

This is most likely a relic of a previous site crawl - give it a month or so and it should disappear. Have you set up Google Webmaster Tools? If not, do - it will give you all sorts of info about the way Google has indexed your site.

If the issue about google-search, , , is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.