Google has mounted a problem the place some inner pages wouldn’t present the correct Website title within the Google Search outcomes. This has been a problem since a minimum of December 2023 and is now resolved.
What modified. Google up to date its site names documentation right this moment to take away the “recognized difficulty” part that learn:
In some instances, a web site title proven for a house web page could not have propagated to seem for different pages on that web site. For instance, instance.com is perhaps exhibiting a web site title that’s totally different from instance.com/internal-page.html.
We’re actively working to deal with this. We’ll replace this assist web page when this difficulty is resolved. Within the meantime, if your own home web page is exhibiting the positioning title you like, perceive that it also needs to seem to your inner pages finally.
Here’s a screenshot of that part:
Nonetheless see the difficulty. You should still see this difficulty on some websites, that’s as a result of that it might take time for Google to reprocess all the pages on a particular web site. Google wrote within the up to date documentation, “Not seeing your most well-liked web site title for inner pages? If your own home web page is already exhibiting your most well-liked web site title, bear in mind to additionally permit time for Google to recrawl and course of your inner pages.”
Website names nonetheless could produce other lingering points, as we covered here.
Website names timeline. Right here is the timeline Google posted of the evolution of web site names because it launched in October:
- October 2022: Website names for the area stage have been launched for cell search outcomes for English, French, German and Japanese.
- April 2023 (I’ve this as March): Website names have been added for desktop for a similar set of languages.
- Might 2023: Website names are supported on the subdomain stage for a similar set of languages and on cell search outcomes solely.
Controlling web site names. Google again in October 2022 explained that Google Search makes use of a variety of methods to determine the positioning title for the search outcome. However if you need, you should use structured knowledge on your own home web page to speak to Google what the positioning title needs to be to your web site. Google has particular documentation on this new Site name structured data available over here.
Why we care. If you happen to nonetheless see points with a few of your inner pages not having the right web site title in Google Search, you might wish to attempt to get Google to recrawl and reprocess the web page. Utilizing the Google URL Inspection instrument could assist set off that course of.
In any other case, Google will replace the pages over time, because it naturally reprocesses the pages.
