The Snorkflingers Are Over Here Too

by Dave

This is another test post.

I’ve been testing over on Teach My Children because I’m having problems getting the page titles to show up in Google searches.

I’ve entered some unique post titles in order to have no competition when I go to search for the term. In theory my post should show up first in the results, and it does, but the problem is it doesn’t show up in the ‘Title’ of the search result. It shows up in the next line where the description normally is, and the site name is the title. Of course this isn’t much good if I want to get a decent position in the search engine results, and I do, so I need to fix this.

There are lots of variables but as far as I can tell, the set-up for Teach My Children is the same as Selfish Blogger, and with Selfish I have no problems.

I had started to think the problem was with Thesis, but I updated to 1.6b and that didn’t resolve the problem.

I own quite a few sites and and I’m starting to see the same problem with rest of them – all except this site.

I even have this problem on a site that uses frugal Theme, so it’s probably not the theme.

This site (Selfish) is hosted with JustHost and all of my other sites are with Dreamhost.

An expert is something I am not when it comes to these things, I only really half know what I’m talking about, but I’m now leaning toward the idea the my host is the problem here.

I’ve written this post as filler just so that I’ve got something to post and test.

What I’m expecting is that this post will show up failry quickly in a search and the title will be where the title should be, and not in the description.

If it’s not I’ll probably cry.

Here goes.

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Selfish

That’s it. It’s there already. How many minutes?

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2 Selfish

This was post was published at 2045 and it took only 4 minutes for this post to appear in the search results – and with the title where it’s supposed to be too. Hurrah.

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3 Clark Kent's Lunchbox

works in the States too… well, in case you cared. Hurrah?

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4 Selfish

Thanks Ron, it’s good to know! :-) The US is the demographic I’m trying to annoy with my nonsense. LOL

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5 Patricia

test post looks good – I crashed on my blog and lost my captions thing a ma bob and comment luv and was just running funky…my IT person stayed up all night on a Sunday night before work and school today….take her to England and she will help you when you are falling apart :)

I am testing putting a picture of myself on my blog today? Only one person knew it was me!

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6 Selfish

Technology is the best thing ever until it goes wrong. Finding the fault is a real pain. It’s good you have someone to do that for you.

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7 Barbara Swafford

Hi Dave,

Aren’t those tests fun? Or at least when they work?

I saw your comment on Patricia’s blog and had to come by and check up on you. It’s good to see you’re still blogging and having fun for funny titles.

See you again soon……

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8 Selfish

Hi Barbara,
I popped in to see you a couple of weeks ago – I was a little late, but it was the post about you retiring from NBOTW.

Testing is fun, but I’m no nearer to solving the problem on the other site. At least I know this site works! :)

Good to see you Barbara!

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