Google and Title Tags

[CondorCreative]

I'm just wondering how long it takes google to update title tags in their listings?

When my site was "coming soon", I simply had the title "Condor Creative", but now I have been launched for a couple of weeks and have since changed the title tag google still hasn't updated it; they have found all the other pages on my site, yet still have not updated the title tag on my home page.

Can anybody provide any insight on this?

Thanks!

[Jon W]

It depends on how popular your site is and such things. If your site has had the title tag "coming soon" for a while, then google will be in no hurry to go back and crawl this page. If you are a website that gets millions of hits per day, then they will be crawling your site everyday. You can request a page be crawled in google webmaster tools, you are probably best to do that, to get it moving along.

[PaulThomas]

Originally Posted by CondorCreative

I'm just wondering how long it takes google to update title tags in their listings?

When my site was "coming soon", I simply had the title "Condor Creative", but now I have been launched for a couple of weeks and have since changed the title tag google still hasn't updated it; they have found all the other pages on my site, yet still have not updated the title tag on my home page.

Can anybody provide any insight on this?

Thanks!

Hi Brett,

If you create a sitemap.xml file and upload it to your website's public directory, you can then use Google Webmaster Tools to tell Google to update your sitemap and re-index all the links. You can create a sitemap here for free: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ - You can also download a free desktop (PC) sitemap tool with a few good features from Wonder Web Ware .com - (I'm not affiliated with either of those sites, use at your own discretion).

Also, in website design, avoid creating "Under Construction" pages for your clients. Simply adding a client's business name and details along with contact details can get them ranking high on Google before you even start work on the website. And, be sure to add the most useful Title and description tags first up so that these are indexed.

If you do create an indexable holding page make sure you have a good deposit, or else your client might say, "we're happy with all the calls we're recieving from the holding page, so leave it at that".

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Paul

[CondorCreative]

Thanks guys. I know Google has been crawling my site as it has indexed my other pages and shows crawl data within Google Webmaster Tools, just was wondering why it had not updated my main pages title.

I will get a sitemap created and see if that helps.

Also, in website design, avoid creating "Under Construction" pages for your clients. Simply adding a client's business name and details along with contact details can get them ranking high on Google before you even start work on the website. And, be sure to add the most useful Title and description tags first up so that these are indexed.

I do try and avoid "Under Construction" pages in preference of "Coming Soon" pages, but I never bothered with doing up the site title and meta description until the site goes live as I know Google doesn't really like sites with no content or these "under construction" pages like you mentioned.

[PaulThomas]

Originally Posted by CondorCreative

I do try and avoid "Under Construction" pages in preference of "Coming Soon" pages, but I never bothered with doing up the site title and meta description until the site goes live as I know Google doesn't really like sites with no content or these "under construction" pages like you mentioned.

"Coming Soon" has to be coded anyway so why not have "Here We Are!"? Google doesn't care if the site is one page or 1M pages as long as the content available is relevant to searchers.

One page websites with a product/service overview, location and contact details perfom better than some structured sites. Do a search on Google for "Google Page Speed" and you will see what I mean.

I have clients with one page sites that only have a logo, contact details, service area, what they do and good titles and description tags. They come up on first page results for their keywords and search terms.

It's rather funny really, because sometimes all a prospect really needs is a logo, phone number and an address, not an encyclopedia.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Paul

[vilson]

Hi mate,

Normally it takes 7 to 10 Days for the New website, once it is Live and submit it to the search Engine.

Second time it is not fix, the Crawl rate for my website is Vary, some times 4 days and some time 7 days, But not more then that.

You can use webmaster and sitemap.xml, but Google Bot will not Follow Every time that..

hope it will help...