Confused - Different Page titles GOOGLE

[Tony Hardy]

Hey everyone.

I'm a bit confused here, I've ran through the basic SEO stuff as recommended by Google, meta titles, title tags, descriptions etc and uploaded the site tastytreats.org.uk

However, when I search tastytreats.org.uk, the title appears to be Candy Cakes with some lorem ipsum placeholder text as a description.

Now, I've recently set up what Google recommended and 'submitted' the site to Google, I think. It picks up the right site, but with the wrong titles.

Do I need to wait for Google to crawl(?) my site again?
When I search the exact page title and description etc, it doesn't even bring it up, so I'm thinking maybe it's not in the Google database (if that's what they have) yet?

Cheers
Tony

[squeezee]

Not for me?
It has a Tasty Treats title and some reasonably sensible text.

[Corrosive]

I get the lorem text if I search; site:tastytreats.org.uk to see all the crawled pages. Your going to have to wait for Google to crawl it again or you can speed that up by going to Webmaster Tools >> Diagnostics >> Fetch As Googlebot and then submitting the home page URL and then adding it to the index.

BUT!... Before you do any of that you must sort out which version of the domain you are optimising for. I can get to the site through both tastytreats.org and tastytreats.org. You need to fix it to one or the other through .htaccess and redirect or Google will dilute your Search Engine juice.

www.tastytreats.org/index.html should also redirect me back to the URL tastytreats.org or the same dilution happens.

Search engines are fun huh?

[Tony Hardy]

Hey Corrosive.

I don't think the client owns just .org? I get a random spam looking page when I go on .org and it only works through .org.uk, which is the domain the client has bought.
I think I've already tried to add the URL to the index on the Webmaster Tools.

Tasty Treats - Sweets, Pop, Biscuits and Confectionery Shop - North East England should redirect you to where? Tastytreats.org.uk? How do I go about doing that?

Search engines are really fun, and I just love spending my time playing with their overly complicated systems :(

[Tony Hardy]

Also, Squeeze, I've just seen your post there.
Really?
Are you googling tastytreats.org.uk (all one word) or tasty treats.org.uk, because I find that they're both bringing back different results, while neither have particularly sensible 'snippets' as such.
About foam shrimps and black bullets? We have a sensible one wrote and included in the meta tags so hopefully Google will crawl on by and update it.

[Corrosive]

Hey Corrosive.

I don't think the client owns just .org? I get a random spam looking page when I go on .org and it only works through .org.uk, which is the domain the client has bought.
I think I've already tried to add the URL to the index on the Webmaster Tools.

Tasty Treats - Sweets, Pop, Biscuits and Confectionery Shop - North East England should redirect you to where? Tastytreats.org.uk? How do I go about doing that?

Search engines are really fun, and I just love spending my time playing with their overly complicated systems :(

Yes, you are right, sorry. I wrote that post in a rush this morning. I am talking about .org.uk and the same applies. You need to look at .htaccess to redirect either www. to non-www. or vice versa.

[Tony Hardy]

Ah right, I get what you mean there.
What do you recommend? Is there a better option of www. or non-www?

[Corrosive]

Ah right, I get what you mean there.
What do you recommend? Is there a better option of www. or non-www?

Nope, it actually doesn't matter a jot as long as you choose one. Personally I stick with www. for all the sites I build but that's just out of habit and so that I don't get confused by using different ones for different sites.

[Tony Hardy]

Well, I've managed to redirect it to the www. but I didn't use htaccess.
There was a redirect option the control panel of the website which has done the trick. I'm assuming this is just a front and will have modified the htaccess for me?

Now what do I do, I'm optimising the www. files?

[Corrosive]

You did use .htaccess... You just didn't know it

Now look at redirecting /index.html to just the plain URL. Should be option for that in cPanel as well.