Google showing 3 different results for homepage
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Hello All! First post in this community. I hope someone can help with an issue I'm having with my website, 3vdental.com.
1. When I Google my brand name, 3V Dental Associates, I see one result on the front page. This result shows ONLY my brand name as the title tag...
See here: https://www.screencast.com/t/Vwq4l2Lrn
2. When I Google my domain name, 3vdental.com, I see a second result, that still only shows my brand name as the title tag, but with sitelinks showing in the results...
See here: https://www.screencast.com/t/L37hxZ8rd1xp
3. Both results above are not ideal, as they are not displaying the correct title and meta tags set within the Yoast SEO plugin.
Here's a front-end view of the site displaying the correct title and meta tags..
See here: https://www.screencast.com/t/CZS3CBja4m
Is there any way to correct this so that Google displays my preferred tags when my website is displayed?
Thanks for your help in advance!
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It's behaving exactly the way I'd expect and since it shows up in search, it's clearly indexed. When I search for "dentist, port washington" your listing is the fourth regular organic result, with your preferred title and description. So, good job!
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Thanks again.
I just want to make sure there isn't a technical issue that might be preventing ranking or indexing.
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That is apparently what Google thinks is the most useful result to return. The searcher knows the URL of the company, but maybe wants to know the name associated with it.
It's hard to tell sometimes exactly why Google does what it does. (Which is what keeps SEOs employed.)
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Hi Linda,
Thank you for your response.
But why is that when you Google "3vdental.com" the brand (3V Dental Associates) is still displayed as the title?
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The title and meta tags that you yourself post are only suggestions to Google—what is actually shown in the search results will depend on what query the searcher used to get your listing. Google tries to make the results as useful for the searcher as possible. (Try for example "3V Dental Associates, hours" and you will see the hours in the description.) Here is a Yoast post that talks about this (scroll down a bit).
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