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January 15, 2007

Yahoo Search Replacing Site Titles in Search Results Listings

I have no idea what is going on here, but I saw a few instances just a few moments ago myself. This was first reported on WMW where a member noticed that Yahoo was changing the titles of his site's listing in the search results. Yahoo was replacing a shortened lowercase different title for its normal title that was Uppercase longer and the accurate original title used on the site.

At first members wondered if Yahoo was just playing hooky and messing with Dmoz titles or even Yahoo Directory titles. This was not the case, as most of the sites mentioned don't have Dmoz or Y! listings.

Join the discussion and outrage at WMW - Yahoo Replacing Site Titles

Update by Barry: I wrote a long post with Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land on this, hope to have official word from Yahoo! soon.

Update 2 by Barry: This has been fixed now, Yahoo! Fixes Titles in Search Results Sourced From Internal Anchor Text, Thanks Tim!



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posted Phoenix in Yahoo! Search Engine at January 15, 2007 4:16 PM Comments (8)

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Yep been seeing this with a new site i've got..

If you type in the name of the domain its return that as the title.. No dmoz / yahoo dir etc..

Its 100% rewriting

 

Posted by Gabs at January 16, 2007 07:02

update on re-test..

my domain is 2 words e.g. bestfishing
If I run a query on "bestfishing" without " then its returning "BestFishing.com"

The capital are the interesting thing to me..

 

Posted by Gabs at January 16, 2007 07:05

Sorry should of posted this in one go but bestfishing works too.. returns "bestfishing.ro"

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkjMfv6xFNkoB5.JXNyoA?p=bestfishing&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&fp_ip=UK&x=wrt&meta=0

 

Posted by Gabs at January 16, 2007 07:07

It might have something to do with Yahoo Submit Express. A while ago I noticed that the titles on the 1st page listings were coming up with weird results. For example, the title was replaced with the actual URL of the website. I later found out that these same sites were participating in Yahoo Submit Express.

 

Posted by PPC Guy at January 16, 2007 10:39

My sites title is changing and I don't pay for submit express..

Site is less than 2 months old

 

Posted by Gabs at January 16, 2007 10:42

We launched a fix to the issue with lower case titles coming from anchor text. You should notice some changes tomorrow.
Tim

 

Posted by Tim at January 24, 2007 00:44

Thank you Tim!

 

Posted by Barry Schwartz at January 24, 2007 05:59

This is not fixed. At least two of my pages turn up in lower case on Yahoo search. I notice that some other sites are in the same boat. How does this happen? Is Tim still around?

 

Posted by John Bermont at May 6, 2008 17:46

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