Google: We Only Rewrite A Low Number Of Page Titles But If We Are...

Nov 13, 2019 - 7:33 am 3 by

Google Rewrite Titles

Gary Illyes from Google was quoted as saying "We rewrite page titles in a low number of cases." Jennifer Slegg also loosely quoted him as saying "if Google is rewriting your titles, that is a sign you should work on rewriting those titles." This is from a conference named UnGagged where supposedly you are not allowed to share what you learn - but yet here we have a share.

Here is Jennifer Slegg's post on Twitter:

So it is kind of new to hear from Google that they only rewrite page titles, title tags, in a small number of cases. I thought Google did it more often and it was query dependent for that reason - to help the searcher click on a page title that is more relevant to the query.

The other tidbit is a bit concerning to me. Gary is saying here that if a title is rewritten that means that you might want to consider rewriting your titles yourself?

As to why this was tweeted, they got permission:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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