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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Title Issue… againim just gonna sue Google for mental anguish
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Title Issue… againhaha sorry.
Yeah I was using version 3.2.1 back when it was the latest and I reverted back to 3.2 to see if that was the issue cause my previous sites didnt have any problems at all. I also tried the version after 3.2.1.
Yep, disabled all plugins and used the default theme.
I actually bought a brand new hosting account on hostgator, tried probably 5 different themes including the default, uninstalled/deleted all plugins, tried different seo plugins.
the titles always came out right in the source code but got cached completely different.
Webmaster tools didnt see any problems with crawling or html.
each post had 1 correct title cached and 1 was always in the form “[keyword] – comments for [domain]”
i thought converting to pages would fix everything, and it looked like it did in the beginning… but now titles are messed up again. theyre not the same as they were though, now there is only 1 cached for each page but the titles come out even more weird now its always in the form “[keyword] – [domain] >> asus laptops”. my site is a tech blog but i dont even have any asus laptops on there! lol. no asus laptops categories and no asus laptops pages.
i dont expect to be able to figure this out. i think there must be some supernatural explanation for it because ive tried everything and im not doing anything different than i have in the past and no one else seems to be having these problems but me. seems like it showed up after Google panda. could have something to do with it. but like i said, cant find anyone else thats even seen this level of insanity. this will be the end of me, i will go insane because of it. maybe i can sue Google for mental damages…
thanks for the reply
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Title Issue… againanyone?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WordPress SEO Plugin] Google pulling up wrong titles all of a suddenIs it that some pages have the correct title and some do not, or is it that Google is caching 2 different copies for each page/post. <- I ran into this problem. Search for exactly what the correct titles would be for a particular url and then search for what the incorrect title would be for the url or possibly the url itself
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post Status INHERIT in database?didnt work. im about to give up. at least for some reason now the posts with the correct titles are showing up first in the search engines.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post Status INHERIT in database?Thanks guys! You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get any help with this issue.
ericr23, yes, I am using the Google XML sitemaps plugin. I’ll check Google now to see if anyone else has had similar problems using that plugin. I did change permalinks at one time, however even new posts that have no backlinks yet seem to have this issue right when they get indexed. I had thought it was a theme issue because I deleted everything, uninstalled wordpress, then made some posts with the default theme without changing anything in the theme first. Then I installed a theme that I had bought, made some posts, waited for Google to index those and they seemed ok. Then I changed the theme in the editor (nothing too much, just changed background images, header sizes and stuff, and I also changed the way posts were displayed in index.php and archives.php then tried posting some new posts and the posts came out strange again. So I thought that changing certain themes in the editor and not just using the theme the exact way it was uploaded might have been the problem but I didn’t check other variables like the XML sitemaps plugin. I had tried deleting all other plugins except for the sitemaps plugin before I uninstalled/reinstalled wordpress and used the default theme and that didn’t work. I didn’t think it was the sitemaps plugin but after your comment I’m rethinking the possibility that this could be the issue.
SwansonPhotos, thanks for the reply, I have been using the xml sitemaps plugin but I just last night tried using a robots.txt file. I woke up this morning and checked and a lot of what Google had chached was completely deindexed. Even the posts that I wanted to keep on there. I don’t know if its because of a problem with my robots.txt file or if Google had just not seen those posts in a while because I completely deleted everything and I hadn’t reposted those posts until last night (it had been probably 3 days that I had those posts removed). Here is what I have in my robots.txt file. Can you take a look and see if it looks alright?
Sitemap: http://domain/sitemap.xml (real domain is in the actual robots.txt)
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*/trackback
Disallow: /*/feed
Disallow: /*/comments
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /*page/*User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /feedThanks again guys.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post Status INHERIT in database?Well, in the post admin you only see the good post with the good title. And its the same way in the database it looks like. However Google caches 2 different posts for each post I make and they both go to the same URL. One has the correct title, one always comes out in the form “[keyword] – Comments for [domain]”. Its very strange. Ive never ran into this before a few months ago, could have something to do with Google Panda perhaps. I looked at the source code of the 2 cached posts that lead to the same url and they are identical, even in title tags except for strange in-line css styling that appears on every word inside of certain important tags, like the title tags. So it seems Google is thinking this is duplicate content, and whats worse, the post with the incorrect title is the one that ranks up in google because it doesnt have strange in-line css styling applied in weird places. I’ve done everything I can think of, right now I’m trying to add a robots.txt file that will disallow pretty much everything, – comments, feed, trackback, everything. I’ll let you know how it turns out unless you can offer a better solution? No ones ever seen this before. Thanks for the reply btw
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post Status INHERIT in database?Hey ericr, can you tell me what attachment posts are? I’m having a problem with worpdress posting 2 of the same posts but with different titles which Google caches both as unique posts even though they go to the same url and I dont know how to get rid of it. Any ideas? Thanks
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How to prevent duplicate posts with wp_insert_post on single.phpdid anyone ever find an answer to this? I think I’m having the same problem. 2 posts are being cached by google for each of my posts, which have 2 different titles and are very slightly different (one has weird in-line css styles applied to some elements).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Duplicate posts being cached with same URLThe cached posts are slightly different, have different titles, but go to the same URL. I suspect it could be the wp_insert_post(); function. Possibly making 2 posts during CRON and AJAX.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Google Caching Weird Post Titles – PLEASE HELPFigured it out. So i looked at the source code of the 2 cached pages and put them in an external diff program to see what was different about them that I could have been missing. The one with correct titles had some strange inline css styling applied to various tags and the one with bad titles did not have the strange inline css styling. So I thought it must be somethign to do with the theme thats producing 2 different posts for each post that I make. So I deleted all the files for that theme I was using and i reinstalled the original untouched theme and made a new post, waited for it to be cached, and it came out right! Its a little confusing as to why it worked because I had tried out different themes thinking it could have been the theme that was causing it and it was still producing 2 posts.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Google Caching Weird Post Titles – PLEASE HELPthanks revium, ill try that.
Ipstenu, I made new posts everytime I changed something to see if Google cached the right titles with the new post. But I see what you mean now about the right titles coming up – When I search for “dontbuystupid.com” almost everything that comes up is wrong, its all in that format [keyword] – Comments for [domain]. ie. After searching for dontbuystupid.com the first thing that came up was “Epson WorkForce 520 – Comments for DontBuyStupid.com” but then I tried searching for “epson workforce 520 – the truth about the epson workforce 520” and the page came up with the right titles somewhere down the page!! It looks like Google is caching 2 different pages for each of my posts or something. Have you guys heard of this happening or do you know how to fix it? Thanks
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Google Caching Weird Post Titles – PLEASE HELPi didnt think wordpress was the issue. i thought it could have been a plugin that didnt fully function correctly with the newer version of wordpress. …which is why i tried going back to the older version.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Google Caching Weird Post Titles – PLEASE HELPthe site is dontbuystupid.com. If you look at the titles in the source code (they are correct) they come out a lot different than any of the post titles that Google caches. page titles dont seem to have a problem
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Google Caching Weird Post Titles – PLEASE HELPI dont think so. I configured all-in-one seo the same exact way I configured my other sites and they are fine. I even tried deleting all-in-one-seo and using headspace. I deleted all the plugins expect for XML sitemaps and tried making new posts but when Google caches them they still come out the same way. Ive tried switching themes, I’ve tried reinstalling wordpress. Ive tried downgrading from wordpress 3.2.1 to 3.1. Logically this just doesnt make any sense. I know some php but I dont know how wordpress works… is it possible that the default theme that comes with wordpress is appending something to a .php file, like the functions file thats causing this? something like a filter that for some reason is appending “Comments for [domain]” onto the title? However when you look at the title in the source code it looks perfect, Google is just seeing something different and I dont know where theyre getting it. Any hypothetical reasons you can think of that could be causing this? Thanks