On Monday, my post entitled “How Distilled Stole My Page Title” went around the Twittersphere. It was interesting to see the feedback and there were a lot of comments from a lot of people I respect. Read the comments here.
Now I run into an issue. I’ve never confronted something like this before, and I want to test in order to see what will cause the page title to change back in Google.
I need your help testing
How should I proceed with the testing? The first test is already in place. I unapproved the comments that Jen from SEOmoz thinks may have been contributing:
This test has been in place for 24 hours. It does not seem that Google has cached the page yet, but according to @rosshudgens:
The title has changed a bit. You can see that there is now a new “- The” in the title:
Compare to before:
I am going to run this test until tomorrow morning. Now the question becomes “What do I test next?”
Take the poll and help me out!
[poll id=”2″]
If you select “Other”, please tell me in the comments what you suggest.
Thanks everyone! I’ll be publishing my findings once all this is done!