Q and A: Why isn't Google picking up my Title and Description tags?

Dear Kalena...

Firstly, I would like to commend you on your newsletter. A friend recommended it to me and I have been extremely happy with the informative and pleasing layout of the content since.

I have been trying to optimize my new site www.gbintel.com for a couple of months now. I see that yahoo has listed my site but google for some reason does not pick up my title and description tag text and so I assume my keywords are not being crawled either. Do you know
why that is?

Marco

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Marco

Google generally chooses to display a snippet of text from your web page that includes the search query, rather than your Title element or META Description tag. Sometimes they will display tag content, but that's usually only if they don't find a relevant snippet in your site text. In the case of your site, they have used a snippet from your home page text.

Google has indexed 12 documents from your site, including web pages, PDF files and Flash files. But because your site is relatively new and has not yet built up link popularity, you'll find you will experience Google's aging delay before you'll see it appear for target search queries. This is pretty standard procedure for new sites so I suggest you use the waiting time to build more quality content pages.

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