Why Google doesn’t use your page’s title in search results

Google seems to be increasingly ignoring the title tag to define the title of webpages in the SERPs.

/ Published on

Google does what it wants! © BDM

Preferred H1 as title in search results

Barry Schwartz points out in the Search Engine Roundtable that Google seems to be increasingly ignoring the title tag used to define the title of the pages in the results. It’s difficult to speak of a clear trend as it’s just an observation of complaints raised by SEOs on Twitter and in specialized forums.

In most cases, Google prefers H1 over Title; but he can also use other text like an H2 or even the anchor of a link on another page to define the title.