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In Google, when you look up 'dejoost' it returns results with the page title + "comments on:" added in front of it. (example https://www.google.nl/#hl=nl&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=+site:dejoost.nl+dejoost&oq=+site:dejoost.nl+dejoost)

I've been looking around in the code, but cant find any reference to it. And the page title also doesn't contain this.

My questions:

1. any idea why this is added?
2. Andy idea how i can solve/remove it?

Thanks

Answer 1

The reason to "comments on" in Serp's is a internal links problem in your CMS system.

In your home page there is imag links without alt tags and with "comments on".

For example this line

<a href="http://www.dejoost.nl/porcelain-vases-by-michael-breschi/#respond" rel="nofollow" title="Comment on Porcelain Vases by Michael Breschi"><span class="icon"></span></a>    </li>

There is blank link anchor with title, this kind of link confuse the search engines and they chose unneeded title for your serp results.

Answer 2

It took some time, but I think I might have found the problem.

In the RSS feed for the post, the title started with "comments on"

I removed that from the RSS feed, maybe that will solve the problem.

Answer 3

How Google ranks pages is far more complex then just containing the word in the title or on the page. They can choose the title used in the SERPs based on anything and that includes making one up if they feel it is a better fit then content they can find on the page.

To attempt to solve it:

• Make sure all of your page titles are unique
• Make sure your page titles contain keywords relevant to the page's content

That should encourage Google to use the titles you choose as opposed to making up their own.

Answer 4

John's right...add some more unique content to drown out what Google thinks should be the title. There's really no tried-and-true way of forcing Google to use certain text in the SERPs, I find it depends on what keyword was searched...

Answer 5

There is more to it than just the anchor text on a link as shown in the example above.

I am seeing this happening on lots of sites. In the above example the link says "Comment on" the words Google is adding to post titles is "Comments on:".

It does appear to be happening to WordPress related sites, but where it is actually coming from I don't know yet.

Try these 2 site searches in google to see examples of what I am talking about;

site:v1seo.co.uk "Comments on:"
site:sim64.co.uk "Comments on:"

It really is strange, I am surprised more people aren't talking about it yet.