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[cmpranto]

Hello,
I started my site with own CMS and optimized it for a specific geographical area. Some days later I changed the CMS to plain HTML and also updated title text, Meta description, body text but Google still showing old title text and description. I pointed old URLs to new URLs using apache 301 redirection. I am taking look on Google’s web master tool for crawler access but i see there are no errors.

Any idea what's going on? Give me some instruction.

[Jill]

Wait a few days/weeks and all will be fine.

[BusinessWebDesigns]

I have the same problem with one of my older sites and I have to wait over 2 weeks to see a change.

[OldWelshGuy]

Google has been making up its own page titles for a while now. If they decide yours ain't good enough, they just create your own. A lot of weighting comes from innound anchor text

[Jill]

Ah yes, good point OWG. Or it may also be your DMOZ title or description.

Check to see if the same Title comes up for different search queries.

[cmpranto]

Thank you, Jill Whalen
I am one of your students. I started learning SEO from your lynda.com video training.

Now google is showing new data and my multiple pages are showing in SERPs. Today i analyzed my site with 21 keyword phrases among them google is showing 6 results, yahoo showing 18 results and bing is showing 17 results. I have targeted 12 primary keyword phrases and google is showing 6 of them, yahoo and bing is showing all of them; some are in position 1. It is about 1 and half month i am optimizing my site. Is that a good sign or bad?

Thanks...

[Jill]

It's a good sign, but now it's time to use your web analytics and start measuring your traffic and conversions.