How do I change the tagline that appears in search engine results, and why is no
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Two issues:
1. When Googling LosCrossovers.com, an old placeholder tagline appears. We entered this text a long time ago, and cannot find the field again to re-edit this text. Can you please point me in the direction of this field?
2. When people share our homepage on Facebook, for example, no image is attached to the link and it says something like “No Title Available”. How do we remedy this?
THank you!!
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Hey Austin,
1. When Googling LosCrossovers.com, an old placeholder tagline appears. We entered this text a long time ago, and cannot find the field again to re-edit this text. Can you please point me in the direction of this field?
To adjust your tagline, click below:
https://wordpress.com/settings/general/loscrossovers.comIt may take 4-6 weeks or more for search engines to revisit your blog and discover new content. Registering your site on Google and requesting an update may help speed up discovery.
2. When people share our homepage on Facebook, for example, no image is attached to the link and it says something like “No Title Available”. How do we remedy this?
Here are the instructions about how to best set your thumbnail when sharing your site on Facebook:
Follow those suggestions, and let me know how that works for you!
I hope this helps! If you have any other concerns, drop me a note. Thanks much!
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We changed the tagline in our General Settings in April or May of 2014. I verified our blog with Google so hopefully in the next couple days it will refresh, unless that’s not how it works in your experience?
Also I had already uploaded a Blavatar before submitting this ticket and it didn’t work, but now that I share the homepage it looks like a thumbnail pops up but no Title. I double-checked my Settings page and we have LosCrossovers.com in the Title field. Any suggestions? I have some screenshots for you if you’d like to take this convo to email
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Hi Austin,
I Googled Los Crossovers, and your website turned up the 2nd position, so it sure looks like you’ve been indexed quickly.
Here is the listing I see:
https://cloudup.com/cfatnn_lAowAlso I had already uploaded a Blavatar before submitting this ticket and it didn’t work, but now that I share the homepage it looks like a thumbnail pops up but no Title. I double-checked my Settings page and we have LosCrossovers.com in the Title field. Any suggestions?
I ‘fixed’ this for you, but I want to show you how to do it yourself, in case you adjust your site again, and Facebook displays old images/titles, etc:
Once a post or page has been shared on Facebook, the images and text have been stored in a cache on their server for future shares. Facebook doesn’t look at the page again for new images until their cache expires. This time period is unpredictable, but can be days or weeks. You can force Facebook to update its cache for your post/page by entering the link to the specific blog post you’re sharing into their Debug tool on this page:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
After pasting your link into the box on that page, click the “Debug” button. Then, click the “Fetch new scrape information” button. You may need to click the “Fetch new scrape information” button twice. Then try sharing your post/page on Facebook again.
^That is what I did for you, and the site appears to be sharing correctly now. Take a look!
Thanks again :)
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Yes the second position in google but it still displaying our old tagline from almost a year ago. How do I force Google to re-index the correct tagline???
Thank you so much for the Facebook fix, I am at work so cant pull the site up right now but if it worked for you we should be good to go on that. Thank you for all your help!
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Hey Austin!
You’ve done everything you can: you’ve changed the tagline, you’ve verified your site with Google (using webmaster tools), and you’re posting regularly, which means you’ll be indexed more often.
Now, it’s entirely up to Google to clear their cache. The last suggestion I can make is that you request Google to remove your outdated content. Here’s some more information about that action, from Google’s help site:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663691?hl=en
There’s no assurance this will expedite the situation, but it’s worth a go.
Sounds great about the Facebook issue — let me know if you have any other questions about using that Facebook debug tool!
Please let us know if you have any other concerns. Thanks much!
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