How Site name appears on Google
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Hi, when i google my blog address , or just, ‘jennybrodie wordpress’ it appears as ‘Click this or die – WordPress WordPress’.
How do I go about changing this, because I don’t recall ever writing ‘Click this or die’!
Thanks
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Good grief! I do see what you mean. I have no idea where that is being derived from as I can’t find it on your blog. Moreover encouraging people to click ads is click fraud. I’m wondering if this could possibly be linked to advertising appearing on your blog and I’m flagging this thread for Staff attention.
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This is getting WAY out of hand when ad stuff wordpress puts on your site ends up showing up in search results.
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We did some digging, and it doesn’t seem to be ads that are causing this.
First, we don’t show ads to bots, like Google’s search bot.
Second, the text is displaying along with your site title in the search results, not the content, and our logs do report that you title was changed recently.
Also, I found a post that had been deleted with “die” as a post slug. Perhaps this contained the text, or even title, that was indexed?
We’re still looking into the slimmest possibility that ads caused this, but for now the above cases seem most likely.
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