So, unless my eyes were deceiving me, I just discovered that when i was searching for something using 2 different sets of keywords, the same website came up #1, with the same keywords in its title bar.

Example: Let's say I search for "how to eat". First result has "how to eat" in the link. I click that and I go to site A with 'how to eat" in its title bar. I then click back to google and search for "how to drink". Again, same site pops up as #1 and when I click that link, I go to the same site A, but now with "how to drink" in the title bar.

Question: Were my eyes deceiving me? If not, how would I go about coding my page(s) to account for this?

Please share your answers here so that we can all learn. I can guarantee you that any posts that say, "contact me for more details", in so many words, will be ignored.

very strange. I have not come across such.

contact me for more details.

oopps almost going offline, but saw this, hhmmmm why not let your keywords start with '' how to, display how to topic'' . and when anyone search for anything related to how to. it will direct to your site. if you use cms like wordpress, this will work wella, but haven't try html though.

Dual Core:

contact me for more details.

you too contact me for details

@ogzille no mind Dua jo. d guy don clean mouth finish for elance come here dey look for trouble

@wemaster if i understand where you are coming from, google doesn't place that much emphasis on keywords anymore. Why? cos ppl just view source of competitor website, copy their keywords and paste on their own site. Google places more emphasis on page titles and page description, compared to keywords. It also places more emphasis on how relevant keywords are used on various pages of the site.

yawa-ti-de:

So, unless my eyes were deceiving me, I just discovered that when i was searching for something using 2 different sets of keywords, the same website came up #1, with the same keywords in its title bar.

Example: Let's say I search for "how to eat". First result has "how to eat" in the link. I click that and I go to site A with 'how to eat" in its title bar. I then click back to google and search for "how to drink". Again, same site pops up as #1 and when I click that link, I go to the same site A, but now with "how to drink" in the title bar.

Question: Were my eyes deceiving me? If not, how would I go about coding my page(s) to account for this?

Please share your answers here so that we can all learn. I can guarantee you that any posts that say, "contact me for more details", in so many words, will be ignored.

well, i have seen it before. And i seem to know how to do just that - but i am not sure if it is legal sha. . . .i am in a hurry and dont have time for much talk now, besides, i will rather not want to share that knowlege in the public

There's nothing hackish about it.  You just check the referrer and set the title accordingly.

Seun:

There's nothing hackish about it.  You just check the referrer and set the title accordingly.

EVeryone can do that, it is more than that really. . . .far more. . .there is a content management system
involved, database programming and some other ingredients. . . .

Checking the referrer and populating the title bar with the name/value pair makes sense when you actually land on the site. My question has to do with sites that show up on the SERPs. In other words, way before you even click a link in google to go to the actual site. So:

I search for "dhtml is alive" and I get a results page with 10 results. #1 has as its title, "dhtml is alive". How is that "naturally" possible? Bear in mind, the site technically doesn't even know that it has been referenced at this point. In other words, if you were to check the logs, you wouldn't see anything that shows that the site was searched by someone in google. You only know that someone hit your site from google when they actually click the link on the SERPs.

Make sense?

Jazz

@yawa

sense. happens to me most times

Dual Core:

Jazz

+2

Provide the search terms so that we can investigate ourselves. Maybe you're missing something.

I would have loved to but the bot ate up my post . . . twice

muhahaha. . .

She's lying.  If the bot ate her post, I would have seen it.

Seun:

She's lying.  If the bot ate her post, I would have seen it.

pues, donde estan los posts?

*dhtml:

pues, donde estan los posts?

Guess Translation: Bro my post don loss?

@Seun I have nothing to lose by lying. After all, you don't know me. This particular post isn't the only one that has been lost here and it will probably won't be the last.

In the past, I used to save my posts in case it got eaten up. That way, I could repost but, I decided after a while not to bother anymore.

You can choose to believe what you want to believe. I know what I wrote (3 paragraphs) and I stand by my story.

still watching @_@

sisqology:

still watching @_@

+2

Ok,lets think like this and pls correct me if am wrong.

Bots behave like human visitors in a way,it indexes your website and caches the pages.when a visitor comes,it serves the cached content. Now,if you tell it not to cache a page,it will still index it(indexing in the sense,knowing your link exists but doesn't know your full content).

So now,when a visitor performs a search,the bot visits you and gets the content you served up to it,which would have been manipulated by the REFFERER function.

Disclaimer: am not fully sure of this but i know most of it is true. Someone gave me an idea before but can't really place the bits together. Atleast am sure you can tell a search bot what and what not to cache even in a given page. Maybe dhtm can atleast give us an idea,if he really knows. but when i find out,i'll post it here.

Spikes C, :

Ok,lets think like this and pls correct me if am wrong.

Bots behave like human visitors in a way,it indexes your website and caches the pages.when a visitor comes,it serves the cached content. Now,if you tell it not to cache a page,it will still index it(indexing in the sense,knowing your link exists but doesn't know your full content).

So now,when a visitor performs a search,the bot visits you and gets the content you served up to it,which would have been manipulated by the REFFERER function.

Disclaimer: am not fully sure of this but i know most of it is true. Someone gave me an idea before but can't really place the bits together. Atleast am sure you can tell a search bot what and what not to cache even in a given page. Maybe dhtm can atleast give us an idea,if he really knows. but when i find out,i'll post it here.

if i really know? muy interesante. . .con permiso, post what you know and you shall be corrected (if you goof), well, just kidding. . . . . .ama small boy and no sabi nada

*dhtml:

if i really know? muy interesante. . .con permiso, post what you know and you shall be corrected (if you goof), well, just kidding. . . . . .ama small boy and no sabi nada

Naaaaah,i think atleast you have an idea.

Spikes C, :

Naaaaah,i think atleast you have an idea.

Naaaa he has no idea. Trust me
This is not a senorita matter so he's blank

muchas gracias senor dual core, btw, i have not seen afrobaby of recent, where she dey?

Some of you guys always turn serious post into "search for babes" post. na wa o.

All the same, @Spikes, after your explanation, I am beginning to buy the idea of using the referrer.

What I will do is experiment with a particular site and check in every week or so after which I will report my findings to the board.

Thanks

Try a little titbit like this (am not revealing everything)

If i submit an xml sitemap to google and say:

.net?page=yawa - and the title of that page is yawatide based on the ?page is yawa
and do the same thing for dual core - and seun-
that way, the url search for the search terms will keep showing unique titles even if the contents of
the page is the same. So it is not a simple SERVER_REFERAL issue like our friend spikes suggested. . .

but of course the url can be in any format. the sitemap xml allows you to post anything you like.
I once had a site made up of one single page, and i managed to create 100 different types of search
results using something similar to what i just described.