Google search results have "- Joomla!" after article titles?

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ricehead
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Google search results have "- Joomla!" after article titles?

Post by ricehead » Sun Apr 20, 2014 12:28 pm

When searching for my site on Google, search results are adding "- Joomla!" on the end.

They also tend to show abbreviated menu link titles rather than full article titles, but I guess that's fine...

Any idea why "Joomla!" is showing after all search results? This doesn't happen for Bing or Yahoo, just Google. It's not in my sitemap or anywhere I can find via webmaster tools.

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Re: Google search results have "- Joomla!" after article tit

Post by dhuelsmann » Sun Apr 20, 2014 5:33 pm

Let's see:
On your home page and every other page you have this generator statement:

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<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! - Open Source Content Management" />
which you can easily remove from your template or simply install this extension and put your own tag in place http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... -tag/14368

On the home page and every other page you have this logoheader:

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 <img src="/baby/images/joomla_logo_black.jpg" alt="Joomla!" />
which is actually your logo but you didn't change the name or the alt.

And in your footer you have this with a link back to Joomla:

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<a href="http://www.joomla.org/">Copyright 2014, Mommyhood101 and Joomla!&#174;</a>
it isn't required that you maintain the Joomla copyright on your visible pages of your website. You are only required to leave it in the actual php code comments.
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Re: Google search results have "- Joomla!" after article tit

Post by ricehead » Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:29 pm

You're the best - thank you, I think I fixed all that!

:D


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