By chance do you have Personalized search turned on at Google, or
perhaps Google is picking up a portion of the page like a copyright
notice with your name in it or maybe Google is pulling part of your
meta description? Google seems to randomly use our Meta Description for
some pages.
Allen Harkleroad
Author of "No Fluff Just the Stuff
SEO" Book
www.nofluffseobook.com
My
SEO Blog
www.dotref.com
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Some days ago I noticed something strange. The title of my main site is not
> the same as that which the SERP's show. I am not listed in DMOZ, in case
> that's a factor.
>
> For some reason, my first name is appended to the <title>. For example if you
> google 'site schestowitz' (or any phrase for that matter), the title will
> show my name rather than the title. Odd... that does not even align with
> anchor text. Could it be manually edited or part of a new algorithm?