Capitalization problems in SERP’s

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Inspired by a story on Search Engine Land theorizing that Google Checkout has been hijacked I feel inspired to share my opinion on what is happening (since something similar is currently happening to Sewell).

Here is a screenshot:

A snapshot of Google's weird handling of titles

My theory is that there is some more Google title weirdness going on, possibly linked to anchor text, but definitely not a sign that google checkout has been hijacked (which is the same theory that SEL eventually comes to after speaking with a representative for Google).

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  1. […] Yesterday I thought Google was having problems with capitalization but it was actually a problem on our end with our header returning Pragma:no-cache. Basically we weren’t allowing the engine to index our content. […]

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