The site owner, codergautam, has rebranded their forum to IO Games Forum from Swordbattle.io, but Google search results still show the old name. Despite updating the Discourse settings, the issue persists. Heliosurge suggested checking for any remaining instances of Swordbattle.io in the settings, but codergautam confirmed that it’s not the case.
Bas explained that Google may not have updated all the results yet, and it could take a few weeks to resolve itself. To expedite the process, Bas recommended using the Google Search Console to request a recrawl by resubmitting the sitemap. Bas also suggested that Google may not have crawled the pages with mixed titles, such as “Categories - Io Games Forum - Swordbattle.io Forum”, since the change was made.
But for some search results (like one above) in Google the site headline hasn’t changed. I have changed everything in the Discourse settings to remove the swordbattle keyword, but it still shows that.
Note that this specific topic was made after the rebrand, so I dont think it’s a cache issue. If you go to the topic you can see the page title contains IO Games Forum only, so not sure why this is happening.
This issue should fix itself over time, could take a few weeks. To help Google out, you could use the Google Search Console to request a recrawl (by resubmitting your sitemap).
But I dont understand the ones for example “Categories - Io Games Forum - Swordbattle.io Forum” it seems to have a mix of both the names which is very weird, it was never like that.
Yeah, so Google probably hasn’t crawled those pages that still have “swordbattle.io” in the title since you did the change.
Give it a few weeks and it should resolve itself.
