I am having the same problem, I have unput all my SEO and submitted to Google. when I search my site the title tags and description are not showing in the search.
I have <?php wp_title(”); ?> pasted in my header and Force rewrite titles unchecked.
Even in my website, http://www.obiettivobenessere.roma.it/ there’s a problem. Google don’t show wordpress seo title and description. If i open the code view on the browser, i can see two different kind of title and description (the first, i think is auto-created and the second belong to wordpress seo by yoast). I don’t know why there are 2 title and description and why Google uses the auto-created version. I built the site using “arras” theme.
I am also having this same problem. I have tried checking the force rewrite box and also unchecking it and changing the title code in the header.php and I still can’t see my title in search results.
http://joeyhamptonsolutions.com/
I have exactly the same problem. When I look at the source code I see there the 2 sets of meta tags. One is the original and the second is Yoast created. In WP using Yoast the SEO shows as being correct but actually it is wrong because the search engines are reading the original set of meta tags.
After getting a green light for everything in WP SEO Yoast I ran Traffic Travis to double check the SEO and TT came up with a very different (bad) set of results. That is when I checked the source code. 🙁
If you want to take a look http://www.photography-internships.com/
Is there a simple setting in WP SEO that we have all missed so that Yoast overrides the original <head> instead of appending it? Have we all missed something? Please help!
Could this be happening because I installed WP SEO Yoast after I had already created most of the pages on my site? If so, what should I do?
Thank you.
I have solved part of the problem by checking the “Force rewrite titles” box. This has taken care of most things but the original “<meta name=”description” content” still remains in addition to the Yoast created meta description.
If I find the solution I will post here.
Thank you Nigel, i have the same result: checking the forcing option the title became the one setted with the plugin, but the description is still auto-generated.
I checked my source code and the title looks like it should be correct but it isn’t showing up in google searches. I have tried uninstalling the plug-in and reinstalling, disabling my theme and deactivating other plug-ins. Nothing has made any changes so far. Could it be something I have set-up somewhere else like in google analytics. I have tried all of the recommendations and nothing has worked so far. Thank you.
batmax22, I looked at your source code and it is quite similar in structure to mine. meta description is in 2 places. The original 1 first and the Yoast 1 second.
Obviously a big problem because Google will only use the first one that it sees which is the one we don’t want it to use.
I guess there will be a very simple solution to this. I am sure somebody knows what that solution is and can tell us by posting here please. 🙂
Just for clarification, here is my site address so people can look at my source code and see the problem. http://www.photography-internships.com/
If somebody can give us a solution it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Nigel.
Yes. i think that in the wp theme code there is some php function that build the first description, but unfortunately i’m not good in php code to inderstand what i must modify 🙁
I am sure it will be a simple “box check”. Please, there must be somebody who can help with this. Please. 🙂
Nigel.
Nigel i deleted this code from the header, so i have only the yyoast description. now and i’m studying how this modify work. i’m waiting for google to update the serp but i don’t know how long it will take.
<?php arras_document_description() ?>
Thanks but that does not solve my problem. I don’t have that code in my header. Do you know if there is any way I can get some support from Yoast on this? I am really stuck until I can get this resolved.
Nigel.
BTW batmax, there is a free version of Traffic Travis you can download. It will check the whole of your SEO anytime you want.
i don’t know. on its website i see a payment checkup made by someone of the yoast’s team. in that code arras is the name of my theme. i think it’s the code that build the description, but i’m not sure. thank you for the link. i see and like your website. good work. even the galleries are vey nice.
Go to the header.php template and delete the source code
<meta name=”description” content=””>
It is located near the top of the file
This will let google only 1 META desc and see the META desc that Yoast generates
