Forces 60 Char SERP Title When Yoast Allows More – What is this Nonsense?
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Why does AIOSEO force the user to a 60 character title for SERP title when Yoast allows more?
My old SERP title with AIOSEO worked perfectly damn well until the plugin updated at some point and forced the title down to 60 characters, removing my old title and forcing the default page title as the SERP title.
How is it SEO friendly to take a pre-existing SERP title that was working in Googles search engine and then forcefully remove it, because you think it makes the most sense to constrain this title to 60 chars, when it was ALREADY WORKING AND LISTED IN GOOGLE WITH MORE CHARACTERS.
I was under the impression the new team behind AIOSEO wasn’t as incompetent as the the prior owner, but clearly nothing has changed.
Let’s destroy what is currently working for site owners in favor of some new (arbitrary by the AIOSEO team) rule that clearly isn’t a hard rule by Google.
Why not use common sense and realize that forcefully reverting SERP titles to the Page Title if they exceed 60 chars is idiotic, and instead make it a soft recommendation, and where if the title does exceed the allocated chars by google (which is clearly MORE than 60 chars) allow it to remain and for google to naturally truncate it with the “…”)
Please correct me if I am wrong. I want to be wrong and hope that the AIOSEO team is not only not as incompetent as the prior, but isn’t now deliberately destroying the SEO of websites.
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Except that is exactly what it did.
It seems at some point through an auto update, custom SERP titles set in AIOSEO that may or may not have exceeded 60 characters were automatically removed and replaced with the +Page title variable.
I found two other posts to this case, so you are going to have a hard time denying it:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-update-deleted-my-titles-and-descriptions/
The site in question for me is very bare-bones plugin wise, and no other plugin would be capable of deleting a field of text (the SERP title) from AIOSEO settings and then inserting the +Page Title variable. In other words, this has to be yet another update eff up from the AIOSEO team.
Honestly, this is asinine.
Realistically, SEO plugins do not have much control over SEO, but of the things they can do, one of the most crucial is SERP titles. And to have SERP titles be rewritten/reset to +Page Title is disastrous.
There could potentially be millions of sites who had all of their SERP page titles rewritten.
This plugin is just one eff up after another. Is there not quality control whatsoever?
3 years ago this plugin bricks websites on certain popular used versions of php; 2 years later its acquired by a new company and the eff ups continue: in one update AIOSEO forces automatic updates without notifying the user, in another it has a fairly severe security exploit, and now I find it’s stripped my SERP title that has been there for 4 years and replaces it with +Page Title.
You have no right in labeling yourselves as the “Best WordPress SEO Plugin”.
Hang up your hat and move onto something else. Gambling with people’s livelihoods and tanking their websites should be just as serious as any of the charlatans or ponzi schemers that equally ruin peoples lives.
Unlike brick and mortar business, there is no degrees required for the building blocks and services that make-up an online business, so it allows clearly incompetent fools like the AIOSEO team to eff up over again and ruin business after business without repercussion.
Get out.
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