Hello @angeljs
Hope you’re doing well today! I am sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing.
Can you please check if you have set up the title and meta based on the below screenshots?
From SmartCrawl Settings: https://monosnap.com/file/CR9osRWCasX8TvDfBg8wlGIbHcJHgy
From Homepage Settings: https://monosnap.com/file/aLKQz91qJneGeGEptDVEzEoUL9WeYR
Can you please let us know if any of the content from the above settings has only the website URL? If so, please try adding the website name in the “Title” field and see if that helps.
The site will need to be submitted for re-indexing so that the Google Spiders can crawl and update the content to be displayed on the search results page.
You can follow the guide below on how you can submit the website for re-indexing https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/ask-google-to-recrawl
Please note, that the re-indexing once requested may take a few days to weeks as it completely depends on Google and we don’t have any control over it.
Please do let us know in case the Site title on the homepage settings is correct and hasn’t been changed from a while.
Kind Regards,
Saurabh
Hmm, for the Smartcrawl settings I’ve added my actual site name and description, was I not meant to do that? The homepage ones seem okay.
Thank you for your reply.
Hello @angeljs,
Yes that’s absolutely fine to type the actual site name and description.
First of all, you may need to check if the site name actually appears in the meta tags, by viewing the HTML code on the frontend pages: https://www.wikihow.com/View-Source-Code
It should appear in the <head> section, at the beginning: https://prnt.sc/VJLEB9a0oQsi
Even if the site name has been set, and can be detected by search engines, Google still may not use it for displaying in its search results.
You can try applying their recommendations, in order to increase the chances of displaying it. For example, make sure that the site name is unique, it’s mentioned on the home page, and so on: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/site-names#choosing-site-name
Please note, that you may need to wait for a couple of weeks before checking if the changes are reflected in Google.
I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Best Regards,
Dmytro
Hi, yes, it’s definitely in the meta tags, I’ve checked it several times, which is why I don’t understand why it’s happening only with sites that use your plugin. 🙁
Hi @angeljs,
Since the website URL that you observed this issue is not mentioned, we were unable to take a closer look at the issue. Would it be possible for you to share the website URL so that we can take a closer look?
If you do not wish to share the website URL publically in this forum, please email us at wpsupport@incsub.com using the following subject
Subject: ATTN: WPMU DEV support - wp.org
Best Regards,
Nebu John
If you search Google for ajbower, it’s the first site that shows, ajbower.uk.
I can take screenshots of my settings, if it would help?
Hi @angeljs
I typed your domain URL in Google search and all listed pages including the homepage contain the page title, description, etc. Are you still facing the same issue, if so can you share a screenshot of how that looks from your side?
Kind Regards,
Kris
I’ve uploaded a screenshot:
https://i.postimg.cc/SKWTVX1Y/Clipboard.jpg
Thanks for your help with this.
Hi @angeljs,
When I check the title via the page source and the screenshot you have provided, both are the same ie the title in the screenshot and whats added to the site appear to be the same.
Is the issue with any specific page? Could you please check and advise?
Possible to also share the Title you have configured in the plugin side?
Looking forward to your response.
Regards,
Nithin
Hi @angeljs
We haven’t heard from you in a while, I’ll go and mark this thread as resolved. If you have any additional questions or require further help, please let us know!
Kind Regards,
Kris
Very sorry, but I don’t receive any reply notifications from this website. 🙁
This title is what I mean. Others have their title at the top of the search result, but mine doesn’t:
https://i.postimg.cc/JnfNb2Vx/Clipboard.jpg
Hi @angeljs,
What you have marked in the screenshot provided is the Site Name listed above the URL of the page, which is configured using Markup Schema. Please find more about Site Names in Google Search Results here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/site-names
SmartCrawl fully supports default schema types, allowing you to effectively communicate your data to search engines. Please find more about the same here: https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/smartcrawl/#schema
I hope that helps. Please feel free to get back to us if you need any further clarification.
Best Regards,
Nebu John
Thank you for all of your help with this, but I don’t know what any of that means. As long as my site ranking isn’t affected I’ll just have to leave it, I guess. 🙁
Hello @angeljs
I understand your concern about Google displaying your site’s domain name instead of the intended site name in search results. I checked your site again and everything looks implemented however there is an issue with website schema.
Verify Structured Data Implementation:
Check for Errors: Use Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool to ensure your structured data is correctly implemented and free from syntax errors.
Site Name Specification: Confirm that your structured data includes the name property with your desired site name. For example:
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "WebSite",
"name": "Your Preferred Site Name",
"url": "https://ajbower.uk"
}
I can see you have one website schema however it does not looks similar to what I shared. You can use the smartcrawl schema builder to add or update that.
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/smartcrawl/#schema
Best Regards
Amin
