• Resolved illyj

    (@illyj)


    The title tags for my homepages that use the SEO Framework are defaulting to this:

    “Soho Painters: Commercial & Residential Painters in New York”

    When the site title tag is this:

    Commercial & Residential Painters in New York | Soho Painters

    site url is https://sohopainters.com

    The same thing is happening on another one of my sites as well.

    What could be causing this?

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  • Thread Starter illyj

    (@illyj)

    Just to add – the other pages that have title tags set are displaying fine. It’s just the homepage.

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    I hope I’ve correctly understood your inquiry, and you want to have this as the title?
    Soho Painters: Commercial & Residential Painters in New York

    To achieve that, you’d want to go to the SEO Settings and then scroll down to the Homepage Settings meta box. There, on the second tab, “Additions”, you’d want to uncheck the box at the bottom, which asks “Add Meta Title Additions to the home page title?”.

    With that disabled, you have complete freedom in writing your homepage “Meta Title” in the “General” tab.

    I hope this helps! Cheers 🙂

    Thread Starter illyj

    (@illyj)

    Hi Sybre,

    I do not want that title. The title is set as

    “Commercial & Residential Painters in New York | Soho Painters”

    in the Homepage Settings meta box with the box unchecked. However, the title still defaults to:

    “Soho Painters: Commercial & Residential Painters in New York”

    It is happening on multiple sites that are running the SEO Framework. It is only happening on the homepage, however.

    For clarification, you can do a google search “site:sohopainters.com” and see what I mean.

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hi again 🙂

    The title you suggest is set in the <title> tag, which you can also see in the browser tab. So, I’ve assessed everything’s working as intended.

    Alas, Google is indeed displaying an old or incorrect title, and they’ve last crawled it on March 29th, 2019. At which time you’ve already set the new title.

    Now, it’s up to their discretion to do this. From their documentation, you can find the reason why at “Why the search result title might differ from the page’s <title> tag”, here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en

    […] However, sometimes even pages with well-formulated, concise, descriptive titles will end up with different titles in our search results to better indicate their relevance to the query. […]

    Basically, what Google says is: “We think this title is better… enjoy!”
    And there’s nothing much we can do about it 🙁

    Now, after some closer inspection, I did see a few issues in the rich snippets. With those, you might find more luck with the title if you split it for the homepage, like in the image below. The SEO Framework discerns the two fields for rich snippets.

    Do take note of the pixel counter. With the title Google uses, it’s green; your title makes it orange. Read more about pixel counters here.

    Moreover, you’d want to fill in the brand name at “Schema.org Settings -> Presence”.

    Please be aware that it may take a few weeks until Google sees these changes.

    If you haven’t yet signed up for Google’s Search Console, please do so. Their console gives insights on how they’ve assessed the information on your website. And, more importantly, you can ask Google to recrawl your URLs via a priority queue.

    I hope this helps! Cheers 🙂

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