meta -title & description missing on homepage

Hi @jerparx ,
Thanks for your support !!

I’ve a lot of warnings and some errors shown by Ryte. I’ve tried to solve a lot by myself, but it’s not finished.. The site is : laurentsmet-photographe.com.

Thanks again !

Hi @pcosta88 , thank you for your support !!

First, I’ve already subscribed to your newsletter 😉

1) I understand it could only be a bug. Indeed, I can see these data on google search.
What I don’t understand is why does Ryte not see them ???

2) I know where to find Yoast sitemap ( https://ibb.co/R3052Ls ). I think I remember Ryte was looking for it into robots.txt (not 100% sure !) ; does Yoast put a “zipped” sitemap in these files ? It was also question about compressed sitemap (.gz I suppose?). How can I create one, or does Yoast create it too ?
I’ll write to Ryte, thanks for the link !

3) I didn’t made a redirect ! That because, iThemes security ask if we want to force the redirect, what I did ; also wp-optimize make a similar job (and I forgot the third plugin wich does it too).. That’s why I did NOT a redirect by myself.
I’ll ask to their support forum too.

Thank you very much for your help ! I think I’ll need to come back later with other question about this Ryte report (are Yoast and Ryte related ??)

Thanks again !

Thanks again !!

1) I’ll for sure take contact with Ryte, but to be sure about what to say, I must ask you further : there are 2 things I don’t understand yet :

A- you show me your screenshot where meta-title and meta-description do appear. BUT, I know it’s the same domain/URL, but this is also my site-title and description (in WP general settings), Ryte told me ‘only’ about my homepage ! (even then, why should the description also be written ‘with/in’ title too, so 2 times ??). Could it be a difference between site title and description VS meta -title & -description (yes I do see the “meta” tags on your screenshot).
I ask this, because Ryte DID found the same title and description, but still said “meta-title/description” are missing”, as in my backend ?? ( https://ibb.co/MnC7Xr5 )

B- Could it be possible it comes out because Ryte found (with W3C validator) a “malformed head”?? ( https://ibb.co/PzPSRKp )

2) in te same (last) screenshot, they talk about the “missing” sitemap in robots.txt. And they show me the results of W3C validator (wich also said I have “broken xml files”). It’s also into W3C errors and warnings that I was told I must add a “xml.gz” sitemap, that’s why I asked you !

Once more I want to thank you for your support, and for the interresting links I’ll read asap.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by lsphoto.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by lsphoto.

Hi,

I just discovered today that my problem about this topic are worst today… Could you help please ?

@mikes41720 I’m sorry, my English is bad and it’s difficult for me to explain.
But I must disagree with what you say : in my previous post I said : “(even then, why should the description also be written ‘with/in’ title too, so 2 times ??)”..
What I meant was : why does the description ALSO appear in the meta-title ???
So when you say “there is only a singular title and meta description and it seems to match with what the Ryte analysis is showing”, this is not true.. My site title (in Yoast, and in wp settings) is (was !!, see below) : “Photographe dordogne 24 France | Laurent Smet Photographies”.
When you say “it’s what Ryte is showing”, it WAS true, but Ryte only said my “title was too long, 517px instead of maximum 512px”, so yesterday I’ve got rid of the word “France” and it was ok. That is what you can see in my previous post screenshot !
And it is ALSO what you can see in @pcosta88 screenshot, the word “France” has disappeard, BUT the meta-description IS ALSO in meta-title !!! That was my question !!

But as I said my problems got worst today, I went on my site domain URL and found… an empty page !!
I found my hompage back when I added the auto slug ! I could eventually solve that issue.
But as of now, this meta-description DOES indeed stay into the meta-title (on google search) !!! Wich is really bad of course !! (now it is very very long, too bad and not friendly title) (please see : https://ibb.co/Sx8bcSf )
But in the same time, it is NOT what’s showed in Yoast settings !!! ( https://ibb.co/M7pbC82 )

So, NOW, I really have a too long title!!! How and why it came out, I don’t know… Did you at Yoast do something about it ???
As it is not in Yoast settings nor in WP settings nor in my theme settings, how could this happen and more important : how to get rid of this part ???

I also discovered a big change in Yoast settings (wich I did NOT do !!) : today’s screenshot : https://ibb.co/VNx4Dqy . But since I’ve installed Yoast, my settings about pages were : https://ibb.co/w6kytd6
How could this have changed alone??? And what now, I suppose that’s the reason of my “new” site title (?). But if I change it back, it will change all of my pages’s name, true or not ?? (see EDIT #2)
I can’t get back to yesterday changes, of all of the wp revisions, I can only come back on 20200628, nothing after…

Please could you please give me advice soon, I’d be very greatfull !!!

NB : for the sitemap, I only have the Yoast one. I didn’t show all the screenshots of Ryte, but the problem with it was a “compressed sitemap missing” and that it “is not in robots.txt”.
But for now, it’s really not my emergency issue…

Thanks a lot for your help and support… Do you think I should try to deactivate yoast to see what happens, or will it be worst?

Thank you very much again…

EDIT : one more thing : some days ago I was told by Yoast I had indexations problems and I’d test with Ryte, what I did. Then this problem had dissapeard, and Yoast said in “health status check” all was ok (yesterday).
But I just checked my site “health status” to see again that yoast tells me I again have indexation issues that I should check with Ryte (what I can’t do with a free account)… Really worst… I suppose it’s that “title problem”…
EDIT #2 : I did the change (and cleaned up cache plugin, browsers’s caches etc), nothing changes, site title still with description added… I’m lost, don’t know how to get rid of that part..

Again thank you !

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by lsphoto.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by lsphoto.

Hello,

No more support when your users are in trouble ??
Could you please at least tell why the only code part 100% red is about Yoast plugin ? (into <head>, wich was told by Ryte to be “malformed”…!)

Thanks

Edit : https://ibb.co/vjPxK1W

Hi @jeroenrotty , thank you very much !

First, thank you for the explanation concerning the “red code”, I asked because it is the only part in the <head> of my homepage with this color only, and as Ryte said that my <head> was “malformed” …

The problem of the title appeared with the changes made by/with Yoast. In summary, it all started with a warning from Yoast advising me to check with Ryte. One issue was that my site title was “Photographe Dordogne 24 France | Laurent Smet Photographies”, in the WP settings, my theme and in Yoast. Ryte told me it was 517px and It shouldn’t be over 512px. So I removed the word “France” and this problem was resolved. But this was the beginning of my problems… My site is just 3 months old, and I was already in first place page 3 in Google, when looking for a “photographer dordogne 24”, since I am a small business in the countryside.

This is where the problems started with Yoast. First the meta-title contained also the meta-description as shown in the screenshot of @pcosta88 : https://pasteboard.co/JfmhN0x.png
And indeed, this is how Google showed me: https://ibb.co/Sx8bcSf. However, in the settings of Yoast, everything seemed ok: https://ibb.co/M7pbC82. I disabled Yoast to see but it was the same.
I noticed by re-activating Yoast that some settings had changed, all alone, without me touching it!, (don’t know if it was like that before deactivating), namely that, as I only have a small site, I had configured Yoast like this: https://ibb.co/w6kytd6 . But Yoast had it transformed like this: https://ibb.co/VNx4Dqy …!
Besides, yesterday when I went to my site (domain name)(not logged in), I had a blank page. To access it, I had to type the automatic slug created by Yoast! I didn’t ask for that either !! How can Yoast make these changes alone? I feel like I have no control over anything, I’m seriously starting to wonder if it’s a good idea to keep Yoast …
Anyway, I made the change back as it was before. And the meta-title and the meta-decription do now reflect that well into the code !

Unfortunatly, all these changes led Google to “give me” another name : “Laurent Smet Photographies: photographe dordogne 24”. First in French the lack of a space before the “:” is a spelling error (aswell as the country without capital letter, it doesn’t look very serious !!).
Then my problem is that there is a famous actress/singer here called “Laura Smet”. So if you look for my name, I’m well after the tenth page … (except (when you write the name of my brand, so + ‘photographies’, for the “Google Maps Business box”)
But the worst (I make a new site to find new customers, not for those who already know me) is when doing a research for a “photographer in Dordogne 24” (= my country), I find myself even more far away in the results (instead of first result page 3) !! Regardless of the keywords, this “title” remains the same in the search results.

Conclusion: everything seems to be ok now about meta -title and -description, but google decided otherwise because of these changes (and maybe because of this actress too?). But in all cases I’ve lost a lot from the SEO point of view !!!

I didn’t yet make the check you suggest with the health plugin. But what I especially want is that google take into account the “real” title of my site! Is there anything I can do to “recover” my title, and help me go back up the slope of SEO ???

Last thing, with Chrome dev tools, it seems to be an issue with the sitemap (what Ryte also told !!)(I don’t know the difference between sitemap and sourcemap ?) : “DevTools failed to load SourceMap: Could not load content for chrome-extension://xxxxxxxnfdjdjjikgkefkcegefikecdc/scripts/driver.min.js.map: HTTP error: status code 404, net::ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME”. Could this be related to the problem ?

Thank you very much @jeroenrotty if you can give me some advices !! (tussen buren, ik kom vanuit België..). I worked weeks to lose a lot in 2 days, it’s not really fun …
Thanks again for your help !

Edit : and I forgot to say that with all that, my score on google insight, GTMetrix, Pingdom, dareboost etc is literally plummeted !! Even I don’t know how it’s related, it’s a fact.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by lsphoto.