Check your source code in frontend, is the title tag correct? Meaning, is your site’s name in front or at the end? If it’s correct in the source code, than most likely Google is doing it’s own thing by generating page title based on search query. It does it to descriptions too.
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a9fc
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Source code? of which front end? site? plugin? theme?
This only happened after I switched to yoast, so it shouldn’t be the theme or wordpress’ issue. If it’s google, why only to mine?
Doesn’t make sense, it should be yoast. It could be yoast conflicting with the theme in some way of course, but I feel it’s highly unlikely.
Search query’s unlikely too. Nobody searches based on my site’s name.
And if it’s the setting you’re talking about, I’ve posted it above. as you can see, the title is in front.
for your reference:
%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Post your website URL and search term where you saw site name before the title, so I can better help you.
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a9fc
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Here are the 2 links:
Normal on google with search ‘viewqwest review’. Posted when I was still using the all in one seo plugin:
http://www.theaaronloy.com/viewqwest-review-top-3-reasons-to-avoid-viewqwest/
Name in front with ‘sanpoutei ramen’, page 4. New with yoast.
http://www.theaaronloy.com/sanpoutei-ramen-review/
I’ve included a screenshot of how they look like on google:
http://imgur.com/wbT5pD6
As you can see it’s my new post that has the name in front.
Thanks for your help btw =)
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a9fc
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I can’t seem to post with the links in here. I’ve included a screenshot of how they look like on google: screenshot
As you can see it’s my new post that has the name in front.
Thanks for your help btw =)
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a9fc
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ok, I just did a test again for ‘viewqwest’ and this time, the same link in the screenshot I sent you had my site’s name in the front. I guess that’s what you meant by google doing its thing based on search queries?
Looking at your source code, your titles do have your site title in the beginning:
<title>theAARONLOY / / | ViewQwest Review - Top 3 Reasons To Avoid Viewqwest - theAARONLOY / /</title>
So it’s not Google. Most likely Yoast conflicting a bit with your theme. Go to SEO > Titles and Metas > General tab. There’s an option to “Force rewrite titles”, if it is unchecked – check it. After you check it, look at your page’s source code. See what’s inside <title> tags. If it worked, than your site name should be gone.
