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Hello,
I have a quick question for you.
Google sees title for our home page as “Sitename: Title” instead of “Title | Sitename”….. All the other pages are okay; the only different thing is the schema. All of our pages are “article”, and our homepage is “service”. I looked around the files, and found the only difference in settings->titles, in post-type.php,
$cmb->add_field(
[
‘id’ => ‘pt_’ . $post_type . ‘_title’,
‘type’ => ‘text’,
/* translators: post type name */
‘name’ => sprintf( esc_html__( ‘Single %s Title’, ‘rank-math’ ), $name ),
/* translators: post type name */
‘desc’ => sprintf( esc_html__( ‘Default title tag for single %s pages. This can be changed on a per-post basis on the post editor screen.’, ‘rank-math’ ), $name ),
‘classes’ => ‘rank-math-supports-variables rank-math-title’,
‘default’ => ‘%title% %page% %sep% %sitename%’,
‘attributes’ => [ ‘data-exclude-variables’ => ‘seo_title,seo_description’ ],
‘sanitization_cb’ => [ ‘\RankMath\CMB2’, ‘sanitize_textfield’ ],
and for homepage.php:
cmb->add_field(
[
‘id’ => ‘homepage_title’,
‘type’ => ‘text’,
‘name’ => esc_html__( ‘Homepage Title’, ‘rank-math’ ),
‘desc’ => esc_html__( ‘Homepage title tag.’, ‘rank-math’ ),
‘classes’ => ‘rank-math-supports-variables rank-math-title’,
‘default’ => ‘%sitename% %page% %sep% %sitedesc%’,
‘sanitization_cb’ => [ ‘\RankMath\CMB2’, ‘sanitize_textfield’ ],
‘attributes’ => [ ‘data-exclude-variables’ => ‘seo_title,seo_description’ ],
]
If we change homepage.php to:
cmb->add_field(
[
‘id’ => ‘homepage_title’,
‘type’ => ‘text’,
‘name’ => esc_html__( ‘Homepage Title’, ‘rank-math’ ),
‘desc’ => esc_html__( ‘Homepage title tag.’, ‘rank-math’ ),
‘classes’ => ‘rank-math-supports-variables rank-math-title’,
‘default’ => ‘%title% %page% %sep% %sitename%’,
‘sanitization_cb’ => [ ‘\RankMath\CMB2’, ‘sanitize_textfield’ ],
‘attributes’ => [ ‘data-exclude-variables’ => ‘seo_title,seo_description’ ],
]
Would it fix the problem? If not, what would fix this problem? I did enter the title manually in “Schema” tab, instead of “%seo_title%”…. it didn’t help either. I also looked into snippets PHP files, and I did not see anything there, besides pointing to this file.
Thank you for your help,
Alexis.
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Hello Alexis,
Thank you for getting in touch with us.
1. First of all, I am assuming that you have already changed the SEO Meta Title and Meta Description with the help of Rank Math:
Add a Meta Description in Classic Editor:Add title and description in Gutenberg:
2. Then, ensure that this is the setting in the Schema tab if Rich Snippets are enabled on your website:
To reiterate, the Schema title must show %seo_title% and the description should show %seo_description% – this will ensure your SEO title and SEO Description that you set up via Rank Math can also be used for your schema details:
3. The next step is to check if your title/description is properly set up in the page source:
https://i.rankmath.com/HwXR1oYou can use this tool for the same as well: https://www.heymeta.com/
4. If it matches your settings, then you must check if Google has seen the changes already or not.
For that, please check when the Google cache was updated for that page:
a.
b.
If the cache date is from before adding the new meta description, then you just have to wait for Google to re-crawl and re-index the page with the new info. If the date is after you made the changes,
Do note that if everything’s fine and Google still decides to show a different meta title/description for your search keyword, there is nothing you can do as Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and show something they feel it matches the search intent better.The best you can do is optimize your meta tags to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.
You can read more about it here
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en
This section sheds light on that:
Why the search result title might differ from the page's <title> tagHope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know.
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