Title Tag current year

Hello,

Thanks for contacting us.

To add the current month and year to the SEO title (title tag) of pages, please head over to your WordPress admin area > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Pages, and add the %currentmonth% & %currentyear% in the Single Page Title field.

Here’s a screencast for a quick reference:
https://i.rankmath.com/ZzFF8m

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

Could you confirm if you’ve created the “Custom Title Tags” using a filter like this one?
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#change-the-title

If not, then please explain what you mean by the custom title tags, so that we can assist you accordingly.

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

You can do that by heading over to your WordPress admin area > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Pages, and add the %currentmonth% & %currentyear% in the Single Page Title field as previously mentioned by my colleague.

You can use the following filter to get your job done.

Paste the filter inside your theme’s function.php file.

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/title', function( $title ) {
$curYear = date('Y'); 
$curMonth = date('M');

	return $title .$curYear." ".$curMonth;
});

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

You can slightly modify the code provided by my colleague to get the spaces with brackets and change the position of month and year.

Please replace the previous code with the below one and see if it gets you the desired result:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/title', function( $title ) {
  $curYear = date('Y'); 
  $curMonth = date('M');
  return $title . " [" .$curMonth." ".$curYear. "]";
});

For the translation of the month name, could you confirm if you’re using the String translations of WPML or any other tool that translates the meta title to German?

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

That’s completely normal for Google to include your site name in the titles automatically – even if you deliberately leave them out from your titles.

Here’s an article mentioning that as well.
https://seo-gold.com/marcus-lemonis-website-seo-review/google-automatically-adds-brand-name-to-titles/

And a link to Google’s forums with replies from Experts saying that it is like that on purpose:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/5328043?hl=en&msgid=5328043

If you wish to know Google’s guidelines on writing Good titles, here are the guidelines straight from the horse’s mouth:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en

With that said, it largely depends on keyword intent too. For some keyword searches, your custom title might appear while for others – Google might append your brand name to the title and there is nothing you can do to force them to do otherwise. That is regardless of what SEO plugin you use.

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Thank you.