Category Appear in SEO title in serp

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  • Resolved Sadeq Omar
    Rank Math free

    hello rankmath, I noticed that some of my posts have the category name appearing in the SEO title in serp, I am sure that I made the setting to prevent this but it still happening

    I want to know to solve this problem, thank you…

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention.

    I’ve checked your site, and it seems that the categories you are referring to are actual category archives pages. Please check the screenshot I’ve attached in the sensitive data section.

    Could you please confirm if they are the ones you are referring to as posts showing the category? Correct me if I’m wrong.

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Thank you.

    Yes, it’s the exact issue. please note: the problem is not only with pages and archives but also with some of the blog posts where that category name appears after the website name in the post title, please check the Sensitive Data section.

    Thank you.

    Hello,

    Thanks for getting back.

    I checked your posts & pages and all the meta data and Schema data are set correctly.

    Since all the settings are fine, you just need to wait for Google to crawl your pages again and identify & index 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 from the page’s content that matches the search intent better.

    Here are some of the common reasons Google might not use the meta description you provided:
    The meta description is not relevant or useful (ie, just a collection of keywords).
    The exact same meta description is provided across a large number of pages.
    The meta description doesn’t match what the user is searching for, but other content on the page does.

    There is a whole article dedicated to this on SearchEngineJournal:
    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-offers-suggestions-for-avoiding-meta-description-rewrites/359884/

    Here is an example showing Google changes title depending on the keyword used:
    description
    &
    description 2

    The best you can do is optimize your meta tags to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.

    Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know.

    I will be submitting the posts again to Google in the coming few days, thank you.

    Hello,

    I have removed the image.

    Here is the way to check when Google has last crawled your pages:

    For that, please check when the Google cache was updated for that page:
    a. cache
    b. cached

    Hope this helps. Let us know if you need any further assistance.

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