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I have been using the Rank Math plugin for a long time. However, Google indexed the description of the site alongside the “Site Name” in the titles of the pages and articles a while ago. No setting changes have been made for a long time. If I’m not mistaken, it might have happened after the version of WordPress 5.5. To explain with an example;
Site name: Example
Site description (only the part that appears in the homepage title): The best examplePreviously and newly indexed pages;
Post name – Example (Site name)
There are such indexes. However, some of them have changed as in the example below.
Broken titles;
Post name – Example (Site name) – Example(Site name) – The best example (Site description)
There is no such configuration in Rank Math settings. The current structure is as follows.
When I examine the pages that have the title indexed incorrectly, the title element in the source code is defined correctly.
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Hello,
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Rank math is correctly adding your meta to your page.You can check and confirm this by checking your page source:
https://i.rankmath.com/HwXR1oYou can use this tool for the same as well: https://www.heymeta.com/
You must also check if Google has seen the changes already or not.
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For that, please check when the Google cache was updated for that page:
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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,
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​Do note that if everything’s fine and Google still decides to show a different meta title/description, 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.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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