Hi, I am facing following issues
1. In google search result SERP metatitle, two post titles are shown one after another. There should be only one title as meta title.
2. In google search result SERP metadescription, given excerpt/desscription is not shown. Instead of that, content within the post is visible.
3. Sitemap is showing only 58 posts out of 61.
I tried with setting and cache. Help will be appreciated.
Search result 1 for reference-
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=625&sxsrf=ALeKk03qhqhM4zRcn0nNLQB-0w-NX1xqyw%3A1588251474506&ei=UsuqXoK7HqHWz7sPyZO9oAE&q=buddhist+boy+babynamesatoz&oq=buddhist+boy+babynamesatoz&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIFCAAQzQIyBQgAEM0CMgUIABDNAjoECAAQRzoGCAAQDRAKOggIABAIEA0QHlDoYFipfmDAiAFoAHABeACAAdMEiAH3FJIBBzItOS41LTGYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiCrM7nmZDpAhUh63MBHclJDxQQ4dUDCAw&uact=5
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This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by
Deovrut Jadhav. Reason: site name
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This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by
Alberto.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Thanks 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/HwXR1o
You 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 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> tag
Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hi alberto,
1. I does the same process for metatitle and meta description in “Edit snippet” section at right side column. https://www.heymeta.com/ tool also shows perfect title & description. Do i need to put description again?
2.Also my sitemap is not picking all posts. It picked 58 posts only.
Yes that’s the SeRP position 1 which I am talking about. I just checked that my activation email id for rank math is j************@g********.
Hello,
Could you add to the Sensitive Data section your website URL so we can check everything with detail?
Looking forward to help you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hi,
This is the title that Rank Math is outputting:
100 Top Buddhist Boy Names
And this is the meta description:
This is list of top Buddhist boy names. It contains buddhist baby names in Pali and Marathi also.
If Google is choosing to show something different, that is outside of anyone’s control.
Also, please link us to the posts that are not showing up in the sitemap so we can check. Do note that if the posts are marked as noindex, they will not show up in the sitemaps.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
Thanks for getting in touch with us.
It seems like you are serving a cached version of your sitemap to Google and your visitors. I checked your post’s source code and found you are using W3 Total Cache.
You must add all the sitemap file locations to the exclusion list in your Cache plugin so that the sitemaps are never cached. These are the files you must add to the exclusion list:
sitemap_index.xml
post-sitemap.xml
page-sitemap.xml
category-sitemap.xml
product-sitemap.xml
This is required since Sitemaps are already cached internally by Rank Math and we flush them everytime you post something new and with our cache – you won’t see the issue you are seeing in Google.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
The setting in W3 total cache is complicated.
Can I follow following guide for exclusion?
https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/prevent-wordpress-sitemap-cache/
I also use cloudflare. Do I need to change setting there also?
Hi,
Yes, you can follow that guide.
Yes, you will need to add the sitemap files in the exclusion list on CloudFlare as well.
Hope that helps.
Hi Todd,
I have done setting in W3TC as per link. But to I am struggling while changing sitemap cache settings in Cloudflare. I don’t find any manual for that. Kindly provide resources if any.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
