Site title not showing on Custom Post Type

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  • Resolved Jack
    Rank Math free

    Hi,
    I have a cpt called ‘Documentation’. I have Rank Math SEO set to show the site title on single page articles within this cpt. For some reason though, the site title doesn’t show in the title tag – only the post title shows in the title tag.

    Do you know why this might be?

    Thanks,
    Jack

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  • Sajid Khan
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
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    ​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:


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    ​2. Then, ensure that this is the setting in the Schema tab if Rich Snippets are enabled on your website:
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    ​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:
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    ​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.
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    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,
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    ​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.

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    Jack
    Rank Math free

    Thanks. I was able to work out, with your pointers, that the meta box below each custom post type post had just %title%. Not sure why as I had never set that. I just removed that and it defaulted to the settings in the main Rank Math SEO > Settings part of the plugin. I resaved each one and it fixed the issue.

    Thanks for your help!
    Jack

    Sajid Khan
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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