Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with the search results showing a "-" before your website title. This can happen due to various reasons, including how your titles are set up in the Rank Math plugin or how Google interprets your site’s metadata.
To address this, we recommend checking the following:
- Check Your Title Settings: Ensure that your titles are correctly set in the Rank Math settings. You can do this by navigating to the Rank Math MetaBox for your pages and posts.
- Homepage Settings: If this issue is occurring on your homepage, make sure you have set a specific page as your homepage under WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Reading.
- Google Search Console: Sometimes, Google may append characters based on its algorithms. You can check your site’s performance and any issues in Google Search Console.
If you would like us to check your settings directly, please reply to this ticket with your website URL, and a human agent from our team will assist you further.
Thank you for raising this concern!
Hello,
Thank you so much for getting in touch.
You can edit your Title meta by following this guide https://rankmath.com/kb/seo-meta-tags/
If you wish to change this globally, you can also follow this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/titles-and-meta/
If you’ve done the changes already and Google still hasn’t picked it up, please share some of the affected page URL here so we can take a closer look.
Looking forward to helping you.
On search result, still before website title it shows “-”.
website is http://www.louisdata.com
Hello,
We can see that you have updated the SEO title of your homepage, but Google has yet to reflect the same on its SERPs.
You might need to wait for the next Google recrawl of your site for them to update the data.
To speed up the process, you can use the Google URL Inspection Tool to request a recrawl of your website. This will tell Google to re-fetch your website data. You can find the tool here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289#request_indexing
We hope this helps. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.
Thank you.
Thanks for your support and one more thing is I want to hide page H1 title on website without effecting SEO, please help me.
Hello,
The H1 title is handled by your theme. A workaround you can try is to use CSS to visually hide it while keeping it accessible to search engines. Here’s a quick example you can add to your theme’s custom CSS:
.page h1 {
position: absolute;
left: -9999px;
}
This method keeps the H1 in your HTML (so search engines still see it) but hides it from visitors.
We hope that helps.
Hello,
Another method you can try is to check if your theme provides a built-in option to hide the page title. Many themes include this setting in the page editor or under Theme Options.
If that’s not available, you can also use a page builder (like Elementor or WPBakery) to disable the title on individual pages.
I’m using elementor and under page setting I did turned on at page title hide option but didn’t hide the title then I was change the “Theme” layout to “elementor with full width” then it’s work, page title gets hide but SEO report shows H1 is missing on page.
Please help at this point of contact.
Hello,
Since the SEO report now shows the H1 as missing, it means the title is no longer present in the HTML. To keep your SEO intact, we recommend manually adding an H1 using an Elementor Heading widget, then setting it to the same text as your original page title.
This way, the H1 remains in the code for search engines, but you still have full control over its appearance or placement on the page.
We hope this helps.
Yes I tried but for this heading widget there is no page title hide option. I’m using Royal addon templates also.
Hello,
In that case, you can contact your theme author as they are in the best position to assist you with that.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any other questions.
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.
