Title tags and meta description not updating

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  • Resolved Rudi Juliens

    3 years, 7 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi
    Rank Math is an amazing plugin, the best out there! With that said, there is a little problem that we do not understand. Our website “pumpshop24” is an wordpress ecommerce website with lot’s of products and categories.
    After initial setup we saw that our main page did not use the correct seperator and title but all of our other pages do. Our main page used “Pumpshop24: Home”. Our seperator was “-” but google search show it as “:”. We then changed the title and the meta description to something like “Pumpshop24 – Beste pompen, lijmen en tuinartikelen”. It updates in the wordpress interface but when we search for our site on google we still see “Pumpshop24: Home” which is quite ugly and the description is also not updated. How do we update this?
    We tried to go to “wordpress dashboard -> settings -> permalinks” and pressed save and we tried to go to “wordpress dashboard -> rankmath -> general settings -> search console” and pressed save. Nothing changed. We do not have a cache plugin and we tried to update the cache manually via rankmath general settings but nothing has changed since.
    How do we update this so that it show the correct title and descrition?

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  • Michael Davis

    3 years, 7 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for getting in touch with us.
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    1. Please 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/

    2. 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.

    RankBot

    3 years, 6 months ago

    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.

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