Wrong Title SEO indexed

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  • Resolved Solomon
    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    My website gets the wrong titles indexed on Google. It should show the Title SEO that I assign in the setting under each post but it does not.
    It actually shows the title of the post plus (+) the H1 (title of article) of the latest post in the Recent Post section on my website.

    I included some data for you to have a look at it below.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Solomon.
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  • Hello,

    ​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.

    Thank you for the support but I think you got my idea a bit wrong here.
    And to be specific, I do understand the concept of “Google still decides to show a different meta title/description for my search keyword”. My website is working fine, title and description are set up correctly.

    However, as you can see on 3 pictures that the title appears on Search results are the title of the mentioned post plus (+) the H1 (title of article) of the latest post in the Recent Post section on my website.

    As you mention above, if Google shows the meta title in its way then it should show the title of my article plus (+) the title of my website (whole website) not the title of the latest post on my recent post section.

    This issues happens for a while and now I think I need support on this.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Solomon.
    Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    I think we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
    Sensitive Data Section

    It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

    You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

    We really look forward to helping you.

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    I checked it and your settings seem fine. I also checked some posts in Google and it seems also fine, as you can see in one screenshot I added in the Sensitive Data section. Could you check it?

    Looking forward to help you.

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further? I added some more clues for you to check, including pictures and URLs indexed in Google.

    Thank you.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Solomon.
    Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    ​It seems it is only happening when you type “site:” in the Googel Search Results. For every other situation, it shows the right one. Remember if 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.

    I know about the thing where Google shows different meta titles and meta descriptions. However, when I was with Yoast SEO, there’s no such thing happens. And on top of that, the additional text added to my indexed title is not the right text such as my site’s title that should be showed on Google result.

    I think there’s something wrong with Rankmath. If you cannot help me then I must deactivate Rankmath. I’m sure that there’s no such issue when I’m with others.

    Thank you!

    Hello Solomon,

    Unfortunately there is nothing much we can do more than we have already done. Google algorithms sometimes ignore your added meta and uses one of its own choice if it seems fitting the search term/keyword.

    I have attached a screencast in the sensitive section to show you, I have tested one of your link and depending on my search, Google shows a different meta description.

    If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.

    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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