he titles in google for our website are showing wrong
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July 4, 2018 at 12:41 pm #437147
Dear support team,
The titles in google for our website are showing wrong. We have added titles in website in yoast and they are not showing. Please check the problem so that yoast plugin titles shown in Google.
Screenshot > https://www.screencast.com/t/jMtInEHD4
Please help to solve the issue to enable proper titles to be found in google search results.
Best, Alex
July 4, 2018 at 12:43 pm #437148This reply has been marked as private.July 4, 2018 at 1:26 pm #437159I have checked the settings.
What is the problem as you see it?
%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
is what you have set for ‘services’ CPT.
July 4, 2018 at 2:35 pm #437170Hi Alex,
• about different title
i.e. the title setup with yoast in GD > hospitality > Category > bar settings “Local Bars near Me, Local Bars around Me – Local Sports Bars”
are displayed with title “Bars – worldcheckin • EN” instead of setup within yoast plugin.
Sceenshot > https://www.screencast.com/t/lY7iZoZ9
Here the google search result URL• about category top description
why are those also not displayed on site after opening
sceenshot > https://www.screencast.com/t/hvXxHrTc5
I guees it is a css setting but I am actually unsure and just want to know why this is not displayed.Best, Alex
July 5, 2018 at 6:54 am #437206Hello,
I saw the links to the category settings, and looked at the Yoast settings there.
Where are you expecting to see that Title?
July 5, 2018 at 7:15 am #437214Hi Alex,
that title should be seen in google search results.
But not sure why not displayed as the setup in yoast title shall be found in google search results.Looking forward to your answer.
Best, Alex
July 5, 2018 at 3:16 pm #437260Yes but what URL is in your screencast there?
July 5, 2018 at 4:19 pm #437274URL:
https://www.worldcheckin.com/gastronomies/bars/
Screenshot
July 5, 2018 at 6:14 pm #437282Maybe it was cache?
view-source:https://www.worldcheckin.com/gastronomies/bars/
“worldcheckin • EN” doesn’t appear anywhere in there
Once content has been loaded to google it can take some time for it to be updated.
July 7, 2018 at 5:49 am #437409Hi Alex,
I have also created a support request at yoast plugin > https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-titles-in-google-for-our-website-are-showing-wrong/ and got this answer.
We understand that you are experiencing an issue in that the Title you have specified in the plugin settings is not displaying as expected in the search results for your site. Whereas Google typically uses the title from the metadata for indexing, this is not always the case. Google will sometimes modify the title of the URL as it sees fit, as well as sometimes adding the brand or sitename to the end of your title. This is not due to the plugin not functioning as expected, but rather is due to Google modifying the Title it indexes as it’s algorithm has concluded that there is a better version to index.
We also have additional information on this topic available at the following links: https://yoast.com/google-page-title/ and https://kb.yoast.com/kb/google-shows-different-titles-for-my-site/ . Please refer to these articles as the include recommendations for crafting a page title which will help increase the likelihood that Google will use the title you specified instead of modifying your page’s title as it sees fit.
So it seems it is a google problem we cannot solve:
So… Basically, Google says: we know better, you can try and write a title we like, but we reserve to do whatever to make people click on your result.Hmm – that is anoying.
Best, Alex
July 7, 2018 at 10:38 am #437421No doubt Yoast is annoyed by that, too! We should start a club 🙂
July 16, 2018 at 5:38 am #438573Hi again,
Do you may have any tips to solve that problem of wrong title display i.e. a setting that I have may missed?
Best, Alex
P.S. Here the yoast support request link (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-titles-in-google-for-our-website-are-showing-wrong/) to may interact also from your end.
July 16, 2018 at 7:52 am #438594I guess this is not a question of an option to set or not. It is the selection or definition of your title and tagline (title and description meta).
The title of your german frontpage is:
<title>Lokale Suche • Standorte, Angebote & Event Finder • Direktwerbeplattform</title>
For me this title does not tell me what your page is about. This is too general.
The meta description is looking okay for me:
<meta name="description" content="WCI ist ein Standort & Eventfinder für Reisende & Ortsfremde • eine Direktvermarktungplattform für Unternehmer, um Standorte, Events, Service- & Gutscheinangebote weltweit zu finden & zu vermarkten. Verwende die lokale Suche und finde ganz einfach lokale Angebote, Dienstleistungen, aktuelle Veranstaltungen in der Nähe">
You can initiate a new crawling for a single page and you can see what google will do on the SERPs out of the webmaster search console.
BTW: I see 10 console errors on your page which should be solved first.
July 16, 2018 at 7:54 am #438595July 16, 2018 at 1:15 pm #438634Hello,
I’m sorry but we don’t have control over what Google does when they create those titles or snippets inside their own DB.
As Dirk says, using the available tools to make ‘the best’ titles and meta you can is the best that is possible.
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