Google is Adding Site Name: to listed Google Title

  • Resolved glennyboy

    (@glennyboy)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hi
    Looking at your support forum I’m not sure if this is a case where Google is forcing its own rewrite of the page title in the listings, but we are getting the ‘Site Title:’ and then the set ‘SEO title’ set for the home page. The site name is simply the company name and not as important as the set page title and we are probably losing good SEO as a consequence.

    In Google it reads:
    German Language Coach: German Tutors London | Private German …
    In Yoast it is set as:-
    German Tutors London | Private German Lessons London | German Language Coach

    The site is built on Twenty Twelve but the child them header is using:-
    <title><?php wp_title(' '); ?></title>

    Your input on why Google is not displaying correct title is appreciated.

    Thanks
    Glennyboy

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  • Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    When checking the page source of https://www.languagecoach.co.uk/, we do see that the <title> tag is set to:

    German Tutors London | Private German Lessons London | German Language Coach

    When doing a SITE: search on Google, it displays the title as:

    German Language Coach: German Tutors London | Private German …

    Upon checking, it’s a cached version from October 28, 2018. Did you just recently make the change in the title? You can refer to this KB article for more information — https://kb.yoast.com/kb/google-shows-different-titles-for-my-site/

    Thread Starter glennyboy

    (@glennyboy)

    Hi @mikes41720

    Thanks for the check.

    The update was made prior to that (19/10/18) cached version and on checking it still prepends German Language Coach: as opposed to the actual site title as you have identified.

    We updated from All in One SEO to Yoast and prior to that, we did not have this behaviour in the listings?

    Thanks

    Glennyboy

    MariusG

    (@marius_codeinwp)

    Hi @glennyboy,

    We’d recommend fetching the URL as Googlebot to make sure that Google is able to detect the same <title> tag. If it is the same to the one you’ve set using Yoast SEO, then there’s not much else you can do. Ultimately search engines will, as you have seen, make the final decision on what they show in their search results.

    Thread Starter glennyboy

    (@glennyboy)

    Yes already performed a new fetch. Hopefully, Google will pick up the correct title soon.

    We’ll be leaving this thread open for about a week. We’ll have to wait for Google to crawl your site again. It can take up to a week for Google to index the changes you made, depending on how often your website is crawled.

    Thread Starter glennyboy

    (@glennyboy)

    Google has crawled and still the site title appends the actual programmed SEO title. Any ideas, please?

    Thread Starter glennyboy

    (@glennyboy)

    Same behaviour on another new site using Yoast SEO: https://snowglobeexperience.com/ (keyword Snowglobe Experience) – ‘Site title: Actual Title’ in Google. Both sites are using different themes/code so that not it, so why is Yoast doing this?

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