Google Not Showing Title as Entered in Yoast

Hi @elwalker,

We can also confirm that the title is correct in the source code, but not showing in Google search results.

To solve the problem when Google ignores your preferred title, we recommend using the Request Indexing tool in the Google Search Console. You can find more details and the steps to do this in this guide: My SEO title isn’t showing as I have entered it.

Thank you. I’ve been through this article before. It is search term manipulation. But what I can’t understand is why this only seems to happen to me when using Yoast. If I use another SEO plugin it shows the title at the end. Very strange.

I now seem to remember someone saying Google does this when the title tag is too long. I will try to bring it within the character length and see if that works.

Many thanks.

@elwalker We also have additional information on this topic available at the following links: https://yoast.com/google-page-title/

Please refer to that article as the included recommendations for crafting a page title will help increase the likelihood that Google will use the title you specified instead of modifying your page’s title as it sees fit.

Thanks. The content of that article was very similar to the other one posted above. None of this solves my issue. I’ve reduced the character count but Google is still displaying as:

Dog Friendly Retreats: Dog Friendly Cottages & Holidays

This is for the home page.

Most other pages display as intended. But Google likes to show site name at the beginning, even though I’ve placed at the end in Yoast settings.

I’ve seen this on several other sites using Yoast.

Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Hi @elwalker,

Since everything checks out in the page source and you’ve already tried recommendations like using the Request Indexing tool, there may be something else causing Google to ignore your preferred title.

Since it can take time for search results to update, if nothing changes in about a week, you may be able to get more specific recommendations by posting on the Google Search Console support forum here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/community.