How to change the name above the URL link on Google Search

Unfortunately, your screenshot is no longer available. You are welcome to upload one to https://imgur.com.

When I search for your page, the result looks like this:

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So actually everything is correct. What you describe points to a problem with the page title. But it is set correctly on your page. I would therefore be interested in your screenshot to correctly identify the problem.

Hello thank you so much for your prompt reply! Here’s a screenshot on both websites (Walmart vs. Own Site):

https://imgur.com/a/fjrZQnY

I’ve never seen these symbols in a google search. Do you have a plugin in your browser that supplements this? Or does that happen no matter which browser you use?

Is it the blue arrow icon? I added that purposely to note the difference

Hey there,

I believe that your WordPress Title is set to the domain name itself, instead of the Company name.

You can set the WordPress title here: https://wordpress.com/support/customizer/#site-identity

Although for Google, you might need to recrawl, which can take some time.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/ask-google-to-recrawl

@littlebrighttoys: No, I mean the sad looking star next to your search result. I don’t know anything like that from Google.

@povilask: he doesn’t use WordPress.COM and the page title is already neatly set to “Little Bright Toys – Wooden Toys for Kids” as you can see in the source code of his page.

@povilask: Thanks for your help but I’m not using wordpress.com for this site though..

@threadi: Sorry about that. The favicon you mean? Maybe because I’m using mac? I’m not sure if it affects the search results.

Also had this view today on a cell phone. I rarely search mobile ??

A research on this showed that Google shows the favicon in the search results – only on mobile devices. What you see in your screenshot of Walmart matches the RichSnippet indication to their organization. It looks like this for them:

<script nonce="CGyivTayiJTWeHJ_" type="application/ld+json">{"@context": "https://schema.org","@type": "Organization", "name": "Walmart", "url": "https://www.walmart.com/", "logo": "https://i5.walmartimages.com/dfw/63fd9f59-b3e1/7a569e53-f29a-4c3d-bfaf-6f7a158bfadd/v1/walmartLogo.svg"}</script>

The logo matches the graphic in your screenshot, the “name” of the organization matches the name you see there. I can’t find a post from Google on this right now, but can reproduce it on other websites. Where such a RichSnippet specification is available, Google uses it in the results on mobile.

You would therefore have to add such a RichSnippet to your organization on your website. This can be done with Yoast or RankMath or various other plugins.

Hello @littlebrighttoys ,

I have the same issue as you. Did you find a solution to that? I don’t know where it comes from ??

Best regards,

@blurry7923: please open your own topic for your own issue: https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/#new-topic-0

Hello @threadi ,

If he had the same issue, why couldn’t he reply on the post-mortem?

Your replies in the thread were completely off-topic.

Any updates to this? I’m having the same problem after a brand name change. There is nothing in my page source with this old name. I was looking for a new thread based on the replies

Hi @murthax ,

On my side, few weeks after my message, Google changed suddenly from the url to the name of the website. Maybe it is just a question of patience.

Is there any updates on this topic? I too have the url rather than business name. What is that snippet even called, this seems to be the only post addressing it!