• Resolved shinnmoon

    (@shinnmoon)


    Hello,
    I have experienced a weird problem with my site and i cannot fix it.

    The problem is the page title in the google search result is completely irrelevant to that page, you can’t even find these words in that specific page.

    For example, you search ‘best free wordpress themes’ in google, one of your site appears in the results like :
    https://www.wp.com/themes/ [First line]
    CocoCola is the best [The irrelevant title]
    The best free wordpress theme is astra [The page description is correct]

    It happens to three of my pages as i can see now, i believe there’re more but i do not see them yet.

    Site title and tagline is set all well in the website dashboard.

    Those page titles in SEO setting are all correctly written as i wished.

    I have switched the browser from chrome to firefox, the question remains there, browser cache is cleared.

    I am wondering to know why is this happening? Why these pages have this irrevelant words?

    Thank you in advance if anyone can help me out, this is really drive me crazy.

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  • Plugin Author Rank Math

    (@rankmath)

    Hello @shinnmoon,

    Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    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: https://i.rankmath.com/dhECkg
    Add title and description in Gutenberg: https://i.rankmath.com/ZO21Cd

    2. Then, ensure that this is the setting in the Schema tab if Schema Markup module is enabled on your website:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pG0pcS

    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. https://i.rankmath.com/9q6X0H
    b. https://i.rankmath.com/R8N0Uh

    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, then you just have to wait it out and there is no further input needed from your end.

    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.

    Here are some of the common reasons Google might not use the meta description you provided:
    – The meta description is not relevant or useful (ie, just a collection of keywords).
    – The exact same meta description is provided across a large number of pages.
    – The meta description doesn’t match what the user is searching for, but other content on the page does.

    There is a whole article dedicated to this on SearchEngineJournal:
    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-offers-suggestions-for-avoiding-meta-description-rewrites/359884/

    Here is an example showing Google changes title depending on the keyword used:
    https://i.rankmath.com/oT6VQe
    &
    https://i.rankmath.com/Mrhb0x

    The best you can do is optimize your meta tags to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.

    Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know.

    Thread Starter shinnmoon

    (@shinnmoon)

    Hi,
    It’s been two weeks, the problem remains there even though i tried to change the title and description.
    What i can tell you that is i didn’t change the meta description before i noticed this problem, i simply update the plugins every week, nothing more.
    Honestly i am very disappointed at this plugin, it ever broke my site before and now nearly half of my pages have such irrevelant words after the page title, this is ridiculous.

    Plugin Author Rank Math

    (@rankmath)

    Hello @shinnmoon

    We are sorry that you are facing that issue.

    Can you please link us to your website?

    Also, please read the section titled:
    Why the search result title might differ from the page’s <title> tag
    Here:
    https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/good-titles-snippets#why-the-search-result-title-might-differ-from-the-pages-title-tag

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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