Title index

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. We checked on the page and did confirm that Yoast is outputting title as the following in the source code:

<title>Agence Web et Print Bourg en Bresse | ClicAInfo Bourg en Bresse</title>

However, we do see that this is not the title that Google is indexing in a search here. 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.

n fact, this display problem in Google occurred after a Yoast Seo update and impacted most of my websites.

Hi,

We can see that Yoast is outputting the right title on the page https://www.clicainfo.fr/. See image: https://pasteboard.co/IYsCX7P.jpg.

We understand Google is not showing the right title. In this manner, we can only say the following:

1. If you have a handful of URLs you may be able to get Google to show the right one by using Inspect Any URL. This guide explains more: https://kb.yoast.com/article/108-fetch-as-googlebot

2. If you have a lot of URLs you will nee to wait for Google to re-crawl the site.

3. However, waiting for Google to recrawl the site or using inspect any URL is no guarantee that Google will use your title. Google may still decide to create its own and there is not much you can do about it other than improve it using this guide: https://yoast.com/help/google-shows-different-titles-for-my-site/#ignored

In this manner, we can only say that Yoast is outputting the right title and it is up to Google to ultimately show it or not.

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Thanks for understanding!