Title Tag Issue and Google

what is the input in your SEO plugin?
this will possibly be shown in the meta title tag.

also, the image title attribute is set to LLC:
<div id="logo"><a href="https://www.garageflooringllc.com/" title="Garage Flooring LLC" rel="home"><img src="https://www.garageflooringllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/garage-flooring-logo4.png" alt="" /></a></div><!-- end #logo -->

Yoast WordPress SEO . If you goto the home page https://www.garageflooringllc.com and look at the source code the plugin does not appear to be doing anything unusual.

<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin v1.1.5 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/ -->

Justin Krauss

the question is if you are using the plugin to create the meta title tag, and if, what is the setting/value for your site title within the plugin settings?

there is no output of ‘LLC TM’ in your site’s meta title tag.

if you think it is a theme issue, please contact the seller of your commercial theme for support.

the question is if you are using the plugin to create the meta title tag, and if, what is the setting/value for your site title within the plugin settings?

So this is where I get lost.

YES we use the plugin to create the TITLE tags on INDIVIDUAL pages and the page which is set to the index page has a proper title tag on it. When you goto the home page that title shows up in the browser header, in the code, everywhere except SERPS.

On the setting page it says

Homepage & Front page

You can determine the title and description for the front page by editing the front page itself ?.

You can determine the title and description for the blog page by editing the blog page itself ?

and the title tags are properly set within that page

if you think it is a theme issue, please contact the seller of your commercial theme for support.

At this point I can’t call this a commercially made theme. We did start with one some time ago and never had this issue but we have completely modified all the code, etc at this point

When you goto the home page that title shows up in the browser header

ok, that sounds as if the SEO plugin is working fine.

what the search engines do with the output is outside of WordPress’ influence – have you contacted google directly to inquire why the used meta title is not shown in the search results?

Sorry but we do not support commercial themes as you paid for support when you bought the theme.

Sorry but we do not support commercial themes as you paid for support when you bought the theme.

Thats what I am saying. This may have been a commercial theme to start but now its our own doing ??

ok, that sounds as if the SEO plugin is working fine.

what the search engines do with the output is outside of WordPress’ influence – have you contacted google directly to inquire why the used meta title is not shown in the search results?

That has always been my understanding in a straight HTML site. I guess the root of the question is is there generally a site title that overrules the page title that may be controlled by WP itself

No. It’s all controlled by your theme.

No. It’s all controlled by your theme

so a theme, any theme, can have a piece of code where the site title it sends to google overrides the individual page title?

Is there a specific META TAG on my home page you could point me to so I can work backwards?

so a theme, any theme, can have a piece of code where the site title it sends to google overrides the individual page title?

Yep. Try looking in the <title></title> of your theme’s header.php template file.

I see two possibilities

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We think google might be using the value from this page

https://sitename/wp-admin/options-general.php
SITE TITLE

I guess we wont know until Google re indexes it.

(Moderator thanks for bearing with me I have only used the support once before)

No – Google will be using the title that is being supplied by your theme/generated pages.

Thanks. Changed it here too

https://sitename/wp-admin/themes.php?page=admin-options.php