RankMath Meta title overwritten

#653488
  • Resolved Anonymous
    Rank Math free

    Hello!
    A couple of days ago I changed the theme of my website and since then it seems that the rankmath rules (regarding meta titles and meta descriptions) are being overwritten. For example… I have an article with the name “this is an example” and in the rankmath rules I have set to show in the meta title only the parameter %title% however, in the SERPS it is to be shown “this is an example %sep% %sitename%” where also… the %sep% is different from the one I have in my Rankmath configuration.

    What could be happening?

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

    I’ve checked the page, and its title and meta description tags are already shown correctly in the page’s source code.

    You can also verify that using these tools:
    https://heymeta.com
    https://rankmath.com/tools/meta-tag-analyzer/

    Please note that Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and shows something from the page’s content that matches the search intent better. In this case, the best you can do is optimize your meta title and description to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.

    Here’s a link for more information:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/

    Hope that helps.

    Thank you.

    Anonymous
    Rank Math free

    Hello Reinelle, thank you for your reply.

    If I am aware that in the code of my page everything is OK, I checked several times before even thinking of opening a support ticket. Likewise, I know that Google can modify meta titles and descriptions to match the user’s search intent, however, the only thing that is changing in the meta titles of my site is the %sep% parameter that is not being added anywhere, so it doesn’t seem that google is trying to match the search intent.

    Since there have been some recent updates to the tool, I thought it might be something related. If you have any other ideas I would be very grateful.

    Best regards.

    Hello,

    We’ve checked the cached version of your page and we can see Google is crawling the correct version of the meta title but still adding the separator and your site name in the SERPs. Please check the screenshot in the sensitive data section for your reference.

    You can check this article for more details on this issue:
    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-changes-more-than-61-percent-of-title-tags/435618/

    Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

    Thank you.

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