Sitename in Google Search Results

Hello, I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing with your website name showing as a previous name in Google search results. It seems like you’ve already updated the site name in Rank Math and WordPress, but it’s still displaying the old name.

To ensure that Google displays the correct site name, you need to update the site name in the WebSite structured data on your site. Here’s how you can do it:

1. If you have Rank Math, navigate to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO and enable the Schema module.
   

2. Once done, head over to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Local SEO and fill in the required fields, including the Website Name and Website Alternate Name if applicable.
   

After updating this information, you may need to wait for Google to crawl your site or follow some best practices to inform Google of the update and get your site crawled quicker.

If you’ve already made these changes and are still experiencing issues, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.

We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to resolve this issue for you.

Sources:
Why Google Displays URL Instead of Site Name in SERP? » Rank Math
How to Setup Rank Math SEO Plugin Properly
Google Shows A Different Meta Title/Description For My Site » Rank Math

Hello,

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

Please head over to your WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Status & Tools > Database Tools > and click the Clear SEO Analysis and Remove Transients buttons to flush the SEO Analysis cache.

Once done, clear your website and any server-level caching on your site before doing the SEO analysis again.

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

Please note that Google uses a machine learning algorithm to generate the Sitename for your pages based on other information it has collected about your website and your industry.

We would suggest to keep on mentioning the desired title on both the title of the page and the schema structure (which our plugin automatically adds after configuring the Local SEO settings in Rank Math > Titles & Meta).

Also, please go through the Google guidelines about the site name to help you increase the chances of displaying the desired site name on the SERP: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/site-names

Moreover, it is completely up to Google, and even if your site has followed all the guidelines, they can still decide to show a different or no site name. You should keep working on improving your site’s content quality and authority to increase the chances of your site name appearing in the SERPs.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

The report you see from the SEO Analyzer has nothing to do with the current information shown on the SERP.

As long as you already added the preferred keyword or name of your website within content, meta tags, and schema, it’s up to Google to honor that.

You may give it a couple of days and let us know if you see any improvements on the SERP.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Thank you for your patience.

Content means on your posts/blog posts, and pages where you are mentioning your site name anywhere in the paragraph or headers.

In meta tags, the site name is already correctly outputted by Rank Math and you can check the page source as well and search for this tag:

<meta property="og:site_name" content="ThoughtStretchers Education" />

You will also notice in your schema that Rank Math already adds the site name under the Organization property:

script type="application/ld+json" class="rank-math-schema">{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://wegrowteachers.com/#organization","name":"ThoughtStretchers Education"

As we have previously mentioned, it is still completely up to Google, and even if your site has followed all the guidelines, they can decide to show a different or no site name.

You should keep working on improving your site’s content quality and authority to increase the chances of your site name appearing in the SERPs.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Thank you for your patience.

Please ensure that the Local SEO module is enabled on your WordPress dashboard > Rank Math > Dashboard

And that you have already included your sitename and altername on these fields

If you have already done that, then it is already up to Google if they decide to show your desired sitename on the search results pages.

As Google states in its guidelines:

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Since you have already followed all the guidelines to add the site name in the meta tags and Schema, you will have to wait for Google to decide to show it in the SERPs. If they don’t want to show it, then there is nothing else you can do.

You should also add the Website Alternate Name that is different than the Website Name in the Local SEO settings of our plugin and see if Google picks that and starts to show it in the SERPs.

Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Hello,

No, the field should have a different name. If you don’t have an alternate name, then you should keep the field empty and wait for Google to start showing your sitename in the SERPs.

Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.