Title and meta descriptions not shown in SERPs

Hello, I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing issues with your titles and meta descriptions not showing up in the SERPs as expected. It’s frustrating when Google displays different titles and descriptions than the ones you’ve set up using Rank Math.

It’s great that you’ve already checked for indexing issues and confirmed that Google has indexed the most recent versions of your URLs. This narrows down the issue to something else preventing Google from fetching the titles and meta descriptions from Rank Math.

To address this, we need to ensure that your schema settings are valid and that the title and description are properly set in the page’s source code. You can follow the steps outlined in our knowledge base articles to verify these settings:

1. Ensure Your Schema Settings Are Valid
2. Check the Title/Description Set in the Page’s Source Code

By following these steps, you can confirm that your SEO title and description are correctly set up via Rank Math and are being used for your page’s structured data. Additionally, checking the title and description in the page’s source code will help identify any discrepancies.

If you continue to experience issues after verifying these settings, please provide us with the screenshots you mentioned, and we’ll be happy to assist you further.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and we appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue for you.

Sources:
Google Shows A Different Meta Title/Description For My Site » Rank Math
General Tab in Meta Box of Rank Math SEO Plugin
How to Show Images in the Search Results » Rank Math
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Hello,

Thanks for contacting us, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

We checked your website homepage with the site: operator and we can see that the meta title and description you set have been updated on Google as shown in the images below:

Google Search Engine Result:

Page Source Image:

Checking using Rank Math Meta Tag Analyzer: https://rankmath.com/tools/meta-tag-analyzer/

Please note that even when everything is set up correctly, Google may choose to display a different meta title and description for search query results. Google may skip the custom metadata you have set and instead display something from the page’s content that better matches the search intent. What to show in search results is solely determined by Google.

Please check the KB and you will understand the reasons Google does this: https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/

Also, Google has made some changes to their algorithm which automatically changes the titles, discarding the one you have set in your SEO title meta tag. This happens regardless of the SEO plugin you are using. We have covered this Google update here:

https://rankmath.com/google-update/google-title-rewrite-update/

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Thank you.

Hello,

We are glad to know that this issue has been resolved. Thank you for letting us know.

This ticket will be closed now, but you can always open a new one if you have any other questions or concerns. We are here to help you with anything related to Rank Math.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation throughout this process.

Thank you for choosing Rank Math.