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Google preview doesn’t match SEO title in Google Search Results
I know absolutely nothing about SEO, but I’m wanting to learn because I finally finished a website I’ve been working on for awhile. I have a few beginner questions if anyone could help me out.
I am currently using the WordPress plugin Yoast, yes I’ve read several posts on here that it’s not a great plugin. I have no problem switching once I have everything set up, but for now I’d like to just get everything set up correctly. I indexed my site and registered for google console the other night.
I’ve always ranked #1 for my brand name, but after indexing I noticed I was ranking also #2 as well for my /shop page.Unfortunately I had not edited my meta descriptions yet nor had I configured yoast properly so my /shop seo title and meta were not displaying properly. I rushed to edit the description and asked Google Search Console to recrawl the shop page. It hasn’t recrawled the page yet, however I noticed that my meta description has all ready updated within 15 minutes. Unfortunately the seo title has not updated and it pulled a <h1> tag and listed it in the SEO title.
I know that Yoast says that this can happen, but they also recommend against checking the force rewrites option as it could slow the site down. In the Yoast preview, I had it set to show up as Shop | Mysite. In my header menu, I have a lightbox pop-up for a newsletter sign-up. The pop-up is a block and I turned off the option for Yoast to index blocks. I did not build the pop-up at the time because I did not know how, but the person used an <h1> tag on the popup that says something to the effect of “Join our Mailing List.” In google search, my seo title shows as Join our Mailing List – Shop | Mysite. I was hoping it would update quickly along with the meta description, but it did not.
What is the best way for me to handle this? When Google recrawls the page, will it likely fix the issue? I looked for a way to try and edit how it appears in Google Search Console, but I could not find anything. Should I just change the h1 tag to an h2 tag to avoid that showing up?
I appreciate any advice on how to resolve this issue. If you have any resources you can recommend for a beginner so I can understand the basics, I would love to hear about them.
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2 Replies
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Just wait a day or two. These things take time with Google.
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Sometimes (often) google chooses what it thinks is best for the page title and description, irrespective of what you’ve chosen. I don’t think there’s anyway of overriding it.
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