• Resolved K

    (@kabirbd)


    A few days back I notice that in google my post, site, page, and tax title show in a shorter length compared to the usual length.

    It’s around 26 to 30 characters average and in pixel its 250px to 270px average in all screen sizes, desktop, tab, and mobile.

    The title used to show 55-65 characters and in pixel 570 to 600px approx.

    What’s wrong with my site.

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  • Plugin Author Rank Math

    (@rankmath)

    Hello @kabirbd

    Thank you for your message.

    1. First of all, I am assuming that you have already changed the SEO Meta Title and Meta Description with the help of Rank Math:

    Add a Meta Description in Classic Editor: https://i.rankmath.com/dhECkg
    Add title and description in Gutenberg: https://i.rankmath.com/ZO21Cd

    2. Then, ensure that this is the setting in the Schema tab if the Schema Markup module is enabled on your website:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pG0pcS

    To reiterate, the Schema title must show %seo_title% and the description should show %seo_description% – this will ensure your SEO title and SEO Description that you set up via Rank Math can also be used for your schema details:

    3. The next step is to check if your title/description is properly set up in the page source:
    https://i.rankmath.com/HwXR1o

    You can use this tool for the same as well: https://www.heymeta.com/

    4. If it matches your settings, then you must check if Google has seen the changes already or not.

    For that, please check when the Google cache was updated for that page:
    a. https://i.rankmath.com/9q6X0H
    b. https://i.rankmath.com/R8N0Uh

    If the cache date is from before adding the new meta description, then you just have to wait for Google to re-crawl and re-index the page with the new info. If the date is after you made the changes, then you just have to wait it out and there is no further input needed from your end.

    Do note that if everything’s fine and Google still decides to show a different meta title/description for your search keyword, there is nothing you can do as Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and show something from the page’s content that matches the search intent better.

    Here are some of the common reasons Google might not use the meta description you provided:
    – The meta description is not relevant or useful (ie, just a collection of keywords).
    – The exact same meta description is provided across a large number of pages.
    – The meta description doesn’t match what the user is searching for, but other content on the page does.

    There is a whole article dedicated to this on SearchEngineJournal:
    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-offers-suggestions-for-avoiding-meta-description-rewrites/359884/

    Here is an example showing Google changes title depending on the keyword used:
    https://i.rankmath.com/oT6VQe
    &
    https://i.rankmath.com/Mrhb0x

    The best you can do is optimize your meta tags to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.

    Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know.

    P.S. Google keeps on testing various lengths all the time. If the above settings are correct, there’s nothing you can do about it.

    Thread Starter K

    (@kabirbd)

    Why should I go for each and individual post for meta title and description! In a community web with multiuser its nearly impossible.

    Rather than edit in an individual post, I prefer to go “/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rank-math-options-titles” and edit meta title and description for all post page cat at once.

    And when I checked it on individual post settings it looks okay.

    I set up my description at the very begging of the time. I didn’t change it too much. What happens and how something goes wrong I don’t know. What I know is that I didn’t make any change, and it happen suddenly.

    Now, how can I solve this problem?

    Plugin Author Rank Math

    (@rankmath)

    Hello @kabirbd

    Please share the URL of your website so we can take a closer look and a few posts where you are seeing issues in the Google search results.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

    Thread Starter K

    (@kabirbd)

    @rankmath
    here the website, poetrystate.com and this (????? ?????) Query give you the exact result and help you to understand my issues.

    Plugin Author Rank Math

    (@rankmath)

    Hello @kabirbd

    I’m seeing this when searching the keyword you provided:
    https://i.rankmath.com/0AHZYO

    Also, the meta tags are added properly by the plugin so it’s Google’s choice what to display or not:
    https://i.rankmath.com/k7JSDH

    Or are we still missing something obvious?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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