Home Page Displays Correctly, but Site Title on Tab shows 404?

Looks fine to me. Your title currently shows as:

Vballworld : Volleyball Tips From Pros!

Hey,

So I had to change my 404 error title to say that. but on GA, it still shows up as the 404 address. is this a canonical url issue?

Google might just need a little time to re-crawl your site. Your canonical <link> tag looks fine to me.

Ok. So I posted this on Google and they said this:

Technically your home page is resolving to a 404 error. This probably means an invalid header has been outputted

For example:
https://www.mfwebservices.com/help/website/

I just changed the header to read a 404 error, but you’re still seeing the content of the page. You can check the header response with https://web-sniffer.net/ and enter the URL above.

You’ll have to check WordPress forums and post your problem there, upgrade your wordpress software, or research their help database for articles relating.

Yup, it’s sending a 404, but only on your homepage (All the other pages are sending a proper 200). Don’t know what could cause it other than something being misconfigured in the server. Do you have anything in your .htaccess other than the normal WordPress rules?

Edit: Er, wait…it looks like your using nginx and Varnish. So, whatever the equivalent to .htaccess is. Maybe Varnish is caching improperly? Sorry, I’ve only used Apache.

BB, thank you so much for your willingness to help.

My htaccess right now looks like this, I have no idea what it means:

DirectoryIndex index.php
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Someone mentioned that the issue might be that my static homepage is set up incorrectly. right now I’m using WP Zoom Daily Headlines which has the READING SETTING as a static webpage without any specific page selected as the homepage.

Ideas?

Your .htaccess looks fine.

That sounds like it could be the problem; WordPress thinks your using a static homepage but returns a 404 since one isn’t set. I’m not familiar with the theme and can’t really poke at it since it’s not free. You could try setting a new blank page as your static homepage and see what happens. Since it’s a premium theme, you could try asking about it in the support forum:

https://www.wpzoom.com/forum/

I don’t know if it helps, and you probably already know about this, but here’s that theme’s documentation page:

https://www.wpzoom.com/documentation/daily-headlines/