Home title tag & meta description are gone

Hi bmb2526,

First thing you should do is remove the duplicate meta from your site. Something else is outputting meta data to your source code, probably your theme. You can see this at line 12 of the source code.

Delete that first then resubmit your homepage to Google and wait to see if they pick up the correct meta from All in One SEO Pack.

And remember, just because you set a title and description does not mean that Google has to use it, you can’t force them to use it, and we’re seeing more examples now where they don’t use the meta you provide.

wpsmort,
Thanks for pointing that out, I forgot to flip that switch off when updating my theme. I will let you know if anything changes or not.

Thanks

This is happening to me as well! I just noticed it. What am I deleting from my theme files to fix this?

wpsmort,
Deleting that string of code solved the description issue but the home title is still not showing up properly. Any ideas?

Thanks

bmb,

Can you tell me which string of code you deleted from which file?

josh5723,
It was a duplicate line of the meta description tag: <meta name=”description”

Hi bmb2526,

Can you tell me if the title tag in your source code at line 15 matches what you entered into All in One SEO Pack under General Settings, Home Page Settings, Home Title?

wpsmort,

Yes, that is what I entered within All in One SEO Pack. However, when you perform a Google search for my site, it simply shows the site title and tagline from wordpress > settings > general > site title/tagline.

I use a premium theme. Their support told me to delete the following (line 15) from header.php

<meta name=”description” content=”<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>” />

Hi bmb2526,

I suspect that Google just hasn’t updated their index to reflect your new title tag. When dod you add it and was that field empty before you added the new title?

I just updated to the most recent version 2.1.3
I used to use 1. something.

Now the homepage meta is being grabbed from the blog page.

I have tried changing a lot of things, and the only way of editing it is by editing the blog page meta.

On my site, blog and home page are NOT the same.

Thanks in advance.