Plugin not outputting a meta title?

  • Resolved Ronnie55

    (@ronnie55)


    3 years, 3 months ago

    I’m a bit confused and was hoping for help.

    I noticed that on a few of my blog posts, Google is not showing my H1 title as the title in search results page.

    When I inspect my post, it doesn’t appear the SEO Framework is putting a meta title? Or maybe I’m just misunderstanding how this all works.

    Here’s an example of the code for the post (with my private details removed)

    <!-- The SEO Framework by Sybre Waaijer -->
<meta name="description" content="meta description is here - removed for privacy" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://myimage-url.com" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="750" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="421" />

    And then it just continues with lots of “og” stuff, twitter stuff, etc.

    Is this behaving normally? And do you have any idea why Google would be taking my image alt-text for search results instead of H1?

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Ronnie55.
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  • Thread Starter Ronnie55

    (@ronnie55)

    Quick update: I just read an article saying that Google is replacing H1 titles in search results now, as of 1-2 days ago:

    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-is-rewriting-title-tags-in-serps/416793/#close

    So I guess it’s not a plugin issue.

    If the code snippet and order of items above looks fine, please just let me know and I’ll forget it ?? Thanks.

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hi Ronnie!

    Sorry for my belated reply — Gutenberg’s update claimed priority.

    Google uses the <title> tag as a primary title suggestion, not the <h1> tag. WordPress outputs the <title> tag that TSF modifies, which is why the tag is outside the range of TSF’s HTML comments.

    Other than that, yes, they use it as a suggestion.

    I spotted nothing of significance in the snippet of the code you shared.

    Cheers!

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