WordPress SEO by Yoast

Hello all,

I was wondering whether you could spare a few minutes to help me.
I’m new to wordpress and have recently installed Yoast version 1.4.7.

My question is regarding the following section:
Titles & Metas > Home > You can determine the title and description for the front page by editing the front page itself >

I have edited the SEO title and Meta description however when I do a Google search the same text isn’t showing up in the SERP.

Does this have something to do with my Post Types settings. I have left these as the default settings so for pages my title template is:
%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%

For every page I want to be able to edit the SEO title and Meta description so do I have the wrong title template?

Thank you for your help and advice – I really appreciate it.

Hannah Senior
Marketing Executive in Manchester, UK