Google ignoring SEO title, using drop down menu text instead

Hi @westcoastsci

Upon checking the page source of https://westcoastsci.com/blog/, we do see that the Yoast SEO plugin is outputting the correct title and meta description:

<title>Blog | Health, Exercise & Injury Information | Westcoast SCI Physiotherapy</title>

<meta name="description" content="Want to learn more about Health, Exercise, Injuries, Physiotherapy Treatments? Visit our blog, written by Physiotherapists & Kinesiologists." />

When we do a site: search for https://westcoastsci.com/blog/, we do see that the title and meta description appears differently. It looks like it was cached last July 19, 2021, which is why it might still be showing outdated information.

You can follow the steps here – https://yoast.com/help/my-seo-title-isnt-displayed-as-i-have-entered-it/#cache

Hi @westcoastsci

We’re glad to be of help! If you are able to request indexing, it might speed up the process for Google to crawl the website again and then show the updated information in the search results.

You can set the preferred title and meta description but please do note though that in the end, it will still be up to Google to actually decide what to output in the search results.

We’ll be setting this thread to resolved.