Hi @madchuner
We understand you’ve set the title and meta description for your homepage, but it is appearing differently in the actual search results.
Please do make sure you use a site: search operator so that you can view what the output is without any search term manipulation.
We recommend you check out these articles in order to learn more about it – https://yoast.com/help/google-shows-different-titles-for-my-site/ & https://yoast.com/help/my-meta-descriptions-arent-showing-up-in-the-search-result-pages/
same thing is showing up when i do it http://prntscr.com/1uv4xsy
@madchuner Thanks for your reply.
Regarding your issue, we checked on the page and confirmed that Yoast is outputting the following for the title and meta description (see image here):
<title>KiwiPrints | Personalised Bottle Labels & Car Decals</title>
<meta name="description" content="Shop for top quality personalised bottle labels and car decals designed by professionals! Our labels come with custom photo to make your gift stand out more." />
However, we do see that this is not the title and meta description that Google is indexing in a search here.
Whereas Google typically uses the title and meta description from the page’s metadata for indexing, this is not always the case. Google will sometimes modify or ignore the title and meta description when it sees fit, as well as sometimes adding the brand or site name to the end of your title.
This behavior is not due to the plugin not functioning as expected, but rather is due to Google using another value for the title and meta description that it indexes, as it’s algorithm has concluded that there is a better version to index. We have additional information on this topic available at the following links: Google Shows Different Titles For My Site and Google Shows The Wrong Meta Description For My Site.
If Google is ignoring the title or meta description you have created for a page and creating it’s own based off the page’s content, we would recommend creating new ones that reflect the page’s content. Please refer to the aforementioned articles as they include recommendations for crafting a page title which will help increase the likelihood that Google will use the title and meta description that you specified, instead of it’s modified version.
Additionally, we have a guide on how to write clean and meaningful meta description for your pages and posts by following the steps it outlines: How To Create The Right Meta Description.
We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.
