My blog title is getting added to my post title and I can't figure out how to remove it

[FastLearner]

Hello everyone,

I am sure most of you guys know how to do this.  I am finding that when my posts are listed in google, my blog title is added to my post title.

2 questions.

1. Is this hurting my rankings because the blog title is diluting my keywords making it look like I have a huge title? (the on page optimizer is dinging me for this.

2. I use a self hosted wordpress blog with the all in one seo plugin.  Does anyone know how to remove the blog title from being appended to the post title?

I thought I could do that in all in one seo by checking the rewrite title box and just having it say %post_title% but that didn't fix it.  Also it was doing it before I checked that box as well.

Any other ideas to try?  Thanks

[FastLearner]

Hey guys, thanks for your comments.  I figured it out finally.  It was a setting in my actual theme that was adding the blog title to my post.  I just changed that to not add the blog title and fixed it.

Thanks again for your help and suggestions.

[DocHobbes]

I'm using the Wordpress SEO plugin and have had similar issues with the theme I'm using /  SEO plugin grabbing the blog title and adding it to posts and pages as well.

You can also check your theme's header file to see if it is using something weird to call the title (mine was) I had to remove mine and add in the default to get it to work correctly with De Valk's plugin, but he gives you the original code to use.

[sferrino]

What you stated you are doing should do it. The only other thing to check when using All In One SEO is that you have it enabled.

Another thing I would look if you want to remove the domain name and the above isn't working is:

1. In Settings -> General, check the Site Title
2. Consider moving over to 'WordPress SEO' by Joost de Valk.