Problem with meta title
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My web is http://www.canexel.es, is supported by wordpress and I'm having some problems with the meta title. Google SERPS shows “Canexel: Casas de madera canadienses“ when I config the snipped to show “Casas de Madera canadienses – Canexel” I use SEO yoast plugin. I dont know why it is showing the name of the company followed by a colon at the beginning.
The home page is the only one that is having that problem.
Thx!
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This is a very normal thing for Google to display a different Page Title for the home page of a website. If you do a search for a head term like "Vitamins" you sill see the page titles for a few of the listings automatically get switched to "Company Name: Rest of Title"
Simply put, you can set a Page Title but Google does not always honor it if they think they can pull in a more relevant title.
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I would check the settings of the site. In Settings > General, make sure there is no site title or tagline set. These can sometimes mess with other titles.
-Andy
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Before it was "Casas de madera canadienses - Canexel" and it showed "Canexel: Casas de madera canadienses“, probably after indexing the new title it will show "Canexel: Casas de madera mucho más que casas prefabricadas".
The problem is that it always shows the "Canexel: " at the begining, no matter wich config I use on the meta title I write in code.
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Before you configured, was "Canexel: Casas de madera canadienses“" your old page title? If so, wait a bit and probably will change.
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