Page Title Displaying Wrong Company Name in Google Search Results

[RyanD.]

Currently, in some of our keyword search results, the wrong company name is showing up in the page title. We are a family of companies that all provide different modes of transportation. When we search up "Herc Air Charters" in Google Search Engine, the wrong operating company shows up in the page title (see screenshot, second result: "Lynden Transport" is our trucking company, and does not offer any air charter, this should say "Lynden Air Cargo"). Google decides what is best to put in these titles, so what would be the best way to ensure the correct company name is being displayed?

[PillarDigital]

@RyanD I think what's happening is a couple things:

1. you should change your site title if you go into themes, then customize site setting on WordPress: Right now it shows just as Lynden. You can check for yourself using this URL: https://validator.schema.org/#url=lynden.com

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2. If you're using Yoast for SEO, you may have a different page title set in there for the site name, and you can also have the SEO settings for page title different on different pages. I would go through and check what your default setting is. If you change the page title and then make the default page title for SEO be the page name plus the site name and then have Google reindex you should be goo.

[PillarDigital]

How did you build your website?

You should be able to go into the back end and change the page title. If you use wordpress this is under site settings.

Google will typically show what you have listed there. The page description AKA meta description they will sometimes choose their own.