• majorAlexa

        See all notifications

        Skip to content
        Moz logo Menu open Menu close
        • Products
          • Moz Pro
          • Moz Pro Home
          • Moz Local
          • Moz Local Home
          • STAT
          • Moz API
          • Moz API Home
          • Compare SEO Products
          • Moz Data
        • Free SEO Tools
          • Domain Analysis
          • Keyword Explorer
          • Link Explorer
          • Competitive Research
          • MozBar
          • More Free SEO Tools
        • Learn SEO
          • Beginner's Guide to SEO
          • SEO Learning Center
          • Moz Academy
          • MozCon
          • Webinars, Whitepapers, & Guides
        • Blog
        • Why Moz
          • Digital Marketers
          • Agency Solutions
          • Enterprise Solutions
          • Small Business Solutions
          • The Moz Story
          • New Releases
        • Log in
        • Log out
        • Products
          • Moz Pro

            Your all-in-one suite of SEO essentials.

          • Moz Local

            Raise your local SEO visibility with complete local SEO management.

          • STAT

            SERP tracking and analytics for enterprise SEO experts.

          • Moz API

            Power your SEO with our index of over 44 trillion links.

          • Compare SEO Products

            See which Moz SEO solution best meets your business needs.

          • Moz Data

            Power your SEO strategy & AI models with custom data solutions.

          Let your business shine with Listings AI
          Moz Local

          Let your business shine with Listings AI

          Learn more
        • Free SEO Tools
          • Domain Analysis

            Get top competitive SEO metrics like DA, top pages and more.

          • Keyword Explorer

            Find traffic-driving keywords with our 1.25 billion+ keyword index.

          • Link Explorer

            Explore over 40 trillion links for powerful backlink data.

          • Competitive Research

            Uncover valuable insights on your organic search competitors.

          • MozBar

            See top SEO metrics for free as you browse the web.

          • More Free SEO Tools

            Explore all the free SEO tools Moz has to offer.

          NEW Keyword Suggestions by Topic
          Moz Pro

          NEW Keyword Suggestions by Topic

          Learn more
        • Learn SEO
          • Beginner's Guide to SEO

            The #1 most popular introduction to SEO, trusted by millions.

          • SEO Learning Center

            Broaden your knowledge with SEO resources for all skill levels.

          • On-Demand Webinars

            Learn modern SEO best practices from industry experts.

          • How-To Guides

            Step-by-step guides to search success from the authority on SEO.

          • Moz Academy

            Upskill and get certified with on-demand courses & certifications.

          • MozCon

            Save on Early Bird tickets and join us in London or New York City

          Unlock flexible pricing & new endpoints
          Moz API

          Unlock flexible pricing & new endpoints

          Find your plan
        • Blog
        • Why Moz
          • Digital Marketers

            Simplify SEO tasks to save time and grow your traffic.

          • Small Business Solutions

            Uncover insights to make smarter marketing decisions in less time.

          • Agency Solutions

            Earn & keep valuable clients with unparalleled data & insights.

          • Enterprise Solutions

            Gain a competitive edge in the ever-changing world of search.

          • The Moz Story

            Moz was the first & remains the most trusted SEO company.

          • New Releases

            Get the scoop on the latest and greatest from Moz.

          Surface actionable competitive intel
          New Feature

          Surface actionable competitive intel

          Learn More
        • Log in
          • Moz Pro
          • Moz Local
          • Moz Local Dashboard
          • Moz API
          • Moz API Dashboard
          • Moz Academy
        • Avatar
          • Moz Home
          • Notifications
          • Account & Billing
          • Manage Users
          • Community Profile
          • My Q&A
          • My Videos
          • Log Out

        The Moz Q&A Forum

        • Forum
        • Questions
        • My Q&A
        • Users
        • Ask the Community

        Welcome to the Q&A Forum

        Browse the forum for helpful insights and fresh discussions about all things SEO.

        1. Home
        2. SEO Tactics
        3. Technical SEO
        4. SEO plugin by Yoast messing up my title/meta description

        Moz Q&A is closed.

        After more than 13 years, and tens of thousands of questions, Moz Q&A closed on 12th December 2024. Whilst we’re not completely removing the content - many posts will still be possible to view - we have locked both new posts and new replies. More details here.

        SEO plugin by Yoast messing up my title/meta description

        Technical SEO
        2
        11
        9683
        Loading More Posts
        • Watching

          Notify me of new replies.
          Show question in unread.

        • Not Watching

          Do not notify me of new replies.
          Show question in unread if category is not ignored.

        • Ignoring

          Do not notify me of new replies.
          Do not show question in unread.

        • Oldest to Newest
        • Newest to Oldest
        • Most Votes
        Reply
        • Reply as question
        Locked
        This topic has been deleted. Only users with question management privileges can see it.
        • danielpett
          danielpett last edited by

          Hey guys,

          I'm having some issues with my wordpress blog, and I believe SEO plugin by Yoast could be the one causing it.

          I have set a title for my wordpress blog, and a tagline. This was set in dashboard > settings > general

          Under "titles and metas" > home in the plugin it says, title: %%sitename%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitedesc%%, and meta description is blank.

          The reports on seomoz says my title is title+meta description - making it to long (to many characters).

          What could be the issue here?

          Thanks in advance!

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • Marcus_Miller
            Marcus_Miller @danielpett last edited by

            You too man!

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • danielpett
              danielpett @danielpett last edited by

              That did the trick! Thanks for the support.

              Have a great weekend.

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • Marcus_Miller
                Marcus_Miller @danielpett last edited by

                In Google Chrome:

                1. Right click on the page in question and select: View page source

                2. Search for <title></em> to see your title</p> <p>3. Search for <em><span><meta </span><span>name</span><span>="</span><span>description</span><span>"</span></em> to see your description</p> <p>Shout if you get stuck!</p> <p>Cheers<br />Marcus </p></title>

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                • danielpett
                  danielpett @danielpett last edited by

                  Awesome, thanks Marcus!

                  Just one last thing, where can I in an easy way see what my title and meta description/title is? To see if it works.

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • Marcus_Miller
                    Marcus_Miller @danielpett last edited by

                    If you are using the SEO plugin it allows various variables in the title templates. So, to use the page / post title and the site name you would use:

                    %%title%% | %%sitename%%

                    To use the title and the site description you would use:

                    %%title%% | %%sitedesc%%

                    If you wanted title, site name, site description

                    %%title%% | %%sitename%% | %%sitedesc%%

                    If you go to the help tag under the Titles & Meta's section you can get a full list of these variables you can get to customise your template titles.

                    But, the plugin also allows you to customise on a page by page basis in the page / post settings which is also really useful.

                    Hope that helps!
                    Marcus

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                    • danielpett
                      danielpett @danielpett last edited by

                      In the plugin this code is put in the title template box: %%sitename%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitedesc%%

                      Maybe this is the reason why title and tag line/meta description is put as title? The "%%sitedesc%%" should perhaps be put in the Meta description template beneath?

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • danielpett
                        danielpett @danielpett last edited by

                        I tried disabling, and what I got now was an empty title. What does that tell me?

                        That's the problem, part of the title should be in the meta description (as it is put under "tag line" in wordpress settings > general.

                        Put the tagline is shown right after the title in the title.

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • Marcus_Miller
                          Marcus_Miller @danielpett last edited by

                          Hey, page title looks fine, no meta description though by the look of things?

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • danielpett
                            danielpett @Marcus_Miller last edited by

                            Marcus,

                            First of all, thanks for the reply!

                            I will try to disable the plugin and see what happens.

                            Where do need a link? Here is to the blog in question blogg.loveday.se (don't know if it is of any use though, as it is in swedish).

                            Marcus_Miller danielpett 8 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • Marcus_Miller
                              Marcus_Miller last edited by

                              Hey Daniel

                              Hard to say without a link but the first thing I would do would be to disable the plugin and see if that puts things right. If that does not work, the plugin may have some incompatibilities with your theme or your theme may have some problems itself.

                              The Yoast plugin has some configuration that allows you to force the rewriting of the titles so you can check to see if that is enabled on the titles and metas page (and try turning it on / off).

                              Ultimately, this is likely a theme conflict and many themes have their own SEO settings that may need to be disabled or removed so I would look there firfst.

                              Can you post a link?

                              Marcus

                              danielpett 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • 1 / 1
                              • First post
                                Last post

                              Browse Questions

                              Explore more categories

                              • Moz Tools

                                Chat with the community about the Moz tools.

                              • SEO Tactics

                                Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers

                              • Community

                                Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!

                              • Digital Marketing

                                Chat about tactics outside of SEO

                              • Research & Trends

                                Dive into research and trends in the search industry.

                              • Support

                                Connect on product support and feature requests.

                              • See all categories

                              Related Questions

                              • musthavemarketing

                                Express js and SEO?

                                Hi fellow Mozzers, I have been tasked with providing some SEO recommendations for a website that is to be built using express.js and Angular.  I wondered whether anyone has had any experience in such a framework? On checking a website built in this and viewing as a GoogleBot etc using the following tools it appears as though most of the content is invisible: http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php http://www.browseo.net/ Obviously this is a huge issue and wonder if there are any workarounds, or reccomendations to assist (even if means moving away from this  - would love to hear about it)

                                Technical SEO | | musthavemarketing
                                2
                              • ccox1

                                My Homepage Won't Load if Javascript is Disabled. Is this an SEO/Indexation issue?

                                Hi everyone, I'm working with a client who recently had their site redesigned. I'm just going through to do an initial audit to make sure everything looks good. Part of my initial indexation audit goes through questions about how the site functions when you disable, javascript, cookies, and/or css. I use the Web Developer extension for Chrome to do this. I know, more recently, people have said that content loaded by Javascript will be indexed. I just want to make sure it's not hurting my clients SEO. http://americasinstantsigns.com/ Is it as simple as looking at Google's Cached URL? The URL is definitely being indexed and when looking at the text-only version everything appears to be in order. This may be an outdated question, but I just want to be sure! Thank you so much!

                                Technical SEO | | ccox1
                                0
                              • Dynata_panel_marketing

                                Bing webmaster tools incorrectly showing missing title and description tags

                                Hey all, Was wondering if anyone else has come across this issue. Bing is showing title and description tags missing in the head of my wordpress blog. I can't seem to find any documentation on this. Thanks, Roman

                                Technical SEO | | Dynata_panel_marketing
                                0
                              • A_Fotografy

                                Yoast SEO. After set up 404 error pages

                                Hello all, Something strange happened with my blog site. I recently signed to MOZ tools. Initially everything was fine, but during my last crawl I got loads of 404
                                pages. Few days ago I was tweaking some settings in SEO plugin according to this post https://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success What I noticed was that 404 pages were coming from my blog posts, but for
                                some reason category was missing in those posts. For example this link is 404
                                https://a-fotografy.co.uk/inchcolm-island-wedding-photography-bailie The one with category is https://a-fotografy.co.uk/wedding-pictures/inchcolm-island-wedding-photography-bailie/ So basically for some reason category was missing. Please let me know how can I fix this instead of doing hundreds of
                                redirects now. Thank you,
                                Regards,
                                Armands

                                Technical SEO | | A_Fotografy
                                0
                              • the-gate-films

                                URL Structure On Site - Currently it's domain/product-name NOT domain/category/product name is this bad?

                                I have a eCommerce site and the site structure is domain/product-name rather than domain/product-category/product-name Do you think this will have a negative impact SEO Wise? I have seen that some of my individual product pages do get better rankings than my categories.

                                Technical SEO | | the-gate-films
                                0
                              • JohnHuynh

                                Miss meta description on 404 page

                                Hi, My 404 page did not have meta description. Is it an error? Because I run report and seomoz said that a problem. Thanks!

                                Technical SEO | | JohnHuynh
                                0
                              • yanaiguana111

                                Registered Trademark in a Meta Title or Content

                                I know that registered trademarks don't hurt SEO, however if the trademark is used in the middle of a popular search phrase (see below) will it hurt the site's chanced of getting ranked for this term. Example: Funkybrand® Shoes PS I found one brand that used the trademark Acuvue® contact lenses. thanks!

                                Technical SEO | | yanaiguana111
                                0
                              • TOMMarketingLtd.

                                Home Page .index.htm and .com Duplicate Page Content/Title

                                I have been whittling away at the duplicate content on my clients' sites, thanks to SEOmoz's pro report, and have been getting push back from the account manager at register.com (the site was built here and the owner doesn't want to move it).  He says these are the exact same page and he can't access one to redirect to the other.  Any suggestions? The SEOmoz report says there is duplicate content on both these urls: Durango Mountain Biking | Durango Mountain Resort - Cascade Village http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/index.htm Durango Mountain Biking | Durango Mountain Resort - Cascade Village http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/ Your help is greatly appreciated! Sheryl

                                Technical SEO | | TOMMarketingLtd.
                                0

                              Get started with Moz Pro!

                              Unlock the power of advanced SEO tools and data-driven insights.

                              Start my free trial
                              Products
                              • Moz Pro
                              • Moz Local
                              • Moz API
                              • Moz Data
                              • STAT
                              • Product Updates
                              Moz Solutions
                              • SMB Solutions
                              • Agency Solutions
                              • Enterprise Solutions
                              • Digital Marketers
                              Free SEO Tools
                              • Domain Authority Checker
                              • Link Explorer
                              • Keyword Explorer
                              • Competitive Research
                              • Brand Authority Checker
                              • Local Citation Checker
                              • MozBar Extension
                              • MozCast
                              Resources
                              • Blog
                              • SEO Learning Center
                              • Help Hub
                              • Beginner's Guide to SEO
                              • How-to Guides
                              • Moz Academy
                              • API Docs
                              About Moz
                              • About
                              • Team
                              • Careers
                              • Contact
                              Why Moz
                              • Case Studies
                              • Testimonials
                              Get Involved
                              • Become an Affiliate
                              • MozCon
                              • Webinars
                              • Practical Marketer Series
                              • MozPod
                              Connect with us

                              Contact the Help team

                              Join our newsletter
                              Moz logo
                              © 2021 - 2025 SEOMoz, Inc., a Ziff Davis company. All rights reserved. Moz is a registered trademark of SEOMoz, Inc.
                              • Accessibility
                              • Terms of Use
                              • Privacy

                              Looks like your connection to Moz was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.