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    Website title next to a post title-how to remove it?

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    • LynnPatchett
      LynnPatchett last edited by

      Hi,

      It i probably google deciding to rewrite the titles for you, Yoast himself makes a mention of it here: http://yoast.com/google-page-title/ In short, not much you can do about it.

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      • FreeRangeUK
        FreeRangeUK last edited by

        Just change the SEO title in the Yoast plugin. This will get rid of the site name at the end.

        I just cut and paste the title into the SEO Title to overwrite it

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        • Rebeca1
          Rebeca1 @FreeRangeUK last edited by

          Thank you very much, but I am not sure if I understand you correctly. What do you exactly mean I should do and where in the yoast plugin?

          In post titles in the plugin I have set to show only the post name.

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          • Rebeca1
            Rebeca1 @LynnPatchett last edited by

            Thank you very much Lynn, I have read the article just now. Well if it so that google rewrite it I have no problem with it. But is there a way I can check if I do not have some setting somewhere on site which does this?

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            • FreeRangeUK
              FreeRangeUK @Rebeca1 last edited by

              See the image attached to see where to add the new SEO Title

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              • Rebeca1
                Rebeca1 @FreeRangeUK last edited by

                Oh I see, so I input the title into each post. Thank you so much!

                And then in general settings for post types in title templates for post and pages I have this %%title%%  should I remove it? I am afraid if I write a title into each post and will still keep this  in templates it will create 2 titles perhaps?

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                • FreeRangeUK
                  FreeRangeUK @Rebeca1 last edited by

                  No Don't remove it. Don't worry about general settings, just add a new title in SEO Title every time

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                  • Rebeca1
                    Rebeca1 @FreeRangeUK last edited by

                    Thank you very much Free Range Websites

                    You are great! I will give it a try! Thank you so much!

                    Have a nice day!

                    All the best

                    Iris

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                    • LynnPatchett
                      LynnPatchett @Rebeca1 last edited by

                      Hi Iris,

                      You can check the page source of the page you are looking at (right click and view source) and if the title tag near the top has the name of the site at the end then yes obviously it is being put in there by some setting and you can follow what Free Range has said below. I looked at a couple of your pages and did not see this, so it looks at first glance that your setup is ok and that the site name is being put in by google.

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                      • FreeRangeUK
                        FreeRangeUK last edited by

                        You can also try the 'Force rewrite titles' option in the Yoast settings. Sometimes this can help to remove unwanted site names from the title.

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                        • Rebeca1
                          Rebeca1 @LynnPatchett last edited by

                          Thank you so much Lynn.

                          Have a good day!

                          Iris

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                          • Rebeca1
                            Rebeca1 @FreeRangeUK last edited by

                            Thank you very much! I will give it a try.

                            All the best

                            Iris

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