Switched to HTTPS, now Google ALWAYS changes Page Title & Meta in SERPs

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Wordpress website using Yoast.

Website switched over from HTTP to HTTPS successfully about 6 months ago. Noticed after the fact that Google almost never displays the Page Title or Meta Description I've created in Yoast. Yoast is the only SEO plug-in enabled. Yoast is set to Force Rewrite the Page TItles.

The Page titles & Meta Descriptions are always within the character limit. They also contain either an exact or partial match the queries in which Google shows a different Page Title & Meta Description.

For some Queries, Google will display the URL as the Page Title for certain queries. Concrete example, search for: public administration jobs

Screenshot of results attached.

First time working with HTTPS. The redirects appear to be have done correctly. I'm not sure what the issue is.

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LesleyPaone

Could you possibly share a link so we could check it out? I cannot think of anything off the top of my head that would cause it.

Devanur-Rafi

Hi, its time to check your titles and descriptions. With all respect for Yoast plugin, I would still recommend to write the page titles and descriptions manually at least for the most important pages on your website. Google changing the titles and descriptions is not new and all that we can do is try and test different titles and descriptions.

Here you go for more on this..

1. https://yoast.com/google-page-title/

2. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2342232/Why-Google-Changes-Your-Titles-in-Search-Results

3. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-title-changes-to-individual-pages-categories-tags-posts-is-not-working

and here..

4. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/K6D14caef7U

Hope they help.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi