Why is my landing page title tag being applied to the entire site?

[craigkleila47]

I have a unique title tag for every page on my site but depending on what page a user lands on, that title becomes the title tag for the entire site.

For example, if you come in from SERPs via the "Zach King: My Magical Life" page, the title "Zach King: My Magical Life" title will be applied to every page on the site even though they have unique title tags.

This is the site: https://www.shelfstuff.com/book-shelf.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Dr-Pete]

What search query are you using? I'm only seeing five pages indexed for your entire site (using site:www.shelfstuff.com), and can't get your site to rank at all for "Zach King: My Magical Life".

Oh, wait, sorry -- are you talking about the display title in the SERPs or the actual title that appears in the browser window once someone enters your site?

[Dr-Pete]

Ok, I think I see what you're saying, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Google. If I go directly to a page like this one (even incognito):

https://www.shelfstuff.com/book-shelf/books/where-the-watermelons-grow/?id=9780062665867

...and then go to the home page, I still see the book title in the browser tab. The title tag itself looks ok, but the sight is highly dynamic. I'm guessing this is some kind of strange JavaScript rewrite or something else happening in your code. Unfortunately, it would take an in-depth knowledge of your site code to sort out why.

Is the site using AJAX or something similar? Definitely seems like pages are being created dynamically and not loading in a typical way.