Website title has domain name in SERPS but not in the website.

[TheSEOGuy1]

We are using the latest version of Wordpress for one of our website. Now every page in SERPS is like this:

SEO Services, Link Building and Social Media - Oursite.com

But when we look at our website's title tag its like this:

<title>SEO Services, Link Building and Social Media</title>

It's very strange, why the website's domain name is appended to the title in SERPS??

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[MikeRoberts]

Does this happen to every page on every search term or does this occasionally happen on certain terms? This could be caused by Google re-writing your title. If its happening all of the time then I would double-check your pages to see if you don't accidentally have two titles tags caused by competing wordpress plugins.

If you could give us a sample link and search term it would be easier to double-check.

[customerparadigm.com]

I can think of three things that might be happening.

1. In the WordPress template, your designer might have hard-coded your business name at the end of the title, within the template file.

Normally in WordPress, your Title tag displays like this:
<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>

But it's possible that instead, they modified it to:
<title><?php wp_title(''); ?> - Oursite.com</title>

That's where I'd check first.

2. If that's not the case, I'd check in your admin area, under admin --> Settings --> General --> Site Title

You might have something in there.

3. Check to see if you have a WordPress plugin that is overriding the title tag information.

We use the All in One SEO one for our site, and this is where we can set the Home page title tag, and the other title tags for pages, posts, search pages, 404s and more...

I hope this helps!
-- Jeff

[TheSEOGuy1]

Thanks Jeff!! #2 was the issue!! Just updated it and made it blank, as we are already using SEO by Yoast to look after the titles. Thanks!

[KeriMorgret]

For months, Google has sometimes added SEOmoz to the end of our title tags after we moved to Moz. Sometimes Google will do their own title tags, and have for years.