Thank you, that’s good to know.
I know that titles and tags are subject to rewrite by Google for SERP
display but I still like to add just in case Google doesn’t do a rewrite.
Topic summary
Goal: auto-populate SEO title and meta description on Shopify product pages (free, no app) using the product title.
Approach: edit theme.liquid and use Liquid (Shopify’s templating language) to set tags when the template contains ‘product’. Example pattern: set to product title + a suffix (e.g., “ | Earth To Planet Cartoons”) and set a product-based meta description. This renders in the page HTML but does not change the Shopify admin SEO fields.
Outcomes and notes:
- Confirmed working on Minimal theme; verify via View Source.
- This overrides any manually entered SEO titles/descriptions.
- SERP (search results) may take time to update, and Google may rewrite titles/meta.
- Caution: templated meta descriptions differing only by product name risk duplication.
Theme variations/issues:
- Some themes already append tags and shop name in ; integrate logic accordingly.
- One user saw “\n” in titles and initially broke by misplacement; they later resolved it.
Status: latest open question is how to add a condition to avoid duplicating the shop name if it’s already in the title. No final resolution posted yet.