Home Page Title Issue

Topic summary

A user encountered an issue where their website’s home page title wasn’t displaying correctly in Google search results, despite changing it in their site preferences. The title showed as “soiled” instead of their desired custom text.

Solution provided:

  • Navigate to the theme editor
  • Locate and open the theme.liquid file
  • Add a <title> tag within the <head> section
  • Use either static text or the dynamic {{ page_title }} variable

Outcome: The solution successfully resolved the issue, allowing proper control over the page title displayed in search results.

Summarized with AI on November 2. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

I have changed the home page title of my website soiled in preferences but in google it shows like this, see how other sites shows their title, i want to be able to change the texts as i wish, how to do it? i really dont know the proper term for that texts. Please help.

Go to theme

and edit the code

on search theme.liquid open it

and paste it on head tag


Your title text here

or


{{ page_title }}

Accept the solution if it works

it worked, thank you so much.

Ur welcome