Store name in meta title always as first word in DAWN theme

Store Design

Topic summary

Main issue: On the Dawn theme homepage, Google displays the SEO title as “DAMANDIA: Diamantschmuck günstig kaufen” even though the store owner set it as “Diamantschmuck günstig kaufen | DAMANDIA” in Online Store > Meta title.

What was tried:

  • Shopify Support stated this behavior is intended for the homepage.
  • A community suggestion edited theme.liquid: for request.page_type == ‘index’, set a custom ; otherwise use {{ page_title }}. Code snippet was provided and implemented.
  • The current title block includes logic for tags, pagination, and appending the shop name unless it’s already included.

Current result:

  • The browser tab shows the desired title (“Diamantschmuck günstig kaufen | DAMANDIA”).
  • Google search results still display the format with the store name first and a colon (“DAMANDIA: …”). When words in the title change, Google reflects the new words but keeps the “DAMANDIA:” prefix.

Status and open questions:

  • No confirmed fix for altering how Google renders the homepage title.
  • The thread remains unresolved; further suggestions are requested.

Note: A code snippet in theme.liquid is central to the attempted solution.

Summarized with AI on February 15. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi everyone,

first of all many thanks for your support so far!

I ran into another issue which I could not find a solution for.

The google SEO title for my main store page always has my shop name as first word with “:” after the name, although I entered it differently in the onlineshop meta title settings.

What I put as SEO title in the onlineshop settings: “Diamantschmuck günstig kaufen | DAMANDIA”

What it gets transformed to: “DAMANDIA: Diamantschmuck günstig kaufen”

I already contacted shopify support, but they told me it is intended to be that way.

Do you know how to get that fixed and have the SEO title for my main page displayed as I entered it? For all other pages the title looks fine.

Many thanks in advance!

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Hi @Diashop ,

Please go to theme.liquid file, find ‘page_title’ and change code here:

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Code:

{% if request.page_type == 'index' %}
      DAMANDIA: Diamantschmuck günstig kaufen
{% else %}
      {{ page_title }}
{% endif %}

Hope it helps!

3

Hi LitCommerce!

Many thanks! Seems to be working!

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Hi, seems like it does not fix the problem.

This is the code I have now:

{% if request.page_type == 'index' %} Diamantschmuck günstig kaufen | DAMANDIA {% else %} {{ page_title }} {% endif %} {%- if current_tags %} – tagged "{{ current_tags | join: ', ' }}"{% endif -%} {%- if current_page != 1 %} – Page {{ current_page }}{% endif -%} {%- unless page_title contains shop.name %} – {{ shop.name }}{% endunless -%}

“Diamantschmuck günstig kaufen | DAMANDIA” is the title I would like to be displayed in google. It also the one that is show in the browser tab when I open the page, but that was also the case earlier. If I add a word to the title e.g. “Diamantschmuck günstig online kaufen | DAMANDIA” this change is picked up by google within a few days. However, it is then still reading “DAMANDIA: Diamantschmuck günstig online kaufen”.

So I still can not get rid of the pre-fix “DAMANDIA:” before my page title. Any idea what else to try?

Many thanks so far!