Hi all,
I’ve been noticing my shop’s title isn’t being display on google searches, neither is it shown in the “tabs” section of my browser.
Running a site audit on Ahrefs shows I have a lot of pages without a site title. However, every page does indeed have a tag and a tag (not sure what the twitter one is.)
On google it just displays my store name, and on the tabs section of my browser its just the URL.
What is the problem here? Should I add/change it to a Preferred title goes here tag instead?
Hi @azhamina
This is Richard at PageFly - Shopify Advanced Page Builder app.
Assuming that Ahrefs is correct in its diagnosis. Then fix would be to add a separate tag. This is usually managed with liquid/HTML code in themes.liquid within Edit theme code. Or if you are using an SEO app the app you have their own way to manage this.
Most themes include a tag out of the box, unusual if your site doesn’t. It’s possible that it may have been removed from your theme code, or by a previous SEO app at some point. But I’m just guessing at a cause.
Some background: and <meta … “og:title” … > are two completely different things.
The tag gets pulled into tab page title AND into Google page title*
FYI Google doesn’t always use the you provide, often they’ll generate their own.
Hoping my solution helps you solve your problem.
Best regards,
Richard | PageFly
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Thank you so much for your detailed response!
I managed to find our what the issue is, looked into my themes.liquid file and noticed that the and descriptions tag has had a {% comment %} prefix attached to them. I then looked into my backups and noticed that this happened after trying out and uninstalling the BOOSTER SEO app (I hope this is just the app “forgetting” to revert its changes before being uninstalled, instead of it sabotaging the user’s SEO for leaving in order to persuade them to come back)
If you don’t mind, may I ask another question? If I’m not mistaken the contents within the red box is automatically generated by Google, and it depends on the link’s “strength”. However, is there a way for me to have the text above the URL to be my brand/company name (like in the image)? Currently it is just my URL again.
Thank you so much again!
It’s a bit fuzzy, but Google usually pulls that from Website structured data.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/site-names#how-to-add-structured-data
You can check your current structured data with the Schema.org validation tool.
https://validator.schema.org/
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@azhamina when an app is uninstalled it loses all access, any undoing of any actions the app tooks MUST be done before the uninstall otherwise the app cannot do anything at all because it no longer has access to do anything.
For DIY comparison of the changes use a free diff tool like meld https://meldmerge.org/ that can compare local folders; after downloading both the original and newer themes and unziping them into folder.
Since you have original backups before this change if you need a more in-depth theme repair or change-comparison you can contact me by my email for services.
Contact info in forum signature.
ALWAYS please provide context, examples: store url, theme name, post url(s) , or any further detail in ALL correspondence.