WordPress SEO is one of my most remarkable successes for the last few years. I have managed to optimize most of my site to rank for very competitive keywords with ZERO budgets on ads.
My understanding of how WordPress works has been instrumental in getting my sites to effortlessly rank to position #1. I often like to accomplish the same results for my clients who prefer to build their websites using WordPress as a CMS. One of the most basic WordPress SEO steps involves using a plugin like Yoast SEO that helps with on-page optimization.
Over the years, I have mastered how to fully optimize for all pages on my site using this plugin. It is remarkably easy to use Yoast SEO both free and premium. Any serious website owner or webmaster understands the value of SEO, and cannot afford to ignore basic on-page WordPress SEO.
Yoast SEO Duplicate Title Tags
Recently, I came across one of the most common problems encountered by several Yoast Plugin users. This problem results in poor click-through rate since titles on your search engine results are erroneously displayed. In most cases, the title you set on the post will not be displayed but the permalink content or the shortened title with the site tag.
Yoast SEO Title Not Working
According to my research, Yoast SEO titles and Meta not showing is a fairly common problem that is often caused by the plugin and the theme outputting the <title> tag independently. I came across this problem when optimizing my site and I discovered a straightforward way of fixing it once and for all.
How to Fix Yoast SEO Title Not Working Problem
Since the problem is most likely related to your theme like it was the case with my site; you will have to edit the header.php file and change the title tag.
The best place to begin is to view your source code to see if you have duplicate title tags. Like in my case I had the duplicate title tags as shown in the image below:
After you identify the problem, you need to fix it by editing the header.php and replacing the title tag with the following:
<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>
Caution:
- Make sure you have the unchecked the ‘Enable Force Rewrite Titles’ option under the General tab in the Yoast SEO settings.
- Make sure you do not have two title tags in your header.php
- If you have no idea how to edit the theme files, look for a WordPress developer.
This little trick should help you fix this problem of duplicate title tags on Yoast SEO. This is just one step towards fixing a myriad of WordPress SEO problems you are likely to come across.
Joe is an experienced full-stack web developer with a decade of industry experience in the LAMP & MERN stacks, WordPress, WooCommerce, and JavaScript – (diverse portfolio). He has a passion for creating elegant and user-friendly solutions and thrives in collaborative environments. In his spare time, he enjoys exploring new tech trends, tinkering with new tools, and contributing to open-source projects. You can hire me here for your next project.
Conclusion
Finally, WordPress SEO is a continuous journey that involves several baby steps that cumulatively yield to a giant leap. It’s always a great joy to achieve good search engine rankings since it brings more business leads and growth.
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