A week ago, I made minor edits to my website. Then I went into Google Search Console and re-indexed that URL. But shortly after, I noticed that all the titles/descriptions of all my webpages were incorrect in SERPs.
Instead of displaying each page’s title/description, Google renders the homepage’s title/description (and not even… titles are all messed up, pulling from menu text, and other random on-page text elements). Somehow, Google is confused and can’t pull the SEO title / description in SERPs… ( see here ).
I also troubleshooted using Facebook Debugger and indeed, the og:title tag is missing from the source code ( see here ).
Could it be that a missing og:title tag cause indexing issues?
Does Corvid allow me to manually edit/fix the og: tags via the Editor?
I would appreciate any other troubleshooting ideas… Thanks!
What he said above + note that at the end of the day its Google’s decision what content they want to pull from your site to display. You must optimize your site following best practises.
Clarifying my methodology: Each page’s SEO title/description was optimized using the traditional Wix Editor (not advanced Corvid coding). In the Editor, the Open Graph social tags can’t differ from the SEO title/description so they match those SEO settings for each webpage.
Context: My site is several years old and has historically ranked very highly in SERPs.
I did submit a ticket to Wix Support several days ago. It got escalated to their Dev team but I yet have to hear back… Looking for additional insight as to what could be causing this…
Like you said, you did not use Corvid so we cannot offer you much help here since this is a community for Corvid issues.
On a side note, Google changes its algorithm for ranking regularly so just because you were ranking highly does not mean it will remain like that. Read more on google’s own site and SEO guidelines for more context