{"id":1022875,"date":"2015-11-07T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/page-title-in-google-results\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T08:30:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:30:56","slug":"page-title-in-google-results","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/page-title-in-google-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Title in Google results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<br \/>\nIs there any way to determine what Google displays as the page title in their results? When I searched recently for events in my area my website ranked number 2 but the page title was showing as <strong>Past Events &#8211; (and my website name)<\/strong> despite it going to my up to date calendar.<br \/>\nI use SEO by Yoast plugin and have my title for Custom Post Type Archives Events set to <strong>Upcoming %%pt_plural%% Whats On %%sep%% %%sitename%%<\/strong> which shows up in the browser tabs fine but I am concerned that with Google showing the title as Past Events it may put people off clicking on it.<br \/>\nAny ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1022875","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Page Title in Google results -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/page-title-in-google-results\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Page Title in Google results -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi Is there any way to determine what Google displays as the page title in their results? 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