{"id":61995,"date":"2022-12-30T20:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=61995"},"modified":"2022-12-30T20:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:20:35","slug":"site-name-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2022\/12\/site-name-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add Correct Site Name to Google Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your site name appearing wrong in Google search?\u00a0 Did you know there is a better way in which you can suggest your site name to Google using structured data.<\/p>\n<h2>Suggest Site Name for Google Search<\/h2>\n<p>How do we typically suggest our website name to Google?\u00a0 Mostly we do it by using the <code>&lt;title&gt;<\/code> tag in HTML, using <code>&lt;H1&gt;<\/code> tags or <code>og:site_name<\/code> on the homepage URL by using other microformats or structured data techniques. But has it been done right? Have you checked your indexed URLs in Google?<\/p>\n<p>As most websites are now posted on WordPress,\u00a0 there is a good chance you have correctly specified the settings in WordPress which will automatically configure your site name correctly to appear in Google search results.<\/p>\n<p>There are also several\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wordpress-plugins\/\">WordPress plugins<\/a> like Yoast or RankMath that will enable correct schema and structured data formatting which will again display your site title in Google search results.<\/p>\n<p>However, many times on the home page or the index archives in WordPress, you will find that the H1 tags are missing, if you do a site audit on a tool like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/go\/semrushtrial\" rel=\"nofollow\">SEMrush<\/a> (and this was an issue with our website as well!)<\/p>\n<h2>Schema for Homepage<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/schema-site-name.png\" alt=\"schema site name\" width=\"482\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/schema-site-name.png 482w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/schema-site-name-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/schema-site-name-150x91.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google says you can <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/appearance\/site-names\" rel=\"noopener\">suggest site name<\/a> by using simple code like that shown below and adding to your homepage HEAD tags in HTML. It will correctly display your site name on Google search results for your homepage.<\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;script type=\"application\/ld+json\"&gt;\r\n {\r\n   \"@context\" : \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\r\n   \"@type\" : \"WebSite\",\r\n   \"name\" : \"YourSiteName\",\r\n   \"url\" : \"https:\/\/yoursite.com\/\"\r\n }\r\n&lt;\/script&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Do remember to change the &#8216;name&#8217; to your site name and &#8216;url&#8217; to your website url.<\/p>\n<p>Learn about more <a href=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WebSite\" rel=\"noopener\">Website schema options<\/a> you can add to the code.<\/p>\n<p>Points to note &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only add to homepage code between HTML head tags<\/li>\n<li>Name and url are required tags<\/li>\n<li>This is not a replacement of WordPress settings, H1 tags or title tags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your site name appearing wrong in Google search?\u00a0 Did you know there is a better way in which you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-61995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-search-engine-optimization","category-google","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}