Yoast SEO plugin showing Site Title

[nicole2014]

I have set Yoast SEO plugin to show the page title only but in the search results it appears as follows:
page/post title - site tile

In the source code the title appears as follows:

<title>page/post title</title>

If the "site title" isn't coming from the Yoast seo plugin could it be coming from Genesis?

This seems to be happening with various child themes that I am using.

http://101planners.com

[Victor Font]

No. Whatever you're seeing is not coming from Genesis. Genesis SEO output is disabled when 3rd-party SEO plugins are in use.

This is what I see in your title on the search results page:

<title>You searched for planner - 101 Planners</title>

For a search results page, this is the correct display. I see nothing out of the ordinary.

Search page titles are setup under Yoast's Search Appearance/Archives tab in the Special Pages section.

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[nicole2014]

Thank you for your response.

In Yoast's Search Appearance -> Posts -> Seo title -> I only specified post title so I should not be seeing the Site title as well.

Where is the site title coming from them? Its not from Yoast because Yoast enters the text that appears in the <title> in the source code and the Site Title doesn't appear in <title>.

[Victor Font]

I don't see the site title when I view your posts. You might want to try clearing all of your caches.

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[nicole2014]

I don't see it on my posts only in Google's search results.

For example:
site:creative-certificates.com

[Victor Font]

What you see on Google can always be different that what you think it should display has nothing to do with your site, Yoast, or Genesis. You can be looking at content that has been indexed way before you changed Yoast. Changing your site does not not cause Google to reindex pages. You have to wait for them to circle back around, which can take weeks or months.

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[Unisun]

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Features

Yoast SEO is the most comprehensive WordPress SEO plugin with many built-in tools and features. Here is a quick overview of some of those features.

Change post’s SEO title and meta description on a per post basis.
Title and meta description support for taxonomies (e.g. category and tags).
Google search result snippet previews.
Focus keyword testing.
Meta Robots configuration:Easily add noodp, noydir meta tags.Easily noindex, or nofollow pages, taxonomies or entire archives.
Improved canonical support, adding canonical to taxonomy archives, single posts and pages and the front page.
RSS footer / header configuration.
Permalink clean ups, while still allowing for Google Custom Search.
Breadcrumbs support, with configurable breadcrumbs titles.
XML Sitemaps with:ImagesConfigurable removal of post types and taxonomiesPages or posts that have been noindexed will not show in XML sitemap (but can if you want them too).
XML News Sitemaps.
.htaccess and robots.txt editor.
Ability to verify Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Site Explorer, and Bing Webmaster Tools
Basic import functionality for HeadSpace2 and All in One SEO. (You can also use the SEO Data Transporter to transfer functionality from themes like Thesis, Headway, Genesis etc).
The premium version of the Yoast SEO comes with even more features.

A redirect manager that allows you to easily set up redirects.
Video tutorials to help you understand each feature of the plugin.
Premium support provided by the folks at Yoast to help you make the most out of your site’s SEO.
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How to Setup WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast

You should remember, that the settings that we select are the ones that we recommend. Other experts may have their own preferences and discretion, so advanced users can ignore anything that they do not like.

If you are a beginner, and you want to use Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin like we do, then please follow along the steps carefully.

Step 1. Data Transfer

Most of you probably have another WordPress plugin like All in One SEO pack, or a theme framework like Genesis dealing with your SEO data.

If you want to successfully use this plugin, then you need to make sure that all of your previous data has been transported to this plugin before you deactivate the other one.

To accomplish this, we recommend using SEO Data Transporter by StudioPress. If you’re setting this up on a new blog, then skip this step.

Step 2. General Settings

Clicking on the SEO icon takes you to settings page for the plugin. Click on ‘General’ tab and you will notice a button to open configuration wizard. We want you to ignore this wizard, because we will be taking you step by step through each option.

Step 3. Features

Let’s switch to the ‘Features’ tab and enable the advanced settings page. Don’t forget to click on the save changes button to store your settings. You will notice new items appear under the SEO option in your WordPress menu.

Step 4. Your Info

Next, you need to switch to the ‘Your Info’ tab. This is where you will provide information about your site and the person or company behind it. First you need to provide a site name and an alternate name for search engines to consider. Your site’s name could be your site’s title. If you do not enter anything here, then Yoast SEO will automatically use your site’s title as your website nam.

Step 5. Webmaster Tools

If you know a little bit about SEO, then you have probably heard that each of the popular search engines, Google, Bing, Yandex, and Alexa allow site owners to add their sites using webmaster tools area (see our guide on how to add your WordPress site to Google webmaster tools).

Webmaster tools let you see insights and other relevant data about your site from specific search engines.

In order to verify your site and see those exclusive data, you have to add a meta tag to your site, or upload a file. Most beginners are afraid to add meta tags, so Yoast put this option in to ease the process. Simply add the meta code that you received from the search engines in the respective fields.

Step 6. Security

The last tab in general settings is labeled Security. This has only one option which disables advanced part of the WordPress SEO meta box. We recommend that you leave it disabled.

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