My Site Shows Up on Google With a Weird Title and Description — Why, and How Do I Fix It?

You search for your business on Google and instead of a clear title and a description that sells, you see something odd: the theme's name, a scrap of your menu, the cookie-banner text, or even "No information is available for this page." It's frustrating, because that one line of text decides whether someone clicks you or your competitor.

The good news: in most cases it's fixable, and often without touching your site's design. The less comfortable news: Google isn't obliged to show exactly what you wrote. In this article I explain clearly why it happens, what you control and what you don't, and give you the concrete steps to appear in search the way you want.

Your title and description are suggestions, not commands

First thing to understand: every page has an "SEO title" (the title tag) and a "meta description" in its code. These are your proposals to Google. Google reads them, but reserves the right to rewrite them if it thinks something else fits the searcher's query better.

It does this on purpose. If someone searches "fridge repair Manchester" and your page has a generic title, Google may pull a snippet from your text that contains those words, to look more relevant.

So your goal isn't to "force" Google, but to give it a version so good and clear that it has no reason to change it. When your title and description are precise, unique on each page, and contain the words customers actually search, Google keeps them almost every time.

Why weird titles and descriptions appear — the real causes

The most common situations I see:

• You never set a description, so Google picks its own snippet from the page — often from the menu, the cookie bar, or an unlucky first paragraph.
• You have the same description on every page, so Google ignores it and improvises.
• The title contains a leftover placeholder from the build: "Home", the WordPress theme name, or "Just another WordPress site".
• Google has an old cached version and hasn't re-read the page since your changes.
• An SEO plugin (Yoast, Rank Math) overrides what you set in the theme, or vice versa — two settings fighting each other.
• The page is blocked in robots.txt or has a noindex, so Google genuinely can't read the description and shows "No information is available".

It's worth identifying which is your case first, because the fix differs.

How to set your title and description correctly

The idea is simple: every important page gets its own title and its own description, written for people, not robots.

• SEO title: keep it short and clear, service plus town, for example "Dental Clinic in Cluj-Napoca — fast appointments". Keep it around 55–60 characters so it isn't cut off.
• Description: a line or two that says what you offer and why choose you, around 150 characters. Don't stuff keywords — write it for a customer.

In WordPress, if you have Yoast or Rank Math, the "SEO title" and "Meta description" fields sit right under the editor on each page. You fill them there, not in the title shown on the site (those are different things).

If the site is custom-built (not WordPress), these texts are set in code, per page. If you don't have access, ask whoever built your site — it's a few minutes' change.

How to make Google re-read the page

Even if you fixed everything today, the old version can still show in results. Google has to visit your page again, and that isn't instant.

To speed it up:

• Open Google Search Console (free) and add your site if you haven't. It's the official tool for talking to Google.
• Use "URL Inspection", paste the page address, and click "Request indexing". That queues the page for a faster re-read.
• While you're there, check the page isn't blocked or set to noindex — Search Console tells you exactly.

Then be patient. It can take from a few days to a few weeks to update in results. Don't resubmit the same page daily — it doesn't help.

When it still won't change — final checks and help

If weeks have passed and the result is the same, work down the list:

• Is the description really unique and filled in on the exact page appearing in Google? Check the URL, not a different page.
• Do you have two active SEO plugins cancelling each other out? Keep only one.
• The site name Google shows is set separately, via structured data — if it's wrong there, that's a different fix.
• The page isn't blocked in robots.txt and doesn't have a leftover noindex from the build phase.

If you're stuck or simply don't want to dig into code, we'll lend a hand. At MPO Web Studio we work fully remote, across the country, and we can check exactly what Google sees for your site and fix the titles and descriptions. Message us on WhatsApp, we'll look together and tell you plainly what to do — with no "I guarantee you the #1 spot on Google" promises, because nobody serious can guarantee that.