Google+ Doesn't Show my Post Title
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When I create a new blog post and link to it on Google+, the thumbnail & description are correct, but the HTML title it pulls in is just the company name. I have the proper HTML title tag and OpenGraph tagging on the page too, but lately (last 3 posts) it just shows company name:
Here's an example. It used to work on the first handful of posts, but the last 3 or 4, it just show the "Company Name" next to the thumbnail image & above the description.
<title>Some blog post title - Company Name</name></p> <p>...</p> <p>...</p> <p><span><meta </span><span class="webkit-html-attribute-name">property</span><span>='</span><span class="webkit-html-attribute-value">og:title</span><span>' </span><span class="webkit-html-attribute-name">content</span><span>='</span><span class="webkit-html-attribute-value">Some blog post title - Company Name</span><span>'/></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p></title>
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It turns out it was an issue with schema.org tagging overwriting any opengraph or the actual HTML attributes. The itemscope "name" property was just set to the company name. I had a LocalBusiness schema.org markup on the page which takes precedence on Google+.
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I had a similar issue with G+ (in our case it was duplicating the page title). If I remember correctly the problem was to do with a plugin we were using on Wordpress at the time. The simplest solution we found was to put each G+ post through Hootsuite, which allows you to set the title and description of the post before you post it.
Maybe check if your plugins need a quick update or if you have activated any new ones recently that might be causing the problem. Hope this helps!
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