<p>Did you remove the standard title tag placed in the <code>_layout.html</code> file by craft? </p>

<p>This line is probably breaking your SEO title: <code>&lt;title&gt;{% if title is defined %}{{ title }} - {% endif %}{{ siteName }}&lt;/title&gt;</code> This is found inside the <code>&lt;head&gt;</code> tags</p>

<p>If not you should navigate to SEO > Site Meta and take a look in the settings there. The only problem then is that you could only disable the site name being placed not the title. But I guess its the line of code you still have in your _layout</p>

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2017-06-13T12:53:57.983Z
2017-06-13T12:53:57.983Z
Justin Dekkers
<p>For anyone else in my situation who ends up here:</p>
<p>I had already removed the standard <code>&lt;title&gt;</code> tag from my layout.</p>
<p>I was trying to remove &quot;Home - &quot; from my Homepage title using the setting under:</p>
<pre><code>SEOmatic &gt; Global SEO &gt; SEO Title Source
</code></pre>
<p>...but I couldn't understand why this had no effect on the frontend.</p>
<p>Eventually realised there is an individual setting for every section!</p>
<pre><code>SEOmatic &gt; Content SEO &gt; [Section Name] &gt; SEO Title Source
</code></pre>
<p>I just needed to change the Homepage section to use <code>Custom Text</code> and leave the box blank </p>

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2021-04-09T04:02:38.203Z
2021-04-09T04:02:38.203Z
Karl Bishop
<p>Right now my homepage title looks like:</p>

<pre><code>Home page - SiteName
</code></pre>

<p>But i want it to look like this:</p>

<pre><code>SiteName
</code></pre>

<p>How do i do this?</p>

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Seomatic - show only global site title
# Seomatic - show only global site title

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-06-13)

Right now my homepage title looks like:
Home page - SiteName

But i want it to look like this:
SiteName

How do i do this?

**Tags:** plugin-seomatic


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-06-13. Score: 1

Did you remove the standard title tag placed in the `_layout.html` file by craft?

This line is probably breaking your SEO title: `{% if title is defined %}{{ title }} - {% endif %}{{ siteName }}` This is found inside the  tags

If not you should navigate to SEO > Site Meta and take a look in the settings there. The only problem then is that you could only disable the site name being placed not the title. But I guess its the line of code you still have in your \_layout


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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-04-09. Score: 1

For anyone else in my situation who ends up here:
I had already removed the standard  tag from my layout.
I was trying to remove "Home - " from my Homepage title using the setting under:
SEOmatic > Global SEO > SEO Title Source

...but I couldn't understand why this had no effect on the frontend.
Eventually realised there is an individual setting for every section!
SEOmatic > Content SEO > [Section Name] > SEO Title Source

I just needed to change the Homepage section to use Custom Text and leave the box blank


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