Hello infinityfree community, I wanted to ask if anyone knows how to solve this little problem:
Google search results show the term “free.nf” instead of my page name. I’ve tried to fix this in the WordPress settings, the hosting settings, the Divi template generator plugin settings, YOAST SEO, Google Search Console, and nothing. I can’t figure out how to fix it.
I see that all the pages hosted on Infinityfree have the same problem, except for a few.
If you mean “did nothing” as “nothing happens right after changing the settings”, then it’s normal.
Because nothing on Google happens instantly. One day Google will update it as long as the settings in your plugin is correct — it might be days, weeks, months…
But you simply don’t expect these to change immediately after you’ve tinkered with some settings in your website.
Hello Meishin. Thank you for your reply, but I don’t think that’s the case for me. I’ve had this website for about seven months, and from the beginning I’ve tried to change the title free.nf to the name of my site, but I haven’t been able to
I don’t know what else to try.
I’ve attached other screenshot.
You need an SEO plugin.
WordPress default settings is not geared toward this, it’s pretty general and is not favoured by Google when they determine your website’s name.
Hello. I’ve checked your page and it seems you are using Yoast SEO plugin. If everything was set since May or earlier, you did right and Google should at least had visited you once.
I can’t be really sure. But Google can be instructed for alternatives and there are tips for better names. You can fill in the alternateName property in case your top choice is not selected. You did not need to settle just for one. Also, you rank quite high in SEO. You are the top for Econiweb. However, your desired site name may fall to “Avoid using a generic name.” Econiweb is unique but the words after it if translated are generic. Tantra Yoni Torino got it because it looks short and unique. Also InfinityFree and Tantra Yoni Torino are more concise compared to Econiweb Diseño de páginas web económicas.
Also, if you have Google Webmaster account, have your sitemap uploaded and crawled, so you can check if Google visited your site and if it found problems. No need to be disheartened. Google’s crawl cannot be predicted. Cheers!
Is there a way I can google search “marcus” and “free.nf” and not get some football player named Marcus Freeman? No offense, I am just more of a baseball fan (Toronto Blue Jays now.)
This is not your topic, and that’s not the subject of this topic.
No, you cannot. Google decides what they think is the best result for your query, and if they decide that information about Marcus Freeman is the most relevant for your query of “marcus free.nf”, then those are the results you get. You cannot just choose keywords and force Google to put your website on top for those keywords.
Hello siglo_ph, thank you very much. I think the problem is the title I chose, as you say, it is very generic: “Econiweb Diseño de páginas web económicas.” I also read a little more in the Google documentation, as you suggested, and it does indeed say a lot about “generic names will not be taken into consideration.” So I’m going to change it to simply “Econiweb.”
I also read a little about structured metadata, but I found that complicated, jajajaja, my knowledge doesn’t extend that far yet.
I’m very grateful… I’ll make the change, re-upload the sitemap, and wait for Google to consider it in a while
