How to fix a Wordpress search result

I use wordpress for my site here. It has 63 separate category pages and I am using the Yoast plugin to SEO pages a bit more. One aspect has me flummoxed (see screenshot of various search results pages in Google) and if you see the title for the top oil related page, it does not have that following “-custom car_____” following the title in the Yoast title.
Why is it appearing in all the search results for each page and how to delete that from the search results or what to do to eliminate that? Thank you…

Good question, unfortunately not one I can confidently answer.

A lot might have to do with “Google does as Google does”.
That is, oft times what or how Google does something is beyond the control of a site.

It looks as though the search result is pulling from this in the head.

<title>Pet Cartoons About Pets And Animals</title>
<meta name="description" content="Cartoons about pets and animals available for licensing and reprinting in professional print and digital projects including advertising"/>
<meta name="robots" content="noodp"/>
<link rel="canonical" href="https://danscartoons.com/cartoon-category/pets/"/>
<link rel="next" href="https://danscartoons.com/cartoon-category/pets/page/2/"/>
<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/+Danscartoons/posts"/>
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="object"/>
<meta property="og:title" content="Pet Cartoons About Pets And Animals"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="Cartoons about pets and animals available for licensing and reprinting in professional print and digital projects including advertising"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="https://danscartoons.com/cartoon-category/pets/"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Cartoons - Custom Cartoon Illustrations - Daily Web Cartoon"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://danscartoons.com/cotd/dailycartoon.php"/>
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"/>
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Cartoons about pets and animals available for licensing and reprinting in professional print and digital projects including advertising"/>
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Pet Cartoons About Pets And Animals"/>

Still, look as I might, I did not see “custom cartoons” anywhere other than an unexact match in the “og:site_name”

Two guesses
Somewhere at some time or even now, Google found links to those pages that had the “custom cartoons” in the link text and it has retained that.
Google is confused by the misuse of og:site_name to keyword stuff instead of for it’s intended use.

I’m leaning to the first, because the second would be a more complex logic. eg.

“Cartoons - Custom Cartoon Illustrations - Daily Web Cartoon”

Why would it skip over the leading Cartoons, and then use the Custom Cartoon, pluralize it, then omit everything after that?

Thanks - it’s very frustrating in that you put in so many hours and devote endless months laying things out…only to discover the so-called “king of all search” doesn’t know what the hell to do. UGH (not to mention it’s probably hurting my SEO…the most frustrating part)

And, is it possible I could remove this line:
og:site_name" content="Cartoons - Custom Cartoon Illustrations - Daily Web Cartoon

I wouldn’t remove it. But I would try to get it to be the actual site name - “DansCartoons”

Whether or not Google ever gets the results to show without the “- custom cartoons” appended to the page title is another thing.

If you have a Google Webmasters account you could check to see if it might be coming from a setting there.

I don’t think I would worry about it hurting SEO much though.

If it were my site I’d focus more effort on getting better position in image search pages.

For some reason, even when searching for “dans cartoons something” though a lot of results are from your site, there are an awful lot shown from other sites mixed into the results.

I wouldn’t like that very much at all.

thanks Mitteneague…I looked into that figure element and note a code can be added into “Functions.php” (right after <php? although not much feedback from the sample I showed…

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Mitteneague: Regarding the unwanted text which follows all of my TITLES in search results. Look at what I found, and tell me if this makes sense.

It seems reasonable.

I did look at the generated HTML as well as view-source and didn’t see it, but I could have very well missed it.

It is odd that the bug has been around for at least 3 years since that topic and still not be fixed or some sort of option to toggle it added yet. (especially since last update was only three weeks ago)

Anyway, if it worked for the others it’s worth a try doing that too.

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