## **🗑️ How to Delete OTTO Recommendations**

If OTTO has generated title tag recommendations that are incorrect or that you do not want, you can remove them directly from the OTTO SEO dashboard. Deleted recommendations are removed from your task queue and will never be deployed to your site.

1. In the left sidebar, click **OTTO SEO**.
2. Scroll to the recommendations list and locate the title tag recommendation you want to remove. Use the filters to narrow the list by page URL or recommendation type.
3. Click the **three-dot menu** next to the recommendation.
4. Select **Delete** and confirm when prompted.

To remove several recommendations at once, tick the checkbox beside each item, choose the bulk **Delete** action, and confirm. Deleting a recommendation never changes anything on your live site — it only clears the suggestion from OTTO.

## **💡 Why OTTO Suggests Title Changes You Already Made**

Sometimes OTTO recommends a new title tag even though you already updated the title yourself. These are called **no-op recommendations** — suggestions that would not actually change your page, because your current title already matches, or closely resembles, what OTTO is proposing.

This typically happens when OTTO based its analysis on an earlier crawl of your site, before your manual edit went live. We are actively shipping an update so OTTO can tell the difference between a manual title edit and a genuine optimization opportunity. Until that update reaches your account, use this workaround:

- Delete the no-op recommendation using the steps above.
- Trigger a fresh crawl by going to **OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Crawl Monitoring** so OTTO picks up your current titles.
- After the crawl completes, review any remaining recommendations and delete the ones that duplicate your manual edits.

## **✏️ Keeping Your Article Titles Exactly as You Set Them**

If you specified a title and Search Atlas appears to have invented a different one, the cause is almost always one of the following:

- **The SEO title field overrides the headline.** The title tag used in search results comes from the SEO title field, not the article headline. If that field is left blank, the platform may auto-generate a title.
- **An OTTO title recommendation was deployed** before your manual edit, overwriting your intended title.
- **The sync missed your latest save.** See the next section for how to fix this.

To lock in your preferred title:

1. In the left sidebar, click **Content** and open your article.
2. Open the article SEO settings and type your exact title into the **SEO title** field. Never leave this field blank.
3. Delete any pending OTTO title recommendation for that URL so it cannot overwrite your title when deployed.
4. Save the article, then re-sync it with your site.

## **🔄 Fixing Titles That Look Outdated After Syncing**

On WordPress sites, titles and meta descriptions are copied into Search Atlas by an asynchronous sync. Occasionally a sync misses a recent save, so the platform keeps displaying the old title even though the correct one is live on your site.

1. Open the article in **Content**, click **Save** again, and trigger a manual re-sync.
2. Run a fresh crawl under **OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Crawl Monitoring**.
3. Check the page in **OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Page Explorer** to confirm the fetched title now matches your live page.
4. If OTTO still shows the old version, delete the stale recommendation and reach out to support so we can force a refresh on our side.

## **🚫 Preventing Unwanted Title Recommendations**

- Always fill in the SEO title field for every article so OTTO has nothing to auto-generate.
- Finish your title edits before running a crawl, so OTTO analyzes your final version.
- Delete recommendations you disagree with — OTTO will not re-suggest a deleted recommendation for the same page unless the page changes significantly.
- Re-crawl after bulk title updates so recommendation data stays current.

## **💬 Still Need Help?**

Our team can delete recommendation sets in bulk for you and investigate any title that refuses to sync. If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type **human teammate** to be connected with a member of our team.