Avada SEO changed my meta titles on Shopify — how to undo it and restore the originals
Avada SEO Suite's on-page audit and meta-tag template apply their own title pattern across your products, which can replace the titles you wrote by hand — and a bulk-apply like that has no built-in undo. Shopify keeps no version history of the SEO title field, so support can't roll it back and there's no record of what your titles said before. The originals only still exist if something captured them before Avada's run.
Step by step
Confirm Avada is the source and stop it re-applying. Open Avada SEO Suite and look at its meta-tag template / on-page "optimize" feature — if a title template like {{ product.title }} - {{ shop.name }} is active, that's what wrote over your hand-written titles, and it will run again on the next pass. Turn that specific rule off (or pause the app) before you touch anything else, or your corrections get overwritten a second time.
Find the original titles before they're gone for good. Shopify has no undo for the SEO title field, so you need a copy from outside it: a product CSV export with the SEO Title column (Matrixify or Shopify's) taken before the change, a Google Search Console Performance report filtered per page (the old title often still shows for a few days before a recrawl), or the page source on the Wayback Machine. Copy the exact wording rather than rewriting from memory — you want the version Google was actually ranking.
Put the correct titles back and verify both fields. Re-import the SEO Title column from your pre-change CSV, or paste each one under Products > [product] > Search engine listing > Edit. Check the visible product title AND the page <title> (SEO title) separately — Avada's template usually only touches the SEO title, so the two can drift apart. Then run URL Inspection > Request Indexing in Search Console on your top pages so Google recrawls the right title; the snippet can lag a few days.
Make the next bulk overwrite a one-click undo instead of a rebuild. The reason this stung is that nothing was recording your titles, so when the template ran there was no before-state to compare against or restore. Keep a daily snapshot of every product and collection's SEO title (plus meta description, alt-text, tags and handles): a bulk change is then flagged the day it happens, with the app that likely caused it named, and you restore your original hand-written titles field-by-field in one click — no CSV hunting, no waiting on support.
Source: Shopify Help Center: editing search engine listings (meta title / SEO title); plus Shopify Community threads on SEO apps overwriting meta titles via templates.
SEO Vault keeps a daily snapshot of every SEO field on your store — meta titles, descriptions, alt-text, tags, handles (products AND collections) — and emails you the moment something changes in bulk, with the likely app responsible. One click restores yesterday's state, just the SEO fields. Free to monitor and get alerted; $14/mo for 1-click restore.