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Is <meta name="title"> redundant?
Yes, <meta name="title" ../> is superfluous.
It is clear, after reading the HTML specification of the meta tag:
The meta element represents various kinds of metadata that cannot be
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Rankings plummeted when I changed H1 tags to match the title, can I recover my rankings by reversing the changes?
Your h1 is likely not the culprit, but let's find out
First of all, I'd wait about 2 weeks before doing anything. Google just finished rolling out their November spam update. SERPs are a bit volatile ...
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After updating the title and meta description, how long until changes take place on Google?
If you go to Google Search Console website, click on Crawl, the Fetch as Google you can order the page on your website that you are updating to be indexed. From that point, as of the date of this ...
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The word 'behance' appears instead of my title in Google search results
I contacted John Mueller at Google about this issue. He had his team take a look at it and got back to me with the answer.
The word "behance" is coming from an SVG image on your page. The image ...
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Why does Google change / mispell my very site name?
Radiom is not a term. Radio is. Google is using n-gram analysis and term ontologies trying to understand your domain name for semantic value. The best it can come up with is radio and M. If, for ...
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Why is Google rewriting the page title with '[3]' in the search results?
It seems to have to do with duplication of words in the Title. I ran a screaming frog of your site and noticed many Titles have the same words repeated.
Take a look at this search:
https://www.google....
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SEO method to set page titles differently? (same header PHP)
Set the title as a variable and pass it to your include:
<?php
$page_title = 'Welcome to my site';
include("PHP/header.php");
?>
Then inside your header PHP you can use that variable. ...
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My site title or blogpost title, which should be h1?
The blog post title should be H1, as it's the most important piece of text on the page. You'll mostly want people to be able to find you through that one title.
You can ofcourse add your name as the ...
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After updating the title and meta description, how long until changes take place on Google?
There is no definite answer on how long will google take to reflect your content.
But primarily it depends on few important factors like:
How often google crawls this page of your site which again ...
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Title tag different from title appearing in Google?
Yes, it happens sometimes, Google picks up the best title from your site and shows it in Google Search results.
I've already asked this question on another forum.
For example when I search for "...
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Title too long - SEO implications?
They are just warnings. You can ignore them.
Very short titles for SEO was a thing about 7 years ago. At that point the best way to rank was to create a page for every search phrase with a title ...
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How to tell Google that each subfolder is a different site? Otherwise, Google appends the main site's name to every other subfolder
Within another context I have given these examples of how to use hreflang and canonical links. For your purpose I added structural data in the head section of both examples with meta tags indicating ...
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How to tell Google that each subfolder is a different site? Otherwise, Google appends the main site's name to every other subfolder
We checked today on November 29th and the title in the SERP no longer has the - Foobar USA appended to the end. It is now just Foobar Korea (not Foobar Korea - Foobar USA).
Here is what we did
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Include page name in title?
If you are not making your document title excessively long by including the name of the page, then yes, you would be well-advised to include it.
Including the page name in the document title will ...
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Will duplicate articles with changed titles help me rank for multiple keywords?
Duplicating pages to better target the title for keywords is not an effective SEO strategy. There are two things that will work against you:
Google detects when pages are substantially duplicate ...
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Should the brand name appear in each tag title even if it repeats keywords or dilutes from the targeted keyword phrase?
I would be cautious if the keyword you will use as a brand name consists general words, However using brand names will establish your brand for both user & search engines.
A good example is:
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Same og:title and title on a page
It seems counterintuitive to me, but if we take IMDB as an example of proper implementation, we can see that they use the same value for the og:title and <title> tags.
To see for yourself, view ...
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SEO monthly time investment
Okay, so there's a lot here to unpack, but I've done SEO myself and have worked with and selected/rejected a lot of vendors over the years, so I can give you some factors to look at.
First off, looks ...
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Does having the name of a country in the site title hurt SEO for other countries?
Having any word, be it of a country or anything in the title, will positively impact the SEO ranking of your website for that term/word.
The title is very important for higher SEO ranking and ...
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Will duplicate articles with changed titles help me rank for multiple keywords?
You can be certain of one thing: Google does all they can to give people the info they are looking for. Tools on how to tell genuine search querry info have changed over time - and will change. But ...
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H1 followed by H2 without text among the titles afflicts the SEO?
These h1-h4 headings represent the logical heading structure which means there is nothing wrong, You can have a main heading and it can immediately follow it with subheading to categorize your ...
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Should the brand name appear in each tag title even if it repeats keywords or dilutes from the targeted keyword phrase?
There is no hard and fast rule for this but there are few things you need to keep in mind while using your brand name in all of your site's pages title tag.
Google Doesn't like repetition of same ...
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Does having the name of a country in the site HTML <title> based on geolocation hurt SEO?
Google uses searchers from multiple origins but most of them are located in USA. That means that Google will always see the same title:
<title>[Company name] | Discounts in USA</title>
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Why emojis are not appearing in Google's SERP when being added into the <title>?
Google lists their guidelines for this here and state
If your site has a favicon, it can be included in Google Search
results for your site
Your code looks compliant with their guidelines. The only ...
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Will including the page number in the title of the articles in a series affect SEO?
When writing a title for SEO, the unique and keyword rich parts of the title should come first. Parts of the title that are the same across many pages or which don't contain keywords for which it ...
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Will updating the page title without changing the URL hurt SEO?
Totally fine to do this. In fact, it could even be advantageous for reasons to do with semantics.
However, I'd recommend changing the slug from /white_wine to /white-wine.
This is because if you use ...
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SEO-friendly duplicated (decorative) text
After some researches and inspirations I finally found the right solution for my case.
Solution with a custom attribute:
<style>
h2::after { content: attr(data-content); ... }
</style>
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Title tag different from title appearing in Google?
Google recently announced an update to how they will generate page titles. Prior to this update page titles were generated using page content in an attempt to generate a better title. These titles ...
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Can brackets in page titles make it a completely different title to a crawler?
I have seen curly brackets break titles in sitelinks, but not elsewhere.
For example, as of today (20190905), if one googles "cal poly student affairs", one may see the sitelink titled "The He{a}" ...
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Duplicate titles being flagged are on pages with different languages
Try implementing hreflang metadata on each page. It can be a long process, but it should help search engines to see each page as language- and region-specific, and prevent these pages from showing up ...
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