Rankelle

More than one title tag

The page has several title tags. Search engines take one of them — not necessarily the one you meant — and different engines make different choices.

How to fix it

Keep a single title tag. This is nearly always a layout and a page template both emitting one.

When it is not a problem

A title inside an inline SVG is not a page title and is not counted here. What is counted is two real head titles, and the fix is to find which component added the second.

How Rankelle handles it

  • SeverityWarning. It costs traffic or clarity without stopping anything, which is where most real work lives.
  • DetectionDetected on a single page while crawling it, then grouped with the other pages under the same URL pattern.
  • GroupingEvery page with this finding under the same URL pattern becomes one cause, with a confidence taken from how much of the pattern is affected. 400 of 400 is a template; 6 of 14 is phrased as a question. Causes are ranked by the impressions behind their pages.
  • LandingThe affected URLs stay under cheap watch. When this finding is gone from all of them, the fix is marked landed without anyone reporting the deploy.
  • VerdictAt landing, comparable untouched URLs are frozen as a control set. Twenty-eight days later the two are compared, and the fix can come back as having done nothing — all four verdicts reach the report.

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