Importance of meta title and page title?

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  1. proweb Well-Known Member

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    <meta name="title" content="Title Goes Here" />

    <title>Title Goes Here</title>

    Just wondering what is the importance of the meta title? I know that the page title is important for the search engine, but what about the meta tile?
  2. Adam H Administrator

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    The difference between then is the <title> is the one that appears in google and other searches , and the <meta name ="title" Content="tile here"> is the one that diplays at the top of your browser, IMO both should contain titles with Keywords your are ranking for but you can use different verients for each.

    You'll knowtice that some of Triphp forum sections use this
  3. SeoKungFu Active Member

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    and ... maybe there are still ( forsaken and abandoned from the mass public ) search engines out there in the web that support that tag, and this is not saying that maybe major ones support it ( the tag ), too...so why not use it ? No urban legends and SEO rumors go around, saying that it hurts anyone's websites.
  4. patto New Member

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    I never use this tag <meta name="title" before. Should we have this in our website?
  5. sazymi New Member

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    It helps search engine to visit your site upon single search which relates to your site. It can call the attention of bots to crawl you when you use it. Its one thing to do in SEO as on-page optimization thing.
  6. Barj10 New Member

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    I'm not sure if Google still follow meta tags and description , but just to be safe I will meta tags on my websites.
  7. Alfred New Member

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    Your webpage will have a greater chance of receiving more click-throughs by placing targeted keywords in Meta Title that helps you in SERP ranking.
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    Meta tags like meta title and meta description has a factor in your ranking in SEs.
  9. achang New Member

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    There is no such thing as meta title I think. The only meta is the meta keywords and description.
  10. serptools New Member

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    Hello All
    Title tag very important in SEO.Meta tags like meta title and meta description has a factor in your ranking in SEO

    Thanks
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  12. SeoKungFu Active Member

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    BTW you could have let the link in. And because I find it very unusable not to do so, I'm editing your post. The article deserves reading. If your motives are to have less PR dilution for your signature I think that this is not the best approach. Usability is essential, forums are mainly for exchanging information, and not providing clickable link is making a serious obstacle on that.

    And from the article - a big bright alert light lit in my mind from that part:

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