2 Titles

[FrontlineMobility]

Greetings Champion!

What are the effects of having two titles?

Justin Smith

[msperformance]

Thank you. I don't even know what it is. Have you ever heard of  msvalidate.01?

[msperformance]

Hi Keri, thank you for the insight. I will try to figure out what the msvalidate is.

[DougRoberts]

Is it the Bing webmaster tools validation code?

[msperformance]

2 titles can cause ranking problems.  search engines get confused when there are more than 1. Plainly speaking it just isn't good for seo.

[msperformance]

Ya know I'm not sure. I don't use bing tools. Just yahoo, google and now seomoz. I might add that seomoz kicks butt and I have only been using it for a day or 2. But anyway I took out the title tags but not the whole code. Hopefully that will work.

[DougRoberts]

I suspect having a second blank title tag isn't going to hurt you too badly. The engines are unlikely to decide to use blank content to represent your page in the SERPS.

If you had multiple title tags with different content then there's going to be possible confusion!

[DougRoberts]

If you're not using bing webmaster tools and you didn't add the msvalidate code then  I think you can delete all the html that I quoted in my earlier answer.

[FrontlineMobility]

Hail Champions!

I was speculating that the Dual Titles would enhance Googles perception of the page since there are two authoritative statements of what the page is about.  From your remarks I am seeing this is not the case. Thank you for your wisdom and insight! Good luck on your quests for Page 1!

Justin Smith

[KeriMorgret]

You know, I'd leave in the msvalidate and remove everything else. Bing is offering a LOT more information in their webmaster tools and this now means that you have some historical information built up in your webmaster tools account (presuming it was installed correctly).