Having both <title>and <meta name="title"...> on a web page?</title>

[DigitalJungle]

Hi All,

Client of mine using reversed Meta Tags format in their website and Honestly i never saw such Meta Tags formats.

In my opinion having 2 Title tags and wrong reversed description tag is not correct and the needs to be removed, and other tags need to be changed,too

But they said that it probably doesn't make a difference because weird thing is Search Engines are apparently able to index them ,So they don't think it affects search engine results and won't remove it just based on opinion.

So should i persist in correcting them or just hope for the best and ignore it?!?!?!

Thanks!

[lavellester]

Hi,

Just to clarify - they use

and

<title>..</title>

?

[DigitalJungle]

Hi Lavellester,

Yes, They are using both of them.

[SuperlativB]

That will confuse the engine if you ask me. Even if the engines crawl your page and put into index doesnt mean it's a good way to approach SEO.

I say get rid of the meta title and stick with just the

[lavellester]

I don't recall ever seeing this format before.

As you are using the <title>,,,</title> tag I don't think it makes any difference if the meta title definition stays or goes.

Meta data is data about the page and the search engines will use or disregard it.  For example the search engines no longer take note of the meta keywords but instead look at other signals to determine what a page is about.

Maybe there is an argument to remove it in the sense it makes the page look spammy?

Plus its not required.

[DigitalJungle]

Yes, it is good that they have in place and In terms of meta keywords, i don't mind if it stays or not. But I would definitely want the meta description tags to be correct.

I never saw this formats before,too . They told me it was generated by Javascript or something.

[EricaMcGillivray]

I'd definitely have them remove it as you'll be getting errors for having 2 page titles. You want to stick with <title>...</title>