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    • maklarlabbet
      maklarlabbet last edited by

      Started to fix the SEO issues on a customers website.

      When I run a "On-Page Report Card" It says that the title of the webpage:
      www.visbymaklarna.se/visbymaklarna.html

      Is "visbymäklarna - Ditt förstahandsval på gotland."

      But if I check in the source code of the webbrowser the title should be:
      name="title" content="Vi är mäklarna på Gotland som sätter människan i första rummet" />

      (Actually this is with special encoding for the swedish characters. The title in coded text is: "Vi är mäklarna på Gotland som sätter människan i första rummet")

      Anyway the title of the webpage source code and the title of what SEOmoz reports is different.

      Why is that?

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      • SorinaDascalu
        SorinaDascalu last edited by

        I searched for your page and looked at the code.

        You have in line 6:

        <title>visbymäklarna - Ditt förstahandsval på gotland.</title>

        This is the title of the page, and this is correctly reported by SEOMoz.

        On line 9 you also have:

        This is a metatag that I'm not sure search engines take into consideration, because I personaly can't find any official documentation about this.

        What matters is what you put in the <title>...</title> tag, that is considered the title of the page.

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        • maklarlabbet
          maklarlabbet last edited by

          But of course 🙂
          The back-end is configured badly and show things wrong. A bit stressed today and missed this.
          Thanks!

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