It looks like there are several title tags on my homepage. This was done presumably to embed titles for pop up windows. This is causing an error report in DMOZ. Do the engines also veiw this negatively?

[Furious-D]

My homepage has a normal title tag, but when I look in the code I find the developer also added title tags for pop ups within the homepage code.  Is this causing an issue with the search engines?

[Bromtec]

Can you provide a URL?  It would help if we can see the actual page -

[NakulGoyal]

Sean, as Paul said it would be easier to analyze with the URL available or paste the code fragments after you anonymize your data if you'd rather not have it discussed in public or PM the URL.

[Furious-D]

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[Bromtec]

Hi Sean,

Search engines are going to look at the title element that is inside of the head element.  Moreover, W3C HTML standard / definition only allows for one title element only.

Should you include more than one title element, whichever will be chosen / indexed by a search engine is anyone's guess.  I'm not sure how they handle that.

In regards to the homepage content, it looks like you could use a bit more.  I see you have styles defined for an H1 & H2 tags, but no H1 or H2 elements on the page.

Moreover, it looks like you have several lightbox popups.  It's good that you have the actual content for each one in the main source for your homepage (vs. being loaded dynamically), but you'd probably benefit from altering the design a bit to make that content / text visible without the popup.

[Furious-D]

Paul,

Thank you for the help. You have confirmed everything I was thinking.