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Title tag vs article title

by Gogito
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So, just got into SEO lately and I've been getting the hang of it, only that I can't seem to find any info about how title tags and article ttle work.
To clarify, what I've found out is, title tags is what shows on top of the browser and more importantly, on Google.
Article title is actually the title of your page,like at the top of your page.
What I've been wondering is, is it ok to have these 2 different from each other ?
I've read somewhere that doing that might get penalty by Google since that might indicate "fake title".
Anyone ?
#article #tag #title
  • Profile picture of the author Patho
    It would not make sense to make it different... A title is already a H1 tag and you want to have 1 H1 tag in the source of your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author devinesoul186
    Title tag and article titles can be written differently but you should remember that title tag should represent the about the content in the article and should not be different form it.
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    Oh , what I want to do is to write the title tag for the SE and the article tag for reader. Kinda
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  • Profile picture of the author insidmal
    You're not really going to get a different title that is viewed vs what a search engine sees... they've learned to identify content that isn't visible to users and ignore it
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by Patho View Post

      It would not make sense to make it different... A title is already a H1 tag and you want to have 1 H1 tag in the source of your site.
      It makes sense to have different text for both a <title> & <h1> because both those tags can be switched out as the SERP title. Since both tags can be switched out for the SERP title you can target 2 variations of the same keyword per page. So now the 1 page is highly optimized for two traffic sources (2 keywords).





      Originally Posted by devinesoul186 View Post

      Title tag and article titles can be written differently but you should remember that title tag should represent the about the content in the article and should not be different form it.
      Exactly... relevancy is strong when it comes to ranking pages, especially when your trying to rank multiple pages for very similar keywords.




      Originally Posted by Gogito View Post

      Oh , what I want to do is to write the title tag for the SE and the article tag for reader. Kinda
      It's a <title> tag & <h1> tag, there's no article title tag.





      Originally Posted by insidmal View Post

      You're not really going to get a different title that is viewed vs what a search engine sees... they've learned to identify content that isn't visible to users and ignore it
      That's not necessarily true, an <h1> tag (text) can be forced to show up as a SERP title. The <h1> doesn't have to be directly visible, example, it could be inside of a tab on a page, or a drop down content like on an FAQ page, etc... there's different situations depending on how the page is setup.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    They can be different from each other and it's ok so far as both of them are similar in meaning. For example,

    Your title tag could be 'How To Lose Weight Fast'

    Your article title could be '5 Effective Ways To Lose Weight Fast'

    Use a WordPress SEO plugin to specify your title tag. Your article title is the title you entered while creating the page/post.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by Gogito View Post

    What I've been wondering is, is it ok to have these 2 different from each other ?

    I've read somewhere that doing that might get penalty by Google since that might indicate "fake title".
    Anyone ?
    Your first question, of course it's okay. I can't fathom why anyone would even do them the same, if
    they were doing things manually.

    Second question, I don't know where (on Earth) you could possibly have read, unless
    you were following some clueless person. Sadly, it happens.

    You don't have to make your h1 the title of your article. People would only assume that the words
    above the start of an article "might" be the title. But many articles have several "titles" and
    subtitles.

    I would even go as far as to say, "Why waste SEO space using the same text for h1 and title tag?"

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