Fixing meta title issue please?

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Hey guys, with my new WP theme I have been running into a problem with the meta title, using yoast or all in one seo the title changes are not reflecting in the page source view. I had hired a WP coder to fix the problem, it was working but now doesn't and he's "looking into it" but I would like to understand a few things with your help please?

First, my research on the net is confusing, one source mentioned:
The Title Tag

Although the title tag appears in the head block of the page, it isn't actually a meta tag. What's the difference? The title tag is a required page "element" according to the W3C. Meta tags are optional page descriptors.


Is that accurate that when I look in the page source here the title I am seeing is NOT a meta title?


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#search engine optimization #fixing #issue #meta #title
  • You may have a meta title for some reason, but the real page title is the one in <title> tag. Ignore meta title, nobody uses it.
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    Why is your price page title showing random text?

    <title> Pricing This is the pricing list for my services: $60Virus removal and cleaning $60Windows repair or reloading $60Hard drive replacement & reload windows $50Data recovery $60Mac software re|Pricing|PcandNetServices</title>
  • The coder is working on the newly developed title issues.

    So now it gets more confusing, I am taking 2 marketing courses which clearly instructs to optimize the title, url and description. So what's the deal here, ignore the titles no matter what it shows?
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    • Well put. You need to do some serious work to develop those kinds of title issues.

      I'm not quite sure what you're trying to even accomplish, or if those strings are just leaking to your title tags for some reason. You should not have a long string of keywords in the title. And if you want, you could just create a few custom fields, and have Yoast SEO display those. Or something.
  • I am trying to clarify things with the coder as I write this, will keep you guys up to speed. Sorry I need to clarify if what the 2 marketing courses is teaching me is correct, should I optimize the meta title as they are saying or completely ignore it please?
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    • It's not that straightforward. There's quite a lot of clueless people who actually mean "title" when they say "meta title". If they're talking about the <title> tag then that's something you should mind. Do you know what they're referring to?

      However, it's not "optimization" to stuff keywords in your title tag.
  • They are referring to the "meta title" I think, the one you edit in Yoast or other SEO plugin. Wait a minute, this is the very basic thing which is confusing me, if you could have a look at the screenshot of the view source page again please,, the title that the arrow is pointing to, is that a regular page title or is that a meta title please?

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    • Meta titles are just like any other meta data. They can be used by your browser if they decide to do so. Search engines can also use the data if they decide to. However, none of the major search engines are using things like meta titles or meta keywords for anything involving rankings.

      Meta titles are in the format of

      Code:
      <meta name="title" content="Page title">
      If a marketing course is telling you that the meta title is important, the author of the course is either lying to you or totally misinformed.

      Title tags, are required for valid W3C markup of a webpage and they ARE used by major search engines as a ranking factor. They are also usually, but not always, what you see show up as the title of a page in the SERPs in Google, Bing, etc.

      Title tags use the format of

      Code:
      <title>Title of your page</title>
  • So to confirm that title which is showing my screenshot is not a meta title but the page title?
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    • If it is written as

      <meta name="title" content="Page title">

      it is a meta title.

      If it is written as

      <title>Title of your page</title>

      then it is a title tag.


      Meta title are utterly useless. Title tags are vitally important.
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    • Yes.

      And the second arrow doesn't even point to meta title, but the meta description. Just read a few characters further. The name of that element is "description", and actual description is in the next attribute that's called "content".
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  • Alright, I am guessing that will be a difficult question to answer far as marketing courses go, guess I will need to deal with what I am currently subscribed to. Moving on, the page title, is that edited in Yoast or in the wordpress php file?
  • The coder I hired is only to do some backend work, he has fixed the title problems. If you look at my page source, everything looks jumbled, this came with the theme and I have to believe it's the theme's problems which was causing yoast not to work properly so much for "premium" themes.

    One last thing on title and description optimization please, in my description in the page source it is showing the apostrophe before the 's' in the word "everyone's"with these characters:
    '

    as shown in this screenshot:
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    Would that be ok for the search engine? If not,what should I do
    here please? Sorry I don't know why those characters are not showing in this post.
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    • That's what I meant. Whoever coded the theme did a lousy job of it.

      The characters don't matter. Plus it's a meta description. It's not a ranking factor.

      Personally, I would write something better than that. Grammar wise, that description is not very good.

      Start with something like:

      "I treat your computer better than I treat my own...."

      It flows much better. Words like 'you' and 'your' make it much more personal than "everyone's".

      I guess those marketing courses you are taking are not teaching any sales skills...
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    Fixing meta title issue please?

    Hey guys, with my new WP theme I have been running into a problem with the meta title, using yoast or all in one seo the title changes are not reflecting in the page source view. I had hired a WP coder to fix the problem, it was working but now doesn't and he's "looking into it" but I would like to understand a few things with your help please? First, my research on the net is confusing, one source mentioned: