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Ack! No title? I checked my source to make sure, and every page has a title. Why is this happening, and does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks.
We do use cold fusion, if that makes a difference.
I had the same trouble and I found a solution here!
I had these linee in the HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "--//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<!Copyright 1998-1999 Mysite "www.mysite.com">
i got the suggestion to delete that lines. I deleted it; it seemed to me that the copyright tag was the reason.
Try to submit you site to this site:
[searchgoat.com...]
This is like a checker for the title tag. Submitting my site to searchgot the first time I got no title; after deleting the two mentioned lines and resubmitting it, I got the title!!
Now I am ranking fine on Fast.
Angiolo
I am not sure I should post my company web sites, that is why I didn't list it. I was just woindering if anyone would know off hand of what is causing this. I have an email in to All the Web, so hopefully they can give me an answer. Thanks.
Comments are done with
<!-- comment -->
The hyphens are required. That's what it was complaining about.
I'll follow up in this thread: [webmasterworld.com...]
Fast never returned my email, so I really need to get an answer to this.
The question again is my page titles are not showing up in Fast, and Lycos. It is listing 'No Title' on the search results. This is obviously killing my ranking on the ten sites I own with the same problem.
I validated the pages, and there was no problem I noticed anywhere near the title tag. My sites all have valid title, and meta tags. The sites use cold fusion. On all our sites there is no code on the first hundred lines of space or so. I am told it is something to do with cold fusion. Could it be that the Fast spider only looks so far down the page for the title tag, and then stops looking?
I really need to get an answer if possible please. Again as a reminder, the sites I am referring to are not in my profile. Thanks all.
I actually got a response from FAST the first time, but deleted it because they didn't identify themselves, and I thought it was someone trying to get money from me to help.
After this last post they contacted me again(still no identity, but the source of the email came from FAST). The problem was the first tag in my source code is a comment tag. The programmers ended the comment tag with this ---> instead of this -->
The first proper closing comment tag on the page is just past the meta tags in the style tag. So the spider was completely bypassing my meta tags. :(
Across 10 major websites this is a huge mistake! I assume this would effect our rankings on other engines too since even though the other engines have interpreted my meta tags just fine, would this still have been hurting my ranking a little if they were reading it as a comment tag? Anyone wish to chime in on that with an opinion?
I want to really thank FAST for being so helpful, and persistant in helping me besides my rudeness of deleting their first email. :)
Now you guys know, that FAST does monitor this board. Not sure they wanted me to tell you that, but I think it is a positive thing in their favor.
Thanks everyone!
Thanks guys.
'deleted it because they didn't identify themselves' (shades of the X-files)
