Title and meta title?

[dougie]

Make sure that <title> and <meta title> are identical.

I saw the above on another thread, could anyone let me know what the differences are please?

[encyclo]

The

title

is simply this in the

head

of your page:

<title>This is my title</title>

The title meta tag exists in various forms, and looks something like this:

<meta name="DC.title" content="This is my title">

However, the original poster is not quite correct: while the

<title>

element is crucial (and required for your page to be valid), the meta title tag has no importance whatsoever to search engines (unless in an intranet environment or if it is used by an internal search engine).

Mostly, it is a waste of bandwidth, and just pushes your real content further down the page.

[anallawalla]

Some people used to recommend that H1, Title and Description should coincide but I don't see that advice lately and I don't follow it.

The Dublin Core Meta Title is seen mainly in govt sites and I don't know if any commercial engines use DC.

[dougie]

Many thanks for that, so, unless anyone knows any different, I won't bother with the second one.