SSI Content and SEs

To <title> or not to <title> is the question.

[cyberfyber]

Hello all. Okay, after banging my head against the wall all day and finally figuring out the obvious (regarding a new site of mine I'm still developing.)

...I realized why my online pages were showing two sets of <title></title>. Turned out I had this heading content in my SSI header page.

Which now leads me to the question: What's the current general belief regarding this? That is, as per the SEs?

I've got this other HUGE site, up for years, which has always had (UNINTENTIONALLY) 3 sets believe it or not. hehehe, due to the SSI footer having the code as well. Google's never ever been bothered by this (unless they just never noticed). But Yahoo had banned me and now that lightbulb above my head is flashing red. Could this perhaps be the answer as to why? (all other things being on the up and up?)

[encyclo]

Confusing and invalid markup can certainly cause problems - I don't know specifically about the multiple

title

tags, but it may be considered a form of spamming. Google may just take one of the title elements in the head and ignore the others, but it is not a good idea to leave such errors in place.

You should definitely clean up the multiple elements, and put your pages through a validator to weed out anything else which might cause trouble:

[validator.w3.org...]

[cyberfyber]

thanks for the response and suggestion!