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Laurentvw
04-10-2007, 09:15 AM
Hey
I was wondering if putting your title tag in the body of the page affects your search engine rankings?
Here's an example:


<html>
<head>
.... meta tags etc (but not the title tag)
</head>
<body>

Your content

<head><title>Your page title</title></head>

Your content

</body>
</html>

I know that this code structure is not correct if you want to validate your html code, but in practice, the code would still work.
But so, my question was, does it affect your search engine rankings, or better said, won't search engines have any trouble finding your title tag?
stymiee
04-10-2007, 09:47 AM
Putting it in the wrong place does risk having it being missed or having no value as there is no reason for it to be in the body. Hard to give you a definitive answer since no one has tested it as it makes no sense to do.
incrediblehelp
04-10-2007, 01:55 PM
Should be used in the head tag.
Dubbya
04-12-2007, 10:02 AM
Put the title tag where it belongs in the head of the document.

If you want to increase some relevancy in the body of your document, place your page heading <h1>Page heading</h1> as close to the <body> tag as possible.

Keep the page heading short and be sure to use a few highly relevant and targeted keywords.
Ne0
04-15-2007, 02:55 AM
I'd be interested to see what this does for you... I'll keep mine in the <head> area for now ;)

.02
brian.mark
04-16-2007, 06:01 PM
I remember some discussion on a site that had a title in the head and at the end of the page. I never heard what the research came back with, but it was an interesting test that was going to be run.

Let us know if you do conduct such an experiment as to what the results are.

Brian.
jgarner
04-26-2007, 01:52 PM
We actually had an issue with something very similar a few days after this post, so decided to do a little test of our own. It's different by just a bit, but should help to answer this question. You can get the details here (http://seo-factor.com/test/seotitletest/seotitletest.html).

Also, I am certainly not a designer, so please be easy on the look. I threw it together to find an answer and little more. That, and our designer is extremely busy lately.