- Class
- C4 Informational
- Weight
- 0
- Severity on fail
- info
- Applies to
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Scope and evidence
Evaluated on page (P). The book marks this requirement SUPPORTED.
Never fails for zero or several h1 elements (§6).
Observations
Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.
inventory{url} has {n} h1 elements; the first reads “{text}”. Google lists heading elements among title-link sources and notes that with several large, prominent headings it "may use the first heading as the text for the title link."
Sources, quoted
These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.
Cited for context; no quote stored.
[G-TITLE] Influencing your title links in search results · How title links in Google Search are created · last updated 2025-12-10
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/title-link“may use the first heading as the text for the title link.”
[G-TITLE] Influencing your title links in search results · Common issues and how Google manages them (No clear main title) · last updated 2025-12-10
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/title-link