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Rule · Document head and metadata

Titles are distinct and descriptive

SEO-META-01C2 Recommended· w4

Class
C2 Recommended
Weight
4
Severity on fail
major
Applies to
Google

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Scope and evidence

Evaluated on page (P). The book marks this requirement DOCUMENTED RECOMMENDATION, SEARCH-ENGINE-SPECIFIC.

Never fail on length. Keyword repetition is only a house convention (SEO-META-01-HC).

Fail conditions

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.

  • duplicate

    The title “{title}” is shared by {n} intended pages, including {examples}. Google advises avoiding repeated or boilerplate text in <title> elements and having distinct text that describes each page.

  • vague_home

    The home page title is “{title}”. Google advises avoiding vague descriptors like 'Home' for your home page.

The documented fix

Generate titles from page-specific fields; add the site name once, through a template suffix.

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.