Missing Title for Sitemap
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Our site is built on Wordpress and we use a very popular SEO plugin called Yoast to generate our sitemap (as well as handle multiple other SEO functions). When MOZ's spider crawls our site, this sitemap triggers an error saying "Missing Title or Empty." My question is how can I avoid having this error hurt me in terms of my rankings. It seems strange to me that such a ubiquitous plugin would be generating something as important as a sitemap in an incorrect format.
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Hi ShatterBuggy,
It sounds like it's not the sitemap that's the issue, but rather the title tag on the individual pages are missing or empty. Here's the Yoast plugin tutorial section on configuring and optimizing title tags: https://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#titles
-Trung
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