Title Missing or Empty
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Hello,
I get a 'Title Missing or Empty' for the following page on our website: http://www.niyati.sg/print-design/57/annual-report-design
This error is seen while checking through other tools like Screaming Frog also. Any idea what the issue may be? The page is generated through a custom CMS, so the title and meta descriptions are created the same way as the other portfolio pages, none of which shows any errors.
Thanks in advance!
Ramesh -
No problem my friend. You are most welcome. Once the redirection is in place, please double check that its indeed a 301 and nothing else. You can use any of the HTTP header status checker available online like web-sniffer.net or Screamingfrog.
Best,
Devanur Rafi
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Thanks a lot Devanur!
I think when we change the URL of a page, our CMS is forwarding the old URL to the new one using a 200 redirect, instead of 301. I will get this corrected in the CMS code and see what happens.
Thanks again for your time and effort!
Ramesh
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Hi Ramesh,
Thanks for the info and here is the problem.
This URL, http://www.niyati.sg/print-design/57/booklet-design is pointing to the following URL:
http://www.niyati.sg/print-design/57/annual-report-design
The HTTP header status code is still a 200. This is the issue.
To fix this, you need to redirect the URL, http://www.niyati.sg/print-design/57/booklet-design
via a 301 permanent redirection. A 301 redirection gives an HTTP header status 301 and this tells the search engines that the old URL is no more in force and has been replaced by the new one.
Best of luck my friend.
Devanur Rafi
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Thanks for the efforts, Devanur!
Screaming Frog shows '0' as the page title length, which is strange.
I did try 'fetch as Google' earlier, but don't see a change.
I have also attached the error page on Moz.
Thanks!
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Thanks Martijn!
Did you mean to submit to 'Fetch as Google' under Webmaster tools?
The 'HTML Improvement' section under Webmaster tools doesn't show any errors though.
Even Google's Structured Data testing tool also shows the page title properly.
I am not too much worried about the page as it is indexed on Google, but was curious to know why the SEO tools show error only for this single page.
Thanks again!
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Hi Ramesh,
I checked the URL you gave, http://www.niyati.sg/print-design/57/annual-report-design for missing page title but could not find any issues in there. I used Screamingfrog and others. The page came out with out any issue. I looked at the cache date and it showed 29th August. You can try Fetch as Google in WMT account and then click on Submit to Index.
Best,
Devanur Rafi
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Hi Ramesh,
Try to submit the URL in Google Webmaster Tools to see what Google bot thinks about the page. If they see the title tag properly I wouldn't worry to much about the other crawlers. I checked the page and couldn't find anything out of order which could be causing this.
Cheers.
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