Missing Title Tags on Include Files?
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GWT is telling me 3 of my include files (Contact Form - Header - Footer) are missing a Title Tag. This has never happened to me before and don't know how to tackle it.
On the other hand the warning refers to a subdirectory of my site to these respective include files… The main directory, with literally the same html structure and no Title, returns no errors.
Any ideas as to why this error now? or how to fix it?
Thanks,
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By 'include files', do you mean that you have one central design (e.g. an index.php) and then a query pulls in the correct page?
If your pages are pulled in from that subdirectory and if you're now getting errors, then I suggest you
- Check to see if those pages are included in Google's index, using a "site:" query
- Use a robots.txt disallow command to prevent it from being included in future.
For it to have appeared in Google's index in the first place, either these files are in your sitemap.xml or you've accidentally created a direct link from somewhere to those files. Either way, check your folder security and block anything that shouldn't have access to those files.
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