Is <title>different from <h1> and "meta tag title"?</title>

[Jerrion]

hi guys, new to MOZ and SEO. Basic question here.

is <title>different from <h1> and "meta tag title"?</p> <p>I have lots of "title missing or blank" errors as reported by a recent Moz crawl. What do i need to add into the pages to clear these? an <h1>? an <title>? or <meta tag title>? </p> <p>Im running a volusion site, and from what ive read (negative & positive) Volusion can be a pain to optimize my SEO as i dont have full access to all my pages.?</p></title>

[Jerrion]

thanks monica, ive been doing the same with my h1s and the individual product pages. It's certainly time consuming. ill avoid the custom meta sections as well.

[MonicaOConnor]

I just moved out of Volusion, and yes, there are some issues with that platform, specifically URL structure, that make optimizing a pain. Ryan gave you awesome instructions. I would just say do not use the custom meta tag field, it is buggy and creates issues sometimes.

URL text is what shows after the .com/ but before the p/1234.htm

Photo Alt text is your alt image tag

meta tag description is your meta description

The meta tags override is kind of buggy, I wouldn't use it.

There are no automated h1 tags on product pages, so I used to add them manually at the top of the Product Description box. I would just copy the product name and throw an h1 tag around it. The same for h2,3, and 4. For some reason Volusion doesn't automate that.

[RyanPurkey]

Hi Jason. For Volusion specifically, here's their instructions on it: http://support.volusion.com/article/setting-meta-tags-volusion-store-homepage ...

1. Log in to your Admin Area and go to Marketing > SEO.
2. Select Enable Search Engine Optimization Friendly URLs under the Search Engine Friendly URLs heading.
3. Enter values in to the Meta Tag Title, Meta Tag Descriptions, and Meta Tag Keywords fields for the default values and any pages you want to assign specific tags to and click Save.
4. Advanced users can enter their own custom meta tags by selecting Meta Tags Override and entering custom meta information into the Meta Tags Override fields for each page.

So you'll want to edit/add what they call the "Meta Tag Title" in order to clean up those errors. Cheers!

[Hutch42]

A missing title is your meta title, it is the words you see in the tabs on your browser.

H1 elements are in your copy, each page should have one, and it should be the main focus of the page.