Hey guys, with my new WP theme I have been running into a problem with the meta title, using yoast or all in one seo the title changes are not reflecting in the page source view. I had hired a WP coder to fix the problem, it was working but now doesn't and he's "looking into it" but I would like to understand a few things with your help please? First, my research on the net is confusing, one source mentioned: The Title Tag Although the title tag appears in the head block of the page, it isn’t actually a meta tag. What’s the difference? The title tag is a required page “element” according to the W3C. Meta tags are optional page descriptors. Is that accurate that when I look in the page source here the title I am seeing is NOT a meta title? http://imgur.com/FFyggeu
Search engines are increasingly choosing the title for a page based on the contextual relationship of the page and the search query, rather than using a static title. The advice for some time from the SEO industry is to ignore meta data, the search engines do!