2025 Theme’s “Page No Title” Template and SEO Affects

  • Resolved bigfatty

    (@bigfatty)


    3 months ago

    I’m using the default 2025 theme that offers the page template, “Page No Title” that displays the page without the title. I know a page title greatly affects SEO, but a page title on my home page is redundant and repetitive. For example, my home page has the site title tag at the top displaying, “Lake Tahoe Weddings”, and the actual page title displays below the header displaying the same words. Then, below that prior to my opening paragraph and wrapped in an H1 tag, “Simple Lake Tahoe Weddings.”

    I can eliminate the H1’s “Simple Lake Tahoe Weddings”, but that is essentially what the following paragraphs are about, the simplicity of having a wedding in Tahoe. Does the template “Page No Title” simply hide the title, but still maintain it in the database so that search engines still can identify it.

    Thanks for any advice.

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  • Does the template “Page No Title” simply hide the title, but still maintain it in the database so that search engines still can identify it.

    If you entered the title in th editor, yes, it will remain in the database.

    But search engines can’t and don’t access your site’s database: they can only see what is publicly displayed on your site.

    And from a search engine’s perspective, titles and headings are whatever they find publicly on your website. Whether these come from the WordPress post title, a Heading block, or anywhere/anything else — that’s totally irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that you have the title/heading text on your site (with the appropriate HTML markup), not what produced that text.

    If you’re still in doubt, ask your SEO plugin’s vendor… as they’re far more likely to know more about SEO.

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter bigfatty

    (@bigfatty)

    To be sure I understand, are you saying that even if I do use 2025 theme’s “Page No Title” template, which means the page title won’t be seen in the front end, as long as I have a page heading wrapped in an H1 tag, that would be equivalent to the page title in regard to positive SEO?

    Thank you for the advice.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Under the Page No Title template, what you type in the “Add Title” spot in the editor is not displayed on the page, but it’s still wrapped in title tags like <title>Example</title> in the page source, so search engines will pick it up and browsers will display it on the tab.

    Thread Starter bigfatty

    (@bigfatty)

    Thanks for the info James. It looks like I can use the No Title template without worrying about SEO ranking.

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