For search purposes, which exactly is "page title," what header number is it?

  • Hi,
    I’m using SEO by Yoast to optimize my pages. It keeps cautioning me that my “page title” is too short, and that a minimum of 40 characters is best. I can’t understand this, as a long page title isn’t always optimal, especially on Pictorico. It also is giving me other page title cautions, which I can’t seem to reconcile.

    So I want to clarify: Which is the page title, exactly? Is it the title of each post on the front page? The page link?
    I have included the post title at the top of every post and that hasn’t helped.

    Also, for search purposes, which favor a heirarchy of heads and subheads, what category head do the post of each title on the front page fall into? Is is H1? H2?

    Thanks for any clarification.

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  • Thread Starter ralexandra

    (@ralexandra)

    Ok, I think I figured this out? The page title is not the post title which appears on the front page. It’s the actual title you type in under SEO title in Yoast page analysis.

    But I would like to know what the front page headers are….H1? H2?

    If you right-click on a page heading and view the tag in a browser inspector (such as the one built into Chrome or Firefox), you’ll see what HTML element it consists of.

    On the homepage, for example, each post heading in the grid looks something like this:

    <h1 class="entry-title">
    <a rel="bookmark" href="https://pictoricodemo.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/morning-tea/"></a>
</h1>
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