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    H1 not showing up

    All my html pages have <h1> headings that would make good titles for search results, but none of them are being picked up, even though I have set the boost for heading to +5. I got "no title" as the link for any html page.
    Any ideas?
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  • #2
    <h1> tags are not used to set the title of a page. They are only headings within the page.

    <title> tags are used to set the title of a page.

    So if you do not have a <title> tag within the <head> part of your HTML page, then "No title" will appear as the link.
    --Ray
    Wrensoft Web Software
    Sydney, Australia
    Zoom Search Engine

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    • #3
      title tags

      Ray,
      Thanks for your answer.
      However, all my pages have titles in the header, but none of them are being picked up. How do I fix this?
      Also, you might want to consider allowing people to use H1 or H2 texts as the title for search results.

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      • #4
        Can you give us a URL to one of your pages? We can check if this is really the case.

        Note that the <title> tag MUST appear within the <head> ... </head> section for it to be recognized. This is as required by the W3C HTML standard.

        We are not considering using the <h1> text for titles at this point. They are officially headings and not titles - which are very different things on most pages (although it may not be for you). We have also not had any other requests for this.
        --Ray
        Wrensoft Web Software
        Sydney, Australia
        Zoom Search Engine

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        • #5
          problem with title tags

          Ray,
          You will find that every page within the subsite that I am searching has correctly placed <title> tags. In fact, the pages are all built on a template with <title> tags in the header area.
          thegef.org/assembly
          John

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          • #6
            You have placed your <title> tags within tags, so Zoom will ignore them.

            -----
            David

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            • #7
              title tags

              Thanks for pointing that out. I have now moved the ZOOMSTOP in the template to below the title tag, updated all pages and re-indexed but am still seeing "No title" for all html pages.

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              • #8
                My guess is that you have re-indexed the cached pages and not the new version. You can turn off caching from the General tab of the Zoom configuration window.

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                David

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                • #9
                  title tags

                  David,
                  It wasn't that setting, but this morning I re-indexed and uploaded and all's well. Thanks to you and Raymond for your support. Despite my struggles with server settings, etc, I'm well impressed with the product.

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