Pages have duplicate H1 and title tags

Hi Ravi,

For reference, can you share a couple of links to articles that were reported as having the issue?

There’s only one H1 in these links. It must be a false positive. Can you ask Sem Rush why it’s reporting duplicate H1s when there is only one H1?

Hi there,

its not a theme related issue
to cover WordPress provides the wp_title function which outputs the <title> tag in the head of your site.
The theme, like all themes that following WP standards, add support for that function.
And in turn WP automatically outputs the title tag.

And by default that tag is made up of document parts including:

Part 1 – the content Title
Part 2 – the site Title.

So unless a SEO plugin or custom function changes the title tag it always has the Content Title inside it.

Why does SEMRush flag this ?

In the past, duplicate content may have been seen as keyword stuffing. Today its more likely a missed opportunity to add more keywords to a page.

But i am unsure and its rather odd that SEMRush themselves audit your site when it seems they don’t have a problem in doing it on their own blog – see this post:

https://www.semrush.com/blog/content-creation-tools/

And its Title and H1 are identical:

<title>37 Best Content Creation Tools & Software in 2023</title>
<h1 data-test="heading-text" class="sc-bBHxTw jDOSQh sc-fXEqDS hzeXp">37 Best Content Creation Tools & Software in 2023</h1>

Might be worth asking SEMRush for more info and what you should change if anything and then use an SEO Plugin to rewrite the title meta if needed.

It would be good to know what they say 🙂