How I learned to debug troubled titles

Martin and guest Luke Davis, Technical SEO Specialist at Impression, discuss a case study where multiple pages showed duplicate titles, a problem when looking to optimize a website for search engines. Learn how Luke figured out it was a JavaScript rendering issue on the client-side as he shares what steps and tools he took to debug the SEO problem.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:54 - Once upon a time, there were some troublesome titles
2:17 - Lighthouse to illuminate the problem
3:48 - Talking to your peers
5:49 - Working with developers
7:37 - Rendering options explained
10:02 - Rendering: Doing it right
12:12 - How to check if the fix works?
13:18 - Tools for troubleshooting
16:50 - Using the URL inspection tool
18:57 - Wrap up
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[@JessJoyce]

Wonderful to see Luke having a chat about tech solutions! Super helpful :)

[@healthyplanet5482]

Super interesting and helpful as we already faced the same issue.Can't wait to see the next episode!

[@TopicalAuthority]

Thank you, Martin and Luke.

[@jestershark]

This is a super userful video about solutions-- I hope this series continues!

[@SEOAudits]

Thanks for the insight, love learning how to debug and talk with devs from these series :)

[@PabloFernandezRguez]

Super useful guys! Keep going!

[@andershansen9204]

As someone who listens to these rather watch them, if you could read aloud the text in the transitions it would be SO helpful for catching the context. Otherwise fantastic video!

[@carlenecordova4071]

This was fantastic! Love the props :)

[@thomasvav7197]

Very interesting topic. Is there any tool like Screaming Frog or anything else that does this kind of title comparison, in order to discover discrepancies between an assigned title and a different served title?

[@santhiyarevanth9817]

t says: "Page is not indexed: URL is unknown to Google" All the options below that (Discovery, Crawl, Indexing) are N/A pls help me

[@dennispickert3576]

Google Webmaster Tools > HTML Improvements > Search Appearance (410) was very helpfully 😊 to identify and solve a similar issue.

[@RaviGidwani5]

@Martin Splitt yes rendertron is free, just needs some attention from you on the pending PRs 😉. I will be happy to help

[@tbugaevsky]

Long-long time ago there were server languages like PHP and there was no need to re-invent server-side rendering :)

[@splitti]

Psst, they still exist ans you may use them at your own discretion ;)

[@aqil199]

Thanks martin, why don't you continue the mythbusting