How Do I Change My Title Tags on My Website?
Website owners who create a website must consider the title of the website. A website title is important because search engines use website titles to scan sites for search results. Insert a website title into the header HTML code of a webpage between the title tags. If you decide to change the title tags of your website, you must edit the HTML code of your website and then replace the website code with the edited version of the HTML.
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Open your FTP program. If this is the first time you are using this program, enter the username and password you use to log on to your website domain host. Enter the host URL (the website you are editing) also.
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Notice the left side of the FTP program contains files on your computer. The right side contains files uploaded to your website. Navigate to the webpage of the website with the title tag you wish to change.
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Double-click on this webpage on the right side of the FTP program. Choose to open the webpage using a text editor such as Notepad.
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Scroll to the “Title” tags at the top of the Notepad document. Between the “Title” and “/Title” tags, you should find your current title. Replace this title with the new title you wish to use.
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Click “File” on the Notepad document and select “Save.”
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Select “Overwrite” from the pop-up window that appears in the FTP program next to replace the old HTML code with the new code you just created.
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Wait while the FTP program uploads the new code and replaces the old code. You should see a message indicating the replacement was successful.
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Navigate to the web page with the changed title and click “File” on your web browser. Select “View Source” or “Page Source” to look at the HTML code of your web page. Make sure the title tag contains the revised title you just changed.
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