Repeated title tag: what it means and how to fix it

What we look for

The code of these pages holds more than one <title> tag, which sets the headline shown in search results and browser tabs. Only pages search engines may list are counted.

Why it matters

Search engines use only one of them, not always the one you meant, so the headline in results may not be the one you wrote.

How to fix

Remove the extra <title> tags so each page has one, in the page template or the SEO plugin that adds them. This often happens when a theme and a plugin both write one.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal: When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: page_titles.multiple_tags
crawl.json and the CSV: The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "page_titles.multiple_tags"
The HTML report: This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=page_titles.multiple_tags
MCP: raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings { "job_id": "...", "check_id": "page_titles.multiple_tags" }