I want a different H1 to Meta Title

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  cquilty52 · Member · Jul 20, 2015 at 8:44 am

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  Hi all,

  I want the option to have a different Meta Title to my H1. Can’t see the field on the edit post page – is this a property of the theme I choose or is it a limitation of the free wordpress CMS?

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Jul 20, 2015 at 8:50 am

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  What do you mean by meat title, please?

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Jul 20, 2015 at 8:51 am

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  Sorry I meant, What do you mean by meta title, please?

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  cquilty52 · Member · Jul 20, 2015 at 9:15 am

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  Google usually uses the TITLE tag for the title of a post in search engine listings.

  I am used to being able to set a TITLE tag that is independent of the H1 heading.

  for example
  the TITLE may look like this
  <TITLE>This is the title</TITLE>
  <H1>and this is the heading 1</H1>

  But on my wordpress.com blog (using Baskerville theme) they are the same field

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Jul 20, 2015 at 9:19 am

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  There is no option to have a different values for title and post heading.

  Is there a reason you believe this makes difference to your SEO?

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  cquilty52 · Member · Jul 20, 2015 at 10:12 am

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  There are reasons why, on occasion, I might choose a slightly different h1 to Title.

  The TITLE tag has to be more economical with the amount of words – so I might choose to condense a particularly complicated H1 to its most basest form whilst allowing the H1 to more fully explain the content of the page