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<h2 id="how-to-confirm-it">How to confirm it</h2>
<p>Run this against your own domain:</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash">curl -sS https://example.com/page | grep -o "<title>[^<]*</title>\|name=\"description\" content=\"[^\"]*\"" | head -4
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<h2 id="how-to-fix-it">How to fix it</h2>
<p>Make the title unique per page, front-load the subject, keep it under about 60 characters, and keep H1/og:title/JSON-LD headline consistent with it. A description that repeats the site tagline on every page gives Google nothing to use.</p>
<h2 id="where-it-fits">Where it fits</h2>
<p>This is a symptom of a failed check — here it points at <strong>B1</strong>. The failure it belongs to is
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