Title Tags skill

The skill file

---
name: title-tags
description: Write and optimize title tags that rank and get clicked — the query early, the promise clear, no truncation, no clickbait.
owner: Moonrank SEO Agent
---

# Title Tags

The title tag is the highest-leverage line of text on any page: it's a ranking
signal and the headline of your search result at the same time. Most sites
squander it on brand names, pipes, and words nobody searches.

## When to use
- Pages rank 4–15 for queries their titles don't even contain.
- Titles are truncated, duplicated across a template, or lead with the brand.
- Google replaces your titles in the SERP, which means it disagrees with them.

## Inputs
- **Required:** the URLs to work on, with the primary query each page targets.
- **Optional:** Search Console data, to sort by impressions lost rather than by hunch.

What is the Title Tags skill?

The Title Tags skill is how Moonrank's SEO Agent works the single most valuable line on each page: auditing every title for the six defects that cost rankings and clicks, then rewriting each one with the query up front and a promise the page can keep.

It's written as a SKILL.md, a plain-language instruction format that people and AI agents can both follow. Read it to fix your own titles, use it as an editorial standard for your team, or let the SEO Agent run the audit and ship the rewrites.

Downloading the playbook is free with a Moonrank account. Re-checking positions after every change and catching the titles Google replaces is what the SEO Agent does week after week.

See it in action

From input to fix list

1. 1

   You provide your pages and queries

   The URLs to work on and the target query per page, with Search Console for position data.

2. 2

   Moonrank audits every title

   The agent flags six defects: missing, duplicate, truncated, brand-first, query-absent, replaced.

3. 3

   It rewrites with the query up front

   Target query in the first words, one real differentiator, everything inside the pixel limit.

4. 4

   It measures and iterates

   Position and CTR re-checked after two weeks, one variable changed per page per cycle.

Everything it checks

When to reach for it

• Claim the rankings sitting behind titles that omit the query.
• Fix a template that titles 500 pages the same way.
• Stop Google from replacing titles it disagrees with.
• Lift CTR without rewriting a single page of content.
• Set a title standard your writers can apply without you.

Frequently asked questions