(Entry was posted by Neil Cheesma on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/20/2017).

Wordpress Sitewide Site Titles

Dumb SEO Question.... re Wordpress Sitewide Site Titles where it appears on all pages, posts, categories, tags etc (ie as the main site title in the header) where it displays as a duplicate h1 (together with the actual url/page content title) would you suggest it is 1. okay, 2. remove or 3. change to an H2/H3?

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Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

Michael Stricker: If a "sitewide site title" were desired, just be certain that the domain is well-branded...some say it`s overkill to brand titles, but for a new or low-visibility brand, wth
Webado C Webada: There`s no reason in Wordpress to have the same title for multiple pages - except a misconfiguration or user error when using a plugin such as Yoast to define the title for the page. Normally WP generates a page title from the title specified when creating the page or post and the site name defined in the dashboard settings. This pretty mch ensures they are unique though they ay end up too long and this truncated.
Neil Cheesman: How does/could it affect Google SERPSetc with duplicate H1s?
Webado C Webada: Only use multiple h1 if using html5 and each h1 belongs to a section. Otherwise it should be 1 h1 per page.
Alan Bleiweiss: No matter what anybody tells you otherwise, proper SEO requires each page to have it`s own, unique page Title and H1. One page Title and one H1 per page / post. Anything else muddies the imperfect formulaic process for evaluating individual page refined topical focus.