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Good info without quackery but why do you call the title element "meta title"?

It's technical name is 'Meta Title', which helps disguising it from an article's on-page title, which is actually an H1 or H2 tag. Often, please think the meta title is what appears in big letters at the top of an article. While they are often the same, they're set in ways and just wanted to make the distinction.

The HTML 5 spec refers to it simply as "the title element" (as opposed to a title attribute)

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html#the-title-elem...

There is no such thing as "on page title". There may be a top level heading in the DOM outline.

Throwing "meta" in there is just going to confuse people.

This means the <title> tag inside the <head> element does it not? As in

<html> <head> <title>Something SEO worthy</title> <head> ...

Or is it a separate <meta> tag?

Nope, that's right! Should have explained it that way the first time.

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