There is very useful plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. It is designed with SEO in mind, and it makes keeping your meta title tags, and your <h1> tags in sync easy.

The plugin is hosted at http://github.com/DefV/title_helper/tree/master

Here’s how it works.

In your application layout you call the plugin, passing in your overall site title.

<title><%= title :site_name => "The SEO on Rails Blog" %></title>

If you do nothing else, all pages on your site will have the title “Seo on Rails”.
In your view templates, say app/views/blogpost/view.html.erb you could have this:

<%= title "SEO plugins for Ruby on Rails" %>

This will print out a H1 tag:

<h1>SEO plugins for Ruby on Rails</h1>

At the same time, the plugin will remember the title and insert it into the layout’s <title> tag before your :site_name. In our example that would result in :

<tiitle>SEO plugins for Ruby on Rails – The SEO on Rails Blog</title>

Keeping your <H1> tags and your <title> tags in sync is a good thing, and this plugin helps make it very easy.

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