New update – SEO issue with Title tags

I believe that using <title> within SVG is valid markup (w3 reference)
However, I also believe that to be correct the <SGV> declaration should have something like xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/2000/svg wihtin it to validate.

That being said, from an SEO point of view Bing will throw it as a “red” error -> probably not a show stopper IMO.

Thanks for these reports, and I’m sorry for my late reply – notification gremlins in the forums here…

As @chris_c mentioned, it’s permitted to use titles in SVGs; it’s even recommended as a best practice in SVG accessibility guidelines: https://css-tricks.com/accessible-svgs/#article-header-id-9.

The W3 validator does not complain about additional titles in SVGs, but if other validators or SEO tools are throwing errors, it’s worth reporting them as potential bugs to the validator maintainers.

The xmlns attribute only needs to be added for files served with the SVG or XML mime types, and StudioPress already includes it for the symbol-defs.svg file itself: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copyblogger/simple-social-icons/7adae99b7b4b5e18fe4893bd889c35ef2ddd168d/symbol-defs.svg

SVG content served inline with the rest of the HTML using the text/html mime type does not require the xmlns attribute: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18467982/are-svg-parameters-such-as-xmlns-and-version-needed#18468348