The other day I asked John Mueller on Twitter to confirm that Google can handle and not confuse the titles in the SVG images with the page title. Turns out, John answered this question back in May saying that titles in SVG images are not something to worry about, that Google can handle it.

Here is sample source code of titles in SVG images:

The concern is would Google pull the titles from the SVG and confuse those with the title attribute from your page’s source code, used for the title link in Google Search? The answer is no, at least, not anymore. Google had an issue with it a couple years back but not anymore.

I remember this recording, only after Glenn Gabe posted about it. It starts at the 17:27 mark where John was asked about this:

John responded that “I think this was an issue a couple of years back. But I think we’ve since resolved that.” He said “in general, I wouldn’t worry about this, especially if you’re seeing the search results are OK.” He goes on to explain that titles in SVGs would not have any impact on your overall web search rankings, he said “it wouldn’t cause any issues with ranking of the pages.” It might come into play with image search rankings but not web search, he added.

Here is the rest of the transcript:

Here is the video embed:

Forum discussion at Twitter.