<p>I have seen some websites use the following tag:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;meta type="title" content="Title of the page" /&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Is it needed when you have a <code>&lt;title&gt;</code>?</p>

<p>Also, what's the best formatting for a page title? Some ideas:</p>

<ul>
<li>Page Description :: Company Name</li>
<li>Page Description - Company Name</li>
<li>Page Description &lt;> Company Name</li>
<li>Company Name: Page Description</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>

<p>Does it matter to Google/Yahoo/etc? Do you include the company name or a general description of the site in the title on every page? </p>

Search engines often ignore meta tags as in the past they where used for spamming purposes. The best tag for title is precisely
```
<title>
```
.
As the best formatting for the title there is no best recipe, but instead try to make the title as descriptive as possible of the real contents of the page.