You are not alone, it’s just that on work-days there are more usrs visiting the forum…
As for the TITLE there is no reason why should google want it above… TITLE should be in the HEAD section… and that’s all… google will find it if it’s there… it’s better to pay attention what is written in the TITLE then where it is…
Anyway if you want your <title> to be just below the <head>, edit <your project>/protected/view/layout/main.php and put the TITLE element where you want it…
Concerning TITLE I feel it is a never end story. Others very good specialist said the importance of placing head as I previously said. But anyway, you’re right when you said the content of Title is more important.
I do not understand your hints ‘editing the main layout file and placing the TITLE as I want’
If I use a widget like CGridView it will place the js and Css at the top, just before Title.
I can indicate js to be place in body, but I can’t tell css to be placed just After Title for instance.
In the case you’re right regarding Title position importance vs Google then it is not a problem.
In the case you’re wrong, it would be an enhancement.
As final statement I could argue that no one could know the Google strategy regarding head analyse (how much code from <head> to </html> is it necessary to determine the duplicate content, and so on) then It would be great to said insert your registered js script and css Before or after an Html Tag.
The web article you pointed is of 2003. Things could also change (example meta keywords has less importance now)