diff --git a/tests/spiders.py b/tests/spiders.py
index c47f2bd2b..43cdcaef3 100644
--- a/tests/spiders.py
+++ b/tests/spiders.py
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ class CrawlSpiderWithParseMethod(MockServerSpider, CrawlSpider):
     async def start(self):
         test_body = b"""
         <html>
-            <head><title>Page title<title></head>
+            <head><title>Page title</title></head>
             <body>
                 <p><a href="/status?n=200">Item 200</a></p>  <!-- callback -->
                 <p><a href="/status?n=201">Item 201</a></p>  <!-- callback -->
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ class CrawlSpiderWithErrback(CrawlSpiderWithParseMethod):
     async def start(self):
         test_body = b"""
         <html>
-            <head><title>Page title<title></head>
+            <head><title>Page title</title></head>
             <body>
                 <p><a href="/status?n=200">Item 200</a></p>  <!-- callback -->
                 <p><a href="/status?n=201">Item 201</a></p>  <!-- callback -->
diff --git a/tests/test_linkextractors.py b/tests/test_linkextractors.py
index 1bff369af..15d358d2a 100644
--- a/tests/test_linkextractors.py
+++ b/tests/test_linkextractors.py
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ class Base:
         def test_nofollow(self):
             """Test the extractor's behaviour for links with rel='nofollow'"""
 
-            html = b"""<html><head><title>Page title<title>
+            html = b"""<html><head><title>Page title</title></head>
             <body>
             <div class='links'>
             <p><a href="/about.html">About us</a></p>
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ class Base:
 
         def test_restrict_xpaths_encoding(self):
             """Test restrict_xpaths with encodings"""
-            html = b"""<html><head><title>Page title<title>
+            html = b"""<html><head><title>Page title</title></head>
             <body><p><a href="item/12.html">Item 12</a></p>
             <div class='links'>
             <p><a href="/about.html">About us\xa3</a></p>
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ class Base:
             ]
 
         def test_base_url_with_restrict_xpaths(self):
-            html = b"""<html><head><title>Page title<title><base href="http://otherdomain.com/base/" />
+            html = b"""<html><head><title>Page title</title><base href="http://otherdomain.com/base/" /></head>
             <body><p><a href="item/12.html">Item 12</a></p>
             </body></html>"""
             response = HtmlResponse("http://example.org/somepage/index.html", body=html)
diff --git a/tests/test_spider.py b/tests/test_spider.py
index 4e4a99638..dceb9f91d 100644
--- a/tests/test_spider.py
+++ b/tests/test_spider.py
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ class TestCSVFeedSpider(TestSpider):
 
 
 class TestCrawlSpider(TestSpider):
-    test_body = b"""<html><head><title>Page title<title>
+    test_body = b"""<html><head><title>Page title</title></head>
     <body>
     <p><a href="item/12.html">Item 12</a></p>
     <div class='links'>
