extract title using ImportXML in google spreadsheets - xpath

I am trying to extract the title of http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/56085 in google spreadsheets using =importxml("http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/56085","//title"). I am getting an error.
What am I doing wrong?
Thx
=importxml(Url,"//title/text()") worked on most of the links except the following three....anyideas?
Example1
Example2
Example3

It should be //head/title or to be exact =IMPORTXML("http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/56085", "//head/title")

I found the solution:
//td/#title

All 4 of your links worked completely fine in my sheets with this:
=importxml("url","//title")
This is the same formula you have listed in your questions so I'm not quite sure what the problem is? What kind of an error did you get?

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"//div[#class='pbSubsection']//td[#class='data2Col']/text()"
yields
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'teamviewer 12345 \r',
'\r',
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