diff --git a/src/shared/merge.js b/src/shared/merge.js
index fcbbe229..f0af9c35 100644
--- a/src/shared/merge.js
+++ b/src/shared/merge.js
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ export function arrayMerge({ component, tagIDKeyName, metaTemplateKeyName, conte
       return
     }
 
+    // if source specifies null as content then ignore both the target as the source
+    if (sourceItem[contentKeyName] === null || sourceItem.innerHTML === null) {
+      // remove current index from source array so its not concatenated to destination below
+      source.splice(sourceIndex, 1)
+      return
+    }
+
     // we now know that targetItem is a duplicate and we should ignore it in favor of sourceItem
     // now we only need to check if the target has a template to combine it with the source
     const targetTemplate = targetItem[metaTemplateKeyName]
diff --git a/test/getMetaInfo.test.js b/test/getMetaInfo.test.js
index d6ab3ec6..b496e853 100644
--- a/test/getMetaInfo.test.js
+++ b/test/getMetaInfo.test.js
@@ -671,4 +671,52 @@ describe('getMetaInfo', () => {
       __dangerouslyDisableSanitizersByTagID: {}
     })
   })
+
+  test('child can indicate to remove parent vmids', () => {
+    Vue.component('merge-child', {
+      render: h => h('div'),
+      metaInfo: {
+        title: 'Hi',
+        meta: [
+          {
+            vmid: 'og:title',
+            content: null
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    })
+
+    const component = new Vue({
+      metaInfo: {
+        title: 'Hello',
+        meta: [
+          {
+            vmid: 'og:title',
+            property: 'og:title',
+            content: 'Test title',
+            template: chunk => `${chunk} - My page`
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      el: document.createElement('div'),
+      render: h => h('div', null, [h('merge-child')])
+    })
+
+    expect(getMetaInfo(component)).toEqual({
+      title: 'Hi',
+      titleChunk: 'Hi',
+      titleTemplate: '%s',
+      htmlAttrs: {},
+      headAttrs: {},
+      bodyAttrs: {},
+      meta: [],
+      base: [],
+      link: [],
+      style: [],
+      script: [],
+      noscript: [],
+      __dangerouslyDisableSanitizers: [],
+      __dangerouslyDisableSanitizersByTagID: {}
+    })
+  })
 })