Using Keywords In Page Titles
Written on October 25, 2007 by admin
Its really important use keywords in page titles. The “titles tag” is not the same of the “Meta tag”, and both have an important function. The text you will place between < title > and < /title > (with no spaces) will appear in the title bar of the browser when that page is showing. In some browsers will appear also the own name of it, like Mozilla Firefox, but it doesnt matter.
The text you insert in the title tag is an important factor in how the search engine can decide to classify your page. Also all major web crawlers will use your title tag as the title of your page in your listings, and you can see it when you use Stumble, which use as Title, the text you placed in the title tag.
If your website include more than one page, remember that each page need to be optimized, and is reccoment to use different titles for each page, all with at least one important keyword related to the page.
The words or phrases included in the title tag will let increase traffic via search engines, so be sure to insert prominent keywords and phrases.
One of the most common mistake is to place your business name or website name or product name in every title of every page. This is a for sure a waste of space, infact you could insert valuable keywords instead of your name that wont really bring you traffic(or probably it do just if your name is Bill Gates! j/k).
I totally agree with your points in this post..!!
I’m trying to apply it on my photoshop tutorials website..
Thanks a lot for sharing! Very useful tips.
I didn’t realize that search engines used the page’s title in it’s algorithm. I’m going to try to put some keywords in title tags on my pages. Thanks!
This is good advice and 6 months ago, I’d have said it was completely true. However, I’ve noticed recently that the ’snippets’ displayed by Google are generated from the page content rather than the title tag. Could be another change on the way!
thanks. it is a new for me.
Great post. Also dont forget to drop a few keywords in your H, H2….. tags
Good tip. If you want to maximise SEO for your website, you have to pick your words in page title carefully.
Great clarification between titles tag and meta tags. Thanks!