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Title Tag Tips
Today’s visibility tip is all about your title tags.Video Transcript: In terms of visibility, the title tag is one of the most important components of your web page. Yet, for whatever reason, I see sites every day that don’t take advantage of it. Too often I see sites with a title tag of just their site name or company - on every page of their site - or, even worse, a long, jumbled string of keywords. That’s not going to accomplish much beyond making your site look spammy and cheap.In terms of search engine optimization, the title tag is one of the most important aspects of your HTML page insofar as helping search spiders understand what your page is about.Beyond crawlers and spiders though, the title tag is also extremely important to the users of your site. That’s because the title tag is the text that will be displayed at the top of the browser window. it will also be the text displayed in the navigation tabs if you are using a browser that supports tabs like firefox. Either way, it’s an easy way you can help people navigate your site.One of the most common mistakes concerning title tags is just having one title for every page on your site. Every page on your site has a different focus or theme.. As such, you should have different tile tags for every one of these pages. Search engine spiders are coming to your site every day (hopefully) and their job is to figure out what your pages are about. If every page on your site is titled with just your business or domain name, you aren’t really telling them too much they don’t already know.Think about it this way, search engine results don’t point at sites as much as they do pages within a site. As such, it’s a lot more effective to individually target and title the pages within your site to maximize your exposure to the internet spiders and make it easy for them to distinguish the pages within your site from one another.Likewise, for your human users browsing thru your site wiith 10 tabs or windows open all over the...
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Date Found: April 10, 2009
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