There is one place on a web page where your keywords MUST be present, and that
is in the page title, which is everything between the
section of a page. The page title (not to be confused with the heading for a page) is
what is displayed in the title bar of your browser window, and is also what is
displayed when you bookmark a page or add it to your browser Favorites.
Correct use of keywords in the title of every page of your website is extremely
important to Google – particularly for the home page. If you do nothing else to
optimize your site, remember to do this! Also note that the "Keywords" META
tag is ignored by Google. Concentrate your efforts on the title for each page,
making sure they contain the best keywords for the content of each page.
The title shouldn’t consist of much more than about 9 words or 60 characters, with
your keywords used at the very beginning of the title. Since Google is looking for
relevant keywords in the title, this means you should NOT include your company
name in the title unless your company name is so well known as to be a keyword in
it’s own right with instant name recognition – like Disney, Nike, or Yahoo. If you must
include your company name in the title, put it at the end. In addition, each page title
should be unique – don’t duplicate titles on pages.
If you remember only one sentence in this entire book – commit this one to memory:
Improper or nonexistent use of titles in web pages will keep more websites out
of top rankings on Google than any other factor except perhaps for a lack of
relevant content on a page or a lack of quality links from other websites that
point to your site.
The following table shows both the improper and proper use of titles on an example
website that sells house plans. You undoubtedly have seen numerous websites that
use “Home” as the title of their home page. Google may think these sites are about
homes!
Web page
Improper Title Proper Title
Home page “Home”
Contact page “Contact us”
“Unique house plans, home plans & home
designs”
“Contact us for questions about our house plans”
About page
Links page
“About us”
“Links”
“We are all about house plans”
“Links to more information about house plans”
As you can see, you should use relevant keywords in every title of every page of
your site.
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