I have been sick all week with strep throat, and it has sucked big balls. I still dont feel 100% better but I am filling a little better since I got some antibiotics. Anyways, here is a little SEO tip for ya. I dont feel like writing too much right now.
I switched all of my sites over from “Webpage Blah - Website” to simply “Webpage blah” about 2 months ago. Since then I have increased traffic on all of my websites. Having just the websites page listed in the title tag has increased my SERPs rankings in google and yahoo. To tell you the truth I’m not 100% sure why that would increase my rankings, maybe has something to do with dublicate title tags?
It has also increased my traffic because it seems to get a better CTR on google search pages. People seem to click the website in Google SERPs when it just has what they are looking for and dosen’t include the website title.
I have also realized that keeping the title tag as simple as you can will increase your rankings for longtailed keywords. The days of putting as many keywords in your title tag as you can fit, such as “Emo layouts - Girly Emo Layouts, Boy Emo Layouts, Onemore emo keyword” is less effective as “Emo Layouts for your myspace profile”. With that last title tag it would look like this “Emo Layouts for your myspace profile” when searching for “Emo myspace layouts”. Looking much better then “Emo Myspace Layouts, Emo Layouts For Myspace, Myspace Emo Layouts”
Example - Which one would you click on?
So with my own tests over the last few months I have concluded that:
1. Keep your title tag to the point.
2. Dont put your website in your title tag.
Everyone knows that the title tag is a huge part of the on-site SEO. So does anyone else have any tips on the title tag? Let us know in the comments.
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Make sense. Thanks alot
Holy crap that was fast
Good SEO tip. I’ve been meaning to do some experiments with the title tags on my websites, and seeing your results is a good start. I like the example as well.
-George
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If your website title includes one or more keywords then it can be useful to leave it there of course, when writing page titles I often keep in mind that I have a keywordy website name that’s going to come in at the end…I’m able to write quite short, punchy titles because I know I’ve got that keyword website title to complement them - of course “Jon Waraas” isn’t going to help you much there, unless your’e thinking about branding.
exactly my thought process. With certain sites I would think branding would be an important factor in what a user would click. Ive been trying write custom meta descriptions for pages. Has anyone tried using phrases like “Click here” or “Check it out here” or something along those lines in meta descriptions? How do you think that would affect visitors?
It makes sense: Less reading = less work for the user to find you. And I DID look straight down at your link for the example.
That’s why I subscribe, really. You do the experimentation. Others benefit.
Readability is important for the guy looking for the information. Makes sense that the easiest-read result closest to the top will get the most clicks.
Have you been finding that you’re losing rank when people search for the name of your site or does having the name in the domain compensate for that?
My site hasn’t dropped at all for ranking for my name. I make sure that the homepage has the name of my website for that reason.
When you changed titles, then what about rankings on those pages in SERPS? Did ranking temporarily change or not ?
I noticed this too.
I was using an SEO plugin on my blog but didn’t bother tweaking it much when i installed it so it put the blog title in by default.
After I went in and did some tweaks, including removing the blog title from post titles, my post are ranking a lot better all of a sudden :).