Title, title tag or HTML title | SEO

by Iulian on June 28, 2009

Title, title tag or HTML title

The title is the most important part of a website. The title is supposed to tell the reader as well as the search engine what a page is about. It contains a brief description of the page and the most important keywords should be here. It’s good to know that each page should have a title and all titles must be unique. Example: <title> SEO Blog </ title>

 

The title should be placed in section <head> of the website and should not use excessive comma to separate words.

The title should contain a maximum of 65 characters (most of the search engines do not read more than 65 characters). Usually, the title should contain keywords which appear in the body of the document, which is required for maintaining the keywords’ density.

Try to avoid using titles like “Blank page”, “Home” or “Untitled”.

Title tag or html title

The title element is required in all HTML/XHTML documents and  defines a title in the browser toolbar,  provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites or/and displays a title for the page in search-engine results.

{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

Dirnov 06.30.09 at 4:38 am

Greatings, Not sure that this is true:), but thanks for a post.
Thanks

Belco 07.01.09 at 9:34 am

Re-using the title tag of each page as the H1 header tag can be valuable from both a keyword targeting standpoint and a user experience improvement. Users who go to a page from the SERPs will have the expectation of finding the title they clicked – deliver and you’ve fulfilled that obligation. Users will be more likely to stay on a page they’re reasonably certain fits their intended goal or query.

Flexy 07.05.09 at 10:34 am

I use Wordpress SEO Title Tag, is great for my blog :)

Eko 07.08.09 at 5:26 am

Title tag is a priority for SEO

Geo 07.20.09 at 12:28 am

I wonder if you put the title tag inside strong tags, if that will give you an extra push.

admin 07.20.09 at 9:50 am

Geo, the answer for title tag inside strong tags is no because “strong” is invalid in the “head” section of the document, and you would be downgraded for having invalid HTML

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