A good page title will describe a good web page

A good web page title will ask or answer a good question

Good pages titles describe web page information

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Why is a title important?

How important is a page title to a good search result? How to write a good page title?

Good page titles are important to every web page on every web site on the WWW. This html page element is the most important, but often overlooked or misused by business web designers. The page title tells everyone what important information the page contains. In html, the <title> tag tells a computer's web browser to display the words placed within it, as the document title, usually at the top of your monitor screen. Good page titles provide interesting information about the web page. Having your company name in every page title is a big mistake that hurts your search engine results. Your company name should NEVER be the title of your HOME PAGE. Why?

We were once contacted by a company who had never found a customer with their website in five years! When we looked at the site, every page was titled with the company name only. Unless the visitor already knew about the company, they could never find their site with a search engine. Almost as bad, the only links on the home page, were to the terms of use and privacy policy pages. Guess how many pages that all the search engines had indexed? That's right, only (3) of the 60 pages on their site. That website was certainly not a good business investment!

What is a good page title?

A good page title is a good description of the page

from W3C

<title>: is the most important element of a quality web page.

The <title> element in HTML is designed to provide a short piece of text that should stand for the document in cases such as:

* window title bars
* bookmark lists
* result lists from search services

They go on to describe good titles:

A good page title uses good keywords

You will note from the example above, that putting a good link in the page heading helps to clarify the information contained in the page title. Putting important information into context helps create a user friendly website.

Good page titles help search engines rank web pages accurately

Page titles appear as a list, on the search engines results pages or SERPs for the search phrase that a user types into the search window. Search engines place a very high value on good page titles that accurately describe the page content, to rank web pages.

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Writing a good page title = good SEO

The page title that appears in the first place position on a search results page, will be visited first more than half the time. Understanding how much importance search engines place on page titles, you can see how critical good page titles are to good seo. We explain to new clients, that spending the time to tell us, the questions customers ask, is some of the most valuable time they can invest in getting a website. With this critical information, we can write page titles that match potential customer search questions.

How to write a good title page title!

The title page of a website is your home or index page. It should clearly describe what the entire website is about. Our title page is titled: How to get a website by a good seo business website designer. It describes what our entire website is about. Most poorly written business websites have every page titled with the company name. This is a very common page title mistake. Simply changing the page titles to accurately describe each web page, can produce amazing improvements in search results, new visitor statistics and increased sales. Leaving any untitled pages on your site, will not be a profitable decision either. Good business websites are written to provide good information from a customer's perspective, because your potential customer already knows how to search with a search engine.

Good page titles are also good link phrases

Since page titles appear on the search engines results pages, ensuring that your pages receive good placement, requires that you have good text links with the page title included, to each of your website's pages.

A good page title gets attention

When you scan a search results page, the page title that most closely appears to meet your search question, will likely be the one you click on. Although being ranked number one is important, having an interesting page title will often induce visitors to visit your site out of simple curiosity. Page titles are like storefront signs, the good ones get noticed.

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Good page titles help a web site get good search results

Some of the page titles used on our site include:

Please read: What is a website? and How to get a good website, before you simply focus on what a website costs.

As you visit each page, check the search engine results by clicking on each search engine name at the bottom of the page. You can read a more complete list of page titles on our page titled What is a good sitemap? Each time we edit or add new information to a page, we check the page title to determine if it still best describes the page. If not, we change it. This is a very important component of optimizing a web page.

The worst page titles on the web?

• untitled, there are millions of pages where the page author didn't bother to even write a page title! That's certainly not how to write a good web page.
• Who we are, do you know that Yahoo alone lists millions of pages titled who we are?
• What we do. Why would anyone want to know, if you don't tell them what the page is about?
• How to find us, if we don't even know who you are or what you do, why would we want to?
• Did you know?, of course not. That's why I'm asking a question!
• Contact us, returns BILLIONS of PAGES on Yahoo alone! See what a page title means to search engines?

Worse than boring, they don't tell anyone what the web page is about on a search engine results page.

Almost as bad, are the cute page titles, that are supposed to get your attention like a headline in a newspaper. We once had a flooring company ask for advice on how to improve their website search results. They said the were already getting hundreds of visitors each month and their most visited page was titled How to get laid in (city name). But nobody called! When we asked why anyone looking for flooring would use that title as a search phrase, they were stuck for an answer. What kind of people did they think were visiting that page, anyway? Another example of simply believing that a web site is advertising.

A good page title helps your customers find the right web site!

For people with disabilities, good page titles help. They often need to spend extra time and effort just to visit web sites. Properly titled pages help find the right information site more easily. Making page titles user friendly, can pay big dividends in creating good accessibility. In turn, accessible websites find more customers. Important meta tags, properly used, will also improve every user's experience. Usability is the key to a successful business website.

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