How to Write Web Page Titles to Enhance Your Site Exposure
by: Kempton Smith
A carefully-written title for your web page can enhance your
site exposure and attract more visitors. Here's how to write
an effective web page title.
What is a web page title?
In your web page HTML code, the page title (also called the
title element or just the title) is the text that is
enclosed by the opening and closing TITLE tags.
The title should be placed between the HEAD tags, ideally
just after the beginning HEAD tag and before the first META
tag.
The title is one of the most important elements of a web page for a variety of reasons.
*Most browsers will display your page with the title at
the top of the browser window.
*If visitors bookmark your page in their browsers, their
bookmark lists will show your page using just the title.
Many web page titles default to "Home Page." So if the
title of your web page is "Home Page", your visitors'
bookmark lists will contain a lot of "Home Page"
listings.
*Google and other search engines present the results of
a search by displaying page titles as links in the first
line of each query result. Search engines doesn't like
to display "Home Page" as the best they can do for a
user searching for "purple people eaters," for example.
*Most search engines will order the results of a search
engine query based on the relevancy of your page to the
keywords used for the query. One of the factors in
determining this relevancy is how closely your title
matches these keywords. If your small startup company
makes purple people eaters, don't give your home page
the title "Unknown Business, Inc." It's not relevant to
the search.
You can see that the title of your web page is highly
visible to others, and it can impact the search engine
ranking and visibility of your web page. It is therefore
worthwhile to spend some time carefully writing each page
title.
Practical tips for writing page titles.
Here are some practical tips you can use for crafting an
effective web page title.
*Start by thinking hard about how your potential
visitors will search for your site. What keywords or
keyword phrases will they use for a search engine query?
Use one or two of the most important keyword phrases for
your title. In our example, the home page title could be
"Purple People Eaters."
*Don't just use the same title for all your web site
pages. Your About page title could be "About Unknown
Business, Inc., Your Source for Purple People Eaters."
Your Order page title could be "How to Order Purple
People Eaters."
*Don't include your company name in the title unless it
is a commonly recognized name or the page is about your
company. Use the limited real estate in a title for
relevant keywords. You can include your company name in
the description META tag of your web page.
*Make sure the title does not exceed 66 characters.
Google will not display more than 66 characters of a
title in the search results page. Truncated titles
irritate search engine users.
*Don't use more than 7-10 words in your title.
*Be careful when using some web page generators or
editors. Many will either ignore the title or make up an
ineffective title like "your title goes here."
Summary.
Understand what the title element of a web page is, why it
is important, and follow these practical tips for writing
your web page titles. Your internet visibility will be
improved, you will improve your search engine ranking, and
you will get more visitors to your web site.
About The Author
Kempton Smith writes articles for internet businesses. For a free report on how to use articles to promote your product or service, visit http://article-promotion.blogspot.com. Copyright © 2005 by Kempton Smith. This article may be freely published provided you leave it intact.
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