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Content for the meta title tags

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by palimadra, Mar 25, 2010.

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    I have noticed on some sites the meta title tag is a group of keywords.

    I feel that the title tag should be a statement which should contain some keywords and not just comma seperated keywords.

    I believe using comma seperated keywords in the meta title tag would be treated as spam by most search engines. Is that correct?

    Please share your thoughts on the same and I would be greatful.


    thanks and regads,

    Pali Madra
     
    palimadra, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  2. smsinhindi

    smsinhindi Peon

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    Actually Meta description should be a small description about your webpage which should be ideally 160 charactor but many use comma separated keywords in meta description and its work fine for them.
     
    smsinhindi, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  3. unna

    unna Well-Known Member

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    Title tag is one of the most important Meta. So use your best keywords in these tags.
     
    unna, Mar 25, 2010 IP
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    Sxperm Notable Member

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    Title tag is the most important SEO on-page factor for now. You should not spam your title with a bunch of keywords. You should write title for both human and seo purpose. If you have to put multiple keywords you should got them separated by | and not comma (,). Please be noted - the title tag should be made carefully. Each change could make your site ranking down like a rock for a period of time. If you carefully crafted it you onw't regret it later.

    Meta description has some little effect in SEO for now. However, this tag should be compelled for people instead of bot because the data in this tag will be used to display in your site search results, otherwise bots will use content as description instead.
     
    Sxperm, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  5. sherrylinx

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    Yes you are absolutely correct. Title tag should not be just stuffing of keywords. It should be like a sentence with keywords. Keyword stuffing is counted to be as spam.
     
    sherrylinx, Mar 28, 2010 IP
  6. jj1

    jj1 Active Member

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    I put keywords with no padding into title tag (occasionally just | to separate two strings)and use meta description tag for a sentence or two that weaves the keywords in but reads well to humans.
     
    jj1, Mar 28, 2010 IP
  7. social-media

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    The <title> should specify what the page is about... However, it's not a "meta tag". It's its own element. Meta tags (or more appropriately meta elements) begin with "<meta ". If it doesn't start w/ "<meta " then it's not a meta tag/element. People seem to incorrectly call it a meta tag because <title> also apears in the <head> of the HTML document. But there are LOTS of elements that can appear in the <head>. People don't call <link> a meta element... they shouldn't call <title> a meta element either.

    If you want your page to rank for some "statement" then continue to put statements in your <title>. It's your site, so do what you want. However, IMO your are exponentially better off from an SEO perspective by specifying a single keyword phrase (maybe 2 or 3 if they are almost identical and related to the exact same topic). Within the <title>, <h1>, and other individual elements that are considered ranking factors, keyword density is very important. They also look at the words closer to the beginning of those elements as more important than words near the end of the element. By using a sentence you are adding a bunch of "fluff" words that are actually hurting your ability to rank for your page's targeted keyword phrase...

    And the search engines to NOT see hyphen or comma separated phrases in <title> as spam unless you have LOTS of them in the <title> which might be seen as keyword stuffing. Otherwise 99.9% of the pages on the web would be penalized.
     
    Last edited: Mar 28, 2010
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  8. asbharmal

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    well the content used in the title should be very specific to the content written in the site so choose proper title which when crawled increases the ranking of the word
     
    asbharmal, Mar 28, 2010 IP
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    Yes title tag is more important then any other meta.....
     
    lucygray, Mar 28, 2010 IP
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    psharma Prominent Member

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    Advanced search engines like google can easily catch those tricky descriptions. So they simply do not give of advantage of those keywords.
     
    psharma, Mar 29, 2010 IP
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    #11
    Basically i am totally agree with you upon the statement not to use comma separated keywords in the title meta tags. It is on of the most important and crucial area of the website.
    Try to use one or two most crucial keywords in the title meta tags.
     
    james.parker, Mar 29, 2010 IP
  12. seo555

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    I'm agree with him
     
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  13. Rituja

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    #13
    Yes this is correct,
    But this spaming problem will occurred, when you using above 10words in Title-Tag.
    When you creating Title-Tag use 2 to 3 keywords only with separated commas.
    Why I am telling you put comma after Every keyword,
    because when Google spider will visit your website that time Google Robots will not confuse to knowing priority keywords your website.

     
    Rituja, Mar 29, 2010 IP
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    Title is important because visitors will come to your website by reading your site title which will be displayed in the search results. But now people write title for search engine and not for visitors and even ranking better without any meaningful title and description. Nice topic and search engine needs to strict on this title abuse....
     
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  15. DoA

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    A page's TITLE tags (<title>) are the most important onpage element.

    The meta title tag is a seperate entity and is used by some sites (including Facebook) as the information snippet.

    You may use both without penalty in your pages.

    I suggest you read this blog post about Title Tags Explained


    I'd say it increases the ranking of the page not word, but yes correct.

    Wrong.
     
    DoA, Mar 29, 2010 IP
  16. fanofchopin

    fanofchopin Well-Known Member

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    #16
    Yes, you should describe the title, so it's easily understood both by human and computer.
    Don't stuff it with keyword. Try to use title tags as you want open a new store in real world.
    Try it is easy to read and remember for human.
     
    fanofchopin, Mar 29, 2010 IP