Does a title help in ranking?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by iwihosting, Dec 18, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi guys,

    I am new to SEO Services. Can anyone explain how does a title of blog, article or PR helps in SEO ? :confused:
     
    iwihosting, Dec 18, 2008 IP
  2. dbbinod

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    A search engine crawler is always on the lookout for keywords. Words or phrases that are unique and that also stand out in a title, giving the description of the product, service or the purpose & theme of your webpage. The crawler then identifies whether the text of the title is important enough to be returned as search result for a user's query. Hence, it is imperative that you add keywords and important key-phrases to your page titles, so as to make them more attractive to the search engine crawlers. This in turn will ensure higher rankings with quicker and more frequent displays of your webpage. However, one very important point to remember is that, you should not go overboard and stuff your entire title with keywords. Another crucial point to remember is that, you should keep the character strength of your title at or below 65 characters. A maximum of three keywords is more than satisfactory and enough for the crawlers to index and publish your website in the search results at respectable positions.
     
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  3. stechweb

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    In SEO basics, we consider title words as very important. you can separate words using "-". read basic SEO guides first.
     
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    Yeah, the title in very important. As possible, try to have only your keywords in you title
     
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  5. Journey

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    Title tag is one of the most significant factors in an on-page optimization. Search engines gives more value on this. The title tag gives the search engine a good indication as to what your page is all about. It's best to include your targeted keywords in your title tag.

    Aside from this, having eye-catchy titles in blogs or articles will also attract more visitors to explore its content.
     
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  6. YSeo

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    Page Title is very important. Basically, it tells google what's your page about. along with other factors , that's how you get ranked.
     
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  7. Rinkle HT

    Rinkle HT Banned

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    Yes of course. For ranking and increase traffic one of the most significant role of Title Tag at anywhere like as in website, blog and articles also
     
    Rinkle HT, Dec 18, 2008 IP
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    seoexpert2009 Banned

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    Titles are important since search engines find and classify the relevancy of your site based on these link titles (also called anchor text) as they appear in the directories. Therefore titles can be used to target specific words or search terms, which will consequently help in getting your web site to rank high for those terms on the search engines.
    E.g., if you have a site about catering, instead of giving your company name as the title you can use words such as "catering", "home delivery" etc. This is how you can use your titles to your advantage.

    Also remember, the title should be meaningful & not read like a string of words. :)
     
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    On-page stuffs are important to get high ranking in search results. Title tag is one of those stuffs, and some even say that it is the most important part. Just make sure you don't stuff keywords and only include relevant keywords.
     
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    it's all important, title, header, keywords, but i strongly suggest not to spam keywords, otherwise, your parciular page may be categorized as spam page...

    good luck with SEO
     
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    Title is SEO basic and very important to our site..your keyword must be in the title
     
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    Title very important and useful as well in ranking need to use cleverly...
     
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    Firstly Welcome to SEO! :)
    Your question, yes the title is very important. Used with the proper <h1/2> tags, you can gain alot of SEO benefits from it! I suggest you read through this, you just might find it helpful :)
     
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    title are extremely important. In fact, you may have noticed that the adsense bot, until it finds the time to crawl a page properly, generally just takes the title as verbatim. The main bots also look to it for a general idea on what to expect. A title wildly out of sync with content is dangerous - it could be interpreted as a signal that the page may be spammy. So don't create a page titled 'bunnies and how to look after them' then fill the page with v1@gr4 ads
     
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    title is important but make sales oriented one so people understand
     
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    page title is very important. the first thing seen by google on your page is the title only and from that it gets idea about the topics or keywords included in the page.
     
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    Title Tag is important one in seo ====
     
    Willsmith86, Dec 19, 2008 IP