I've created an interactive and online SEO tool for optimizing title and meta description. How to use the optimization tool In this video you'll learn how the tool levrages Google's API to fetch results from their index, and find relevant keywords you should use in your title and meta description tag. As you can hear I'm not a native speaker, but I hope the video gives you an idea of how the tool works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NukaTB-UCRw http://seobin.org/ title and description optimization tool is the only thing on this domain. I read the forum guidelines and I think this thread complies with the rules, if not I'm very sorry. I want to be a member on this forum, so don't ban me for posting this tool. Why am I posting? Firstly, I'd love to have some feedback on the tool. It's still in beta so new features will be added. By getting some insightful feedback I hope to build a very useful tool. To create the tool I used PHP, JavaScript, jQuery and obviously HTML and CSS. I think it has come together pretty well. If you find any quirks, please let me know about them. Both questions and feedback is very much welcome
Interesting, but the first test I did flagged the site in question as having too many characters in the title, but all words appear visually in the title bar, so imho as long as all characters are visible that software flagging the title in question is er questionable. Hope that helps?
Hi and thank you very much for your feedback sir. I agree with you, but according to my research at SEOMoz' article: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/best-practices-for-title-tags Point 2 says: I set 66, just to be on the safe side. I'm not sure how Google determines whether or not to show more characters than that (if anyone does, please elaborate). Also remember there are other search engines than Google out there. In addition the W3 spec says max 64 characters for the title element here: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/TITLE.html
Hey SEOHow Personally I try to stick to whatever is able to be seen visually in the title bar and stick to three to four search phrases followed by the site or company name. Must say it has worked well for me Sir Perhaps it may be worth considering that count as usually this is OK so perhaps there is the possibilty "here" this could make your tool stand out from the crowd. I used a site with many page 1 rankings btw and not just some page 10 ranked site. Very interesting though as are you Sir!
PS Could be those other references are going by what Google displays whereas I am going by what is displayed in the title bar after a page is landed on.
Hello again. Ahhh, so thats what you meant about placing more characters in the title. Must admit I was a bit confused, hehe. Since you say that you've done it successfully I will try it out on one of my next projects. I haven't been using more characters because I've believed that longer titles will remove weight from the phrases I'm most eager to rank for. But using longer titles like "phrase one | phrase two | phrase thee | company name" might not be so dumb. I will definitely look into this matter.
Would be well worth a go and experimenting with SEOHow as I have never experienced a problem with this approach in search engines and you know what they say "build for visitors and not search engines" so you may well find those other references are taking a different approach and worrying more about the SE's displays rather than the sites/pages visitrs and what is in the title bar. Just keep it to character count that appears in the title bar and let us know how it pans out when you do try it please.
Yeah very true. I focus so much at making things SE friendly that I often forget about the visitor (not that people don't find my sites useful, but I think the sites could have been slightly better if SEO was not a concern, hehe). I hoped more people would test my tool and give me some feedback. I'm starting to think the fact that I was unable to make a clickable link might have played a role. People are lazy, haha.
Cool btw OP/SEOHow when I said you are also interesting - I meant it & if you built that you could be a useful contact - so if so please PM me as I would like to have you on hand and as a member of my own forum to Sir.