How To Construct Page Titles For High Rankings V 2.0
June 3, 2011
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How To Construct Page Titles For High Rankings V 2.0
This is a rewrite of an old favorite of mine. It covers the basics of how I got into this business sorta.
We have learned, as many of you have the importance of creating effective Page Titles for your website. When talking to clients, potential clients, or individuals at business mixers this is how we explain Page Titles. We compare Page Titles to the “location, location, location” mantra of real estate. The Page Title is that important.
A lot has been written about the use of effective Keywords in page titles. Since Google allows up to 70 spaces for your title you should stay within this parameter. You can go longer and it will be indexed, but it will not appear in the SERP’s. If you’ve ever seen a title in the results that ended like this … then you know that the title went beyond the 70 character limit.
There is a very good reason why you should not go long. Around 45% or so of web searchers use the Page Title when choosing to click on a result. So if your keyword appears beyond the space limit it will be out of view. Out of sight often means that your effort has been wasted. Don’t get greedy and over optimize as it will work against you.
Also don’t include throw away words like and or the. Eliminate using symbols such as @,$,!, or & and also avoid using commas. We are going to take a look at the home page title from our old house cleaning website. This site launched an SEO career. It should become apparent why very soon. The Page Title reads:
Tucson House Home Cleaning Janitorial Service Office Business
And these are some of the possible combination of Keywords that include the Geo-targeted keyword Tucson.
Tucson Cleaning Service
Tucson House Cleaning
Tucson House Cleaning Service
Tucson Home Cleaning
Tucson Home Cleaning Service
Tucson Janitorial
Tucson Janitorial Service
Tucson Janitorial Cleaning Service
Tucson Office Cleaning
Tucson Office Cleaning Service
Tucson Business Cleaning
Tucson Business Cleaning Service
So this gives us a total of 12 Keyword phrases in the title.
This is how I ruled the SERP’s in Tucson for our cleaning service website. It ranked as many as 33 times on the first page of Google. Did I say that we closed that business and now exclusively provide web services. Sure these are niche markets that have very few searches every day or month. That’s why a local business or niche website must target long tail keywords. You must target as many possible keyword phrases related to your business as possible.
I have had many SEO professionals berate me for my niche approach to SEO. They always say “Well, that keyword doesn’t get many searches.” I counter it does matter because I rank well for the services that I offer and in the markets where I offer them. Some people have a hard time acknowledging others who are successful in their field of business.
The real beauty of page titles is getting two pages indexed on the first page of the Google results. This can be easily done if you target the same keyword phrase on two pages. Just to a Google search for Tucson SEO or Tucson SEO Solutions and you will see what I mean. Just make minor changes in the titles and you’ll be OK. Never, I mean never use duplicate page titles.
Remember never repeat the same word twice in your page titles it is a total waste. Strangely, I see SEO’ers doing this mistake all the time. It amazes me when I check out some of my competitors and I see some glaring problems with execution. I recently discovered that one of my direct competitors here in Tucson does not use the ALT tag on their own site. It makes me wonder how much more that they are missing!
Update 05 /30/2011: I have learned over time that it is better to express your keyword phrases using the location or city last. If I was starting my SEO business today I would have acquired the domain name SEO Tucson. The reason being people search by city or location often as a second thought.
People will usually just search for SEO. Then if that didn’t work they will search for SEO Tucson. This has become more important since Google implemented Places Search. It will now provide results based on your ip address making the location information less important.
If you are searching for many services such as carpet cleaning Google will often provide mostly local results automatically. This is not true for all searches but many of them.
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2 Responses to “How To Construct Page Titles For High Rankings V 2.0”
For start when I develop my site I start from making Semantic Core of a site 1. Three types Of Title 2. Keywords from google Adwords 3. Title for main Page 4. Description to Title of main page 5. Description of Main Subject of A Site. Then the site is ready for advertising.
It is really a Very informative post specially for those who are overlooking the importance of On Page Optimization. I was really looking to get my site’s at-least two pages in ranking for one keyword and now I know How to do it thanks a lot :)
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