Monday, September 1, 2008

SEO Tips: Choose the Right Keywords in Your Website Title

By Ricardo d Argence


The title of a website is of high importance and many people overlook their website's title. People will only look at websites that contain something that pops out at them, keep that in mind when coming up with a title .

The title is what brings visitors to your site and indicates to them exactly what you offer. The title should be optimized for search engines, as it will increase your rank and maximize your position in searches. You need to take time and consider the title in all its entirety. Whilst ensuring that the headline informs possible customers about your services it is important t make it Web friendly so that it can be picked up by search engines.

When creating a website, you shouldn't give it a title of just your company name, since this will not entice people to click on the website, or give information about what you can offer them. Take for instance if you're looking for discounted pet food and you come across a site called Joe's pet shop, chances are you won't click on that website. A website that includes in its name discountedpetfoods, is one you would click on as it describes the products you are searching for.

When picking the title for your website you want to keep in mind that you should use relevant keywords. Keywords are the words that are used in when someone does a search with a search engine. For instance if your looking for discounted dog food, you're not going to type in Joe's pet shop to do your search. The key word for that would be, discounted dog food.

You'll increase your search engines rankings if you take the important step of including keywords in the beginning of your title. Some people even consider putting in the main keyword twice. That can be a little tricky to do as you don't want to sound redundant but it is possible to do it. The top reduced dog food on the internet is discounted dog food. Though each key word appears twice in there, it actually comes out as a statement than repetitious.

Make sure that you have a catchy title that will get people to want to see what your about. The less persuasive your title is the less traffic you will have. You must try to communicate the gist of your message in no more than sixty-five characters. Search engines generally have a limit on the length of the title that shows in their search engine results. Google only shows the starting 60 to 66 letters so this is why it is necessary to be sure your most important statement takes up as small an area as it can.

Try to keep your secondary keywords out of your title. These can be used on your main page with ease so save your title for what is really important. Try to keep the website title short but to the point. You don't want to over stuff it with repeated keywords, making is sound plumped up and desperate.

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