What is a good page title?

A good web site has no session time limit and is accessible to people with disabilities. An assistive technology, user friendly web site.

Is a page title important?

A good web page title will ask, or answer a question

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Good pages titles describe web page information content

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Why is a good page title important?

How important is a page title to a good search result? How to write a good page title?

Good page titles are important to every web page on every web site on the WWW. This html page element is the most important, but often overlooked or misused by business web designers. The page title tells everyone what important information the page contains. In html, the <title> tag tells a computer's web browser to display the words placed within it, as the document title, usually at the top of your monitor screen. Good page titles provide interesting information about the web page. Having your company name in every page title is a mistake that hurts your search engine results. Your company name should NEVER be the title of your HOME PAGE.

What is a good page title?

**A good page title is a good description** of the page

from W3C

<title>: is the most important element of a quality web page.

The <title> element in HTML is designed to provide a short piece of text that should stand for the document in cases such as:

* window title bars
* bookmark lists
* result lists from search services

They go on to describe high quality page titles:

A good title

So take care to give your page a good title:

not too short

"Section One" won't help much when it shows up in a search results list. Section one of what?.

Better: <title>Section One of the Modern Music Guide</title> or even better <title>Time Frame (the Modern Music Guide, Section 1)</title> not too long

Because only 60 to 80 characters are displayed in many window titles, menus, etc.; you can give a more detailed/pleasant title in the top level heading of your document, e.g. <h1>Section One: When has the Modern Time Commenced, Musicwise?</h1> (with a link to the whole Modern Music Guide for context).

A good page title uses good keywords

You will note from the example above, that putting a good link in the page heading helps to clarify the information contained in the page title. Putting important information into context helps create a user friendly website.

Good page titles help search engines rank web pages accurately

Page titles appear on the search engines results pages or SERPs for the search phrase that a user types into the search window. Search engines place a very high value on good page titles that accurately describe the page content, to rank web pages.

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Good page titles don't include ourcompany.com!

Most poorly written business websites have every page titled with the company name. This is a very common page title mistake on many business web sites. Simply changing the page titles to accurately describe each page, can produce amazing improvements in search engine ranking results, new visitor statistics and increased sales. Untitled pages are not very profitable either. Good business web sites are written to provide good information from a customer's perspective. Your potential customers know how to search with a search engine.

Good page titles are also good link text phrases

Since page titles appear on the search engines results pages, ensuring that your pages receive good placement, requires that you have good text links, with the page title text included, to each of your sites pages.

A good page title gets attention

When you scan a search results page, the page title that most closely appears to meet your search question, will likely be the one you click on. Although being ranked number one is important, having an interesting page title will often induce visitors to visit your site out of simple curiosity. Page titles are like storefront signs, the good ones get noticed.

Writing a good page title = good SEO

The page title that appears in the first place position on a search results page, will be visited first more than half the time. Understanding how much importance search engines place on page titles, you can understand how critical good page titles are to good seo. We explain to new clients, that spending the time to tell us, the questions customers ask, is some of the most valuable time they can invest in a business web site design. With this critical information, we can write page titles that match potential customer search phrases.

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Good page titles get good search results

Some page titles used on our site include:

Please read: What is a website?, before you simply focus on what a website costs.

As you visit each page, check the search engine results by clicking on each search engine name at the bottom of the page. You can read a more complete list of page titles on our good site map page. Each time we edit or add new information to a page, we analize the title to determine if it still best describes the page. If not, we change it. This is a very important component of optimizing a web page.

The worst page titles?

untitled, there are millions of pages where the page author forgot to even write a page title! That's certainly not how to write a good web page.
Who we are, do you know that Yahoo alone, lists millions of pages titled who we are?
What we do. Why would anyone want to know, if you don't tell them what the page is about?
How to find us, if we don't even know who you are, or what you do, why would we want to?
Contact us, returns BILLIONS of PAGES on Yahoo! See the value of a good page title now?

Worse than boring, they don't tell anyone what the web page is about on a search engine results page.

A good page title helps your customers find the right web site!

For people with disabilities, good page titles help. They often need to spend extra time and effort just to visit web sites. Properly titled pages help find the right information site more easily. Making page titles user friendly, can pay big dividends in creating good accessibility. In turn, accessible websites produce more customers. Important meta tags, properly used, will also improve every user's experience. Usability is the key to a successful website.

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Internet search for more page titling information

Please note: Google does not permit direct link searches from non-exclusive business sites and so they are not included on the search engine list. Please search Google directly at www.google.com

Search multiple search engines: yahoo . yahoo.ca . msn . msn.ca . alta vista . ask by pressing each search engine name.