Title Tags and Meta Tags

Title Tag

Title tag is the most important text on a single webpage when it comes to search engine optimization.

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To achieve good ranking in the search engines it is extremely imoprtant to write good and unique title tags for every single page on your website. The words put in the title tag must be very carefully selected becasue they bring great value for the search engine robots.

Please, read through the summary below for some of the most important practical guidelines that you should consider and utilize when writing the title tags for your website:


  Check Mark   Start the title tag with the most important keywords.

  Check Mark   Try to keep the content of the title tag for less than 65 characters.

  Check Mark   Use "call-to-action" method to provoke internet users to click on your title.

  Check Mark   Branding names are usually mentioned at the end or not at all.

  Check Mark   Besides using keywords, a title tag must be compelling enough to click on.

  Check Mark   writing style in the title tag depends on competition and goals.

Keywords Meta Tag

Keywords meta tag should be used along with every other legitimate, acceptable SEO techniques.

The first words in the keywords meta tag are assumed to be given more weight, so these are the most important. Usually, you can begin by putting the keywords you used in the title tag of your page in the meta keywords tag. Then, you can go through each paragraph of text on the page and take any important word or phrase that might be used in and copy and paste it in the keywords meta tag.

Never insert the same word twice in a row in the keywords meta tag. You can use the same word in different phrases, but never use that word more than three or four times within the meta keywords tag, even if you are using different variations of it.

Description Meta Tag

Description tags represent the general description of what is contained in your webpage.

Search engines that support meta tags will often display the description meta tag along with the corresponding title in their results. Search engines will often capture the entire meta tag of your description field, but webmasters should bear in mind that when a search engine displays the results to a user, the space is limited, usually under 20 words which you can use to grab the attention of a user.

When creating description meta tags webmasters should make the first sentence of their description field to capture the attention of the internet user and use the rest of the description tag to elaborate further.