The title

The title is the phrase which will bring you traffic from the search engines. For example, if you search for “SEO Basics For Your Website” you’ll see that “SEO Basics For Your Website Part I” will come up as a result.

You should always aim for attractive titles. Don’t ever use immature titles such as “Bring traffic to your websites!!!!!” or “With these steps you will be the best search engine optimizer ever in the whole wide world”. The first has a bunch of unnecessary characters and the second one is obviously way too long (try to keep it below 50-60 letters).

The title should be unique on each page. Search engines love diversity and original content, it’s one of the main things you have to have in mind when optimizing a website. On my main page I have the following title “More Web Site Traffic at TimUkaj.Com”, but when you click on a specific post you’ll see that the title changes to “Post Title”.

Your title should always represent your content. If you write about furnitures, make sure you include furnitures in your title/headline. Don’t however use a specific word too many times in your content. Let it float naturally.

Thank’s to wordpress most bloggers don’t have to modify anything because most themes have dynamic titles. However, there’s a plugin for SEO purpose called SEO Title Tag you could download to get the best out of your titles. Just follow the instructions and you’re set to go.

Optimizing websites means putting big effort on small details.

Tim Ukaj is the web developer behind Tim Ukaj dot com. On his blog you you can find other related topics worth reading.