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The Title Tag

<title>Your Title Goes Here</title>

The title tag is the first part of your page the search engine reads. It needs to define what the content of your page is so the search engines know what they have found. Your title tag needs to contain the primary keywords you are targeting and shouldn't be cluttered with useless words which have no value (such as and). Using words which don't need to be there or using words too many times will take weight away from your main keywords and devalue your ranking position.

The main keyword we want to target for SEOselfhelp.com is 'SEO Help'. Our secondary keywords are 'SEO Tutorial', 'SEO Guide', 'Search Engine Optimization' and 'Organic SEO'.

Here is a bad example of getting the most from the Title Tag

Bad Example: Search Engine Optimization, SEO Help and SEO Tutorial and SEO Guide - All for Organic SEO

Although all of our main keywords are used, the positioning of them, excess use of 'SEO' and useless words means this isn't optimized as well as it could be.

To fully understand this we need to see it as a search engine will. To do this lets use the example above and pretend someone has just searched for SEO Help which is our main keyword.

Search Engine Optimization, SEO Help and SEO Tutorial and SEO Guide - All for Organic SEO
What is good?
SEO Help is used once
SEO is used more than once
All our keywords are used
What is bad?
SEO Help is not the 1st keyword
SEO is used 4 times (3 times Max)
Too many non-valuable words

Now to get a good title, simply look at the bad points and change them!

SEO Help | Search Engine Optimization Help Tutorial Guide | Organic SEO
What was bad?
SEO Help was not the 1st keyword
SEO was used 4 times
Too many non-valuable words
What makes this good?
SEO Help is now in position 1
SEO Help is used 2 times
Main keywords combined with no excess

Things to remember:

  • Place your main keywords in position 1
  • Do not use keywords more than 2 times (you will only be penalized)
  • Condense your main keywords
  • Replace non-valuable words which take weight away from your main keywords with the character: |

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