The Almighty Title Tag

You may have heard the importance of Meta Keyword tags – forget it if you are designing for Google, Yahoo, and Bing (Top Three Search Engines).  These search engines use the title tag  is where you know put your keywords.  Here are some excellent tips for keywords:

1. Use the Title  tag to place your keywords.  Make your keywords more specific than general.  You have a better chance of positioning higher with specific keywords than General in most search categories.

Example - Dreamweaver Training Marin instead of Dreamweaver Training

2.  Break up keyword groups with the pipe (| )

Example - Dreamweaver Training Marin | Dreamweaver Training Sonoma

3.  Make sure your keywords are well positioned in the Web page with the Title  tag. This will be address in
future blogs.

4. Don’t spam keywords in your Web pages.   One of the two ways you can spam is to place keywords in your Title  tag that isn’t found in text of the Web page.  The other is to use the same your Title  tag within many of your Web pages.  Make sure each Web page has its own unique Title tag.

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