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Page Titles using keywords naturally

  • 14-08-2008 10:02AM
    #1
    monkey24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭


    hey,

    Just a quick question on how Google treats keywords in Page Titles. Probably a silly one. For example if trying to rank for Football News, Football Fashion, using a page title such as "Get the latest football news & fashion". Will google only count "football news" as a keyword or will it put any weight on "football fashion" i.e. even though a modifer is used between them.

    Cheers


Comments

  • #2
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Iv seen a huge amount of websites misusing the title tag and treating it as a keyword tag. Not sure how sucesfull it is, or how Google treats it tho. Its not covered any SEO handbook iv ever came across!


  • #3
    monkey24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭monkey24


    Yeah its an interesting one. I like the thought of having a call to action in the Page Title including one or two keywords rather than just generically listing 5 keywords with a , or | between them.
    Sully wrote: »
    Iv seen a huge amount of websites misusing the title tag and treating it as a keyword tag. Not sure how sucesfull it is, or how Google treats it tho. Its not covered any SEO handbook iv ever came across!


  • #4
    Bananna man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Bananna man


    Google will recognize the two phrases you are mentioning especially if it finds content relating to the two separate phrases on your site. This will however dilute the effectiveness of both slightly. Usually i try to keep my title tags short and sweet without having filler English such as "Get the latest" and just plonk in the keyword, which seems to work well. The more text you have the more filtered it becomes, although it's possible that google pays little attention to superlatives such as "latest" anyway.


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