Comments on: Title Tags and the secret story of the hairy golf ball

By: Britney Spears Plumps My Pillow

Britney Spears Plumps My Pillow — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:52:26 +0000

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By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:18:35 +0000

Well you’re at 14 and 15 from my IP, you’re gettin there :)

Some good points there. The title tag is definitely important, and when you’re talking about people that don’t know the first thing about SEO, their title tags are sure to be untargeted so a title tweak would do them alot of good.

But, it’s always interesting to see how some pages with completely irrelevant title tags get the 1 spot. I guess it’s a testament to good off-page optimisation.

By: Jan from thrusites design

Jan from thrusites design — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:41:21 +0000

Well, title tag optimisation might be part of SEO, but isn’t natural title tag better anyway?

For example, I prefer title tags containing words which can be found within the content, title tags which are descriptive, but not misleading.

Always bear in mind that your title tag will be probably shown as a link in SERPs. So if you repeat 1 or 2 words just for SEO purposes, some people won’t visit your site in my opinion…

For example, title tag “rifle” isn’t very descriptive even if it moves the importance to 1 word only. “AK-47 Rifle” is more descriptive. But “Buy AK-47 | AK-47 Rifle | Visit our gun shop with AK-47 in stock” is misleading for sure.

By: Quinton

Quinton — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:36:15 +0000

Great post. It’s funny how important the title tag really is and how much traffic it can bring in just by tweaking a few things.

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Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:17:19 +0000

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By: corporate comedy magicians

corporate comedy magicians — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:49:42 +0000

I came here looking for hairy golf balls and all I find is this SEO stuff. What gives?

By: eyeflare.com

eyeflare.com — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:12:16 +0000

So, would it be better to have “Page title on site name” or “Page title” only?

Having a slow thought day about this stuff.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:56:36 +0000

I’d not previously considered that the state of my balls would have a direct influence on my search rankings but, since you’ve mentioned it, I have noticed an improvement ever since I had a back, sack and crack earlier this month.

And there was me thinking it was down to tweaking my titles…

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:50:37 +0000

You’re 2nd if you only select pages from the UK if that’s any consolation?

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:10:21 +0000

Alex, I love a good metaphor.

There are enough seo blogs around already so I like to give a different twist. Hopefully get people thinking in different ways. That’s the plan anyway.

By: Alex Goad

Alex Goad — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:51:47 +0000

Hey Lyndoman,

In a nutshell, 19th is pretty good considering how new your blog is and who the competition is…

As for the advice on balls, good stuff, but isn’t this blog about SEO?

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:28:01 +0000

Hi there,

For the Phoenixrealm SEO Blog I use the “Optimal Title” plugin.

It is worth checking out and can be found here:

http://elasticdog.com/2004/09/optimal-title/

Gary.