Title and Description

[Pico_Train]

How good or important or bad is it to have Titles and Descriptions pretty much the same?

[tedster]

As a general rule, meta decriptions should be a good bit longer than the title element in my experience. However, they both very naturally will cover the same general area.

If you're generating pages from a database, it's worth the extra effort to add a meta description field and give it some serious attention. The meta description is being used a lot more these days, and this gives you the opportunity to represent your page very well and draw the click more effectively.

That said, I am having some good results recently with shorter than [my] normal meta descriptions -- however they are still longer than the page title and have some added detail.

[Pico_Train]

OK, thanks Tedster. Good and useful points. I'll put that little task on the list of things to do. 130 pages to go over.

I can feel procrastination kicking in...

[bts111]

A well written title and description will always improve your conversion rate.

[webdude]

Good discussion on description tags...

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[Murdoch]

I always like to make my Title and Description tags just short of the truncate maximum (66 for Title, 154 or so for Description) for Google. Call me crazy but I hate the ellipsis ... It just seems sloppy to me. I guess unless the beginning of the description is so enthralling that users click on your link just to see the rest of it (albeit unknown to them they never actually see the description tag on the actual web page). All of this IMHO.

[kevinpate]

> 130 pages to go over
a mere five pages a day, then on to something else each day so you don't feel swamped or grow to hate it. You're done with the chore inside the month and still have plenty of time to enjoy the weekends (enjoying the weekend comes highly recommended by 4 outta 5 who try it)

[Pico_Train]

Thanks Kevinpate.

Thing is the day job takes a lot of time out of that day...and I have few similar things to do but I am doing 5 of day of one of the tasks and on to the next one. That's the best approach.

Cheers.

I tried smoking weekend once and I liked it so much, I started doing it every 5 days.