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<title>Free widgets, Daily online widgets, Widgets for teens</title>
Or should I change one or two of the "widgets" into synonyms for the keyword "widgets"? Will this hurt the ranking for the phrases or not?
Also, having three instances of "widgets" in the title, is this ok (if it honestly describes the site)?
What do you think?
Thanks!
[edited by: CWebguy at 7:46 pm (utc) on Sep. 5, 2007]
Each page should have a different title so you would be better having three separate pages each optimised for one phrase, e.g Free widgets page, Daily online widgets page and Widgets for teens page.
Can you elaborate please on it not being good SEO?
Also, is it ok to "list" keyword phrases in site title (main page title tag) like <title>keyword phrase 1, phrase 2, phrase 3</title> or will search engines see this as spam?
Thanks!
Yes, I have thought about this, but it seems like I would have to be adding "extra pages" that I wouldn't normally have on my site and may look weird to visitors (like what is the purpose of this page).
Having a page about each of the forms of widgets you offer is not weird but a perfectly acceptable practice.
People sometimes forget that the search engines index web pages as opposed to web sites. Every page you have on your site provides another opportunity to attract traffic.
People sometimes forget that the search engines index web pages as opposed to web sites. Every page you have on your site provides another opportunity to attract traffic.
People frequently forget that the purpose of a web site is for people, not for page rank nor search engines. The two are different.
I should urge you (vainly I know) not to lose track of purpose.
Matt
People sometimes forget that the search engines index web pages as opposed to web sites. Every page you have on your site provides another opportunity to attract traffic.
Yes, but correct me if I'm wrong. Unless you have direct inbound links to these pages, your main page should have better chance of ranking in search engines and drawing customers.
Problem is my main page hardly draws any traffic compared to other pages, so I wanted to do some optimization for it (previously I just had site name followed by a couple words after it).
[edited by: CWebguy at 7:34 pm (utc) on Sep. 6, 2007]
This is just a quick example of how it could be done, without knowing much about teens or the demographic sector at all.
<title>Domain.Com - Where Free, Cool and Crazy Widgets Live.</title>
Domain.Com because it has a branding effect. People read the domain name then, which makes an imprint in their little minds. You want them to think of your domain the second they think about widgets.
Conversation:
a) "Heeeey mate, how's what and whatever?
b) "so cool, you know and all"
- thinks about something to talk about they have in common.
a) "You found any cool new widgets?"
- thinks about it, remembers domain.com and mentions it
b) yah, at domain.com they had a few really...)
Remember, there are some General Rules and then there are THE Rules. ;)
