Title and keywords

[malcolmcroucher]

I busy developing a site and was wondering how to do the correct title tag.

currently I have a generic term in the title tag and then the keyword

<title> Red Widget ¦ ding dongs </title>

I am trying to use the keyword red widget for my entire site and the specificaly do my page for Ding dong.

Would this be a problem ?

My pages are still under construction.

Regards

Malcolm

[Monalisa]

Hello Malcolm,

First Malcolm let me tell you the advantage of using meta tags on a website...The meta tags help Google Bot or any search engine bot to list your website on the search engines for the most appropriate keywords....

So, If you have more than 1 page on your website, then why not utilize different pages for different set of keywords...than using a generic keyword...

In this way...you can get, not only the Homepage, but also other inner pages, to rank on search engines and that too for a wide variety of Keywords...:)

So Malcolm...Go ahead and do some analysis of keywords...and place them on the meta tags for different pages of your website...:)

Best of Luck!

Regards
Monalisa

[rocknbil]

The meta tags help Google Bot or any search engine bot to list your website on the search engines for the most appropriate keywords....

A caution here - not ALL meta tags are "helpful." The keyword meta tag is so grossly abused it is often ignored by search engines. This does not mean "don't use it," it means, it's not as important as you think, so don't put as much effort into it. Put your effort into content, this is where the keywords will make a difference.

The Description meta tag is indeed important, is it is not only indexed, it is used as the description in search engine results.

The page title tag's importance far outweighs any meta tag. You should choose the words used here carefully: keep it short, specific to the page, and be sure to not repeat it on multiple pages. It generally should not contain the company name, but if you do, put it last in the list so if it gets truncated or ignored, your keywords take precedence.

<title>Red widgets ding dongs ho hos my company</title>

many posts here will tell you no, don't use the company name at all, the real estate in the title tag is too precious for that. They are probably correct.

I am trying to use the keyword red widget for my entire site and the specifically do my page for Ding dong.

I don't know if this is a "good" approach. The title tags should always be specific to the page and unique, as the description tag should be. If you paste the same title and description in the headers, and Google will see these as the same content - and index one, omitting the rest.

Last, keep in mind web sites don't index/rank, web pages do. You could only potentially index will for "red widgets" on your entire site if every page says a lot about "red widgets." Approach each page individually.

This topic has been discussed at great length. Since it's self-referencing, I'm pretty sure the following search term will be allowed. Paste it into Google:

meta tags site:webmasterworld.com
title site:webmasterworld.com

[malcolmcroucher]

Thanks , this has been a great help

[malcolmcroucher]

Okay I have been analysing my descriptions and noted my keywords are at the end of the description would this be a factor ?

Like you say for title : keywords at the front and maybe company name afterwards .

So would it be better to have keywords at the front of descriptions ?

Regards

Malcolm