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Breakdown of a Good Page Title Element

The most important part of an HTML page is the . Technically, TITLE is neither an attribute nor a tag – It’s an element. So while most people call it the title tag, it is semantically correct to call it the title element.</p> <p>key uses of the title:</p> <ol> <li>branding in search engine results pages</li> <li>bookmarking</li> <li>intra site navigation </li> </ol> <p>1 – you want your site to show up and be clicked. google displays (as of this writing) 70 characters of a title, and all characters beyond 70 are cut off. Yahoo displays 60 characters.</p> <p>A good way to write titles is:</p> <p> * Home Page: Brand/Site Name – Keyword Description<br /> * Inner Pages: Specific Keyword Description & Page Name – Brand/Site Name </p> <p>2 – If a user uses del.icio.us or bookmarks your site you want your name to be first. So it would be better to have the title be:</p> <p>Brand Name – Find all Brand Products Here</p> <p>than:</p> <p>Keyword Phrase 1, Keyword Phrase 2, Keyword Phrase 3 Brand name. Your Brand name would get lost.</p> <p>3 – For people that read title elements and page headings, its good to keep them in synch. 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