Title Tags
OK I don't have a ton of time because I am on lunch but I wanted to share with you a little about title tags. Yes I work for Contact At Once and I will be using our website for this illustration. I will make this as elementary as possible. We know for a fact that title tags are extremely important when it comes to SEO per google. Please note: these opinions are in no way related to those of Contact At Once and are my own opinions or facts I have gathered from research. I will try to share my sources where it is necessary. I act on the behalf of Ryan Lucia and express my own views on SEO. So lets dive in...
A web Designer will add your title tags in the HTML in your website. It will look like this.
Don't worry no need for you to know anything about this I just wanted to show you. This can be found on most websites by right clicking on them and "view source".
You can usually find an easy way to add title tags with a content management system, better known as a CMS. You probably use one of these already. The purpose is to allow people that don't know code or have the software to accomplish making changes easily. As you know I am a big Wordpress fan for many reasons but one is the open source factor. Here is a snapshot of a plugin that does the work for you.
How does google use title tags?
See you knew what title tags where all along
. These are your headlines in google. The keywords that the searcher searches will be highlighted with bold text in search results. I suggest adding the same keywords in your descriptions also (later date).
Do title tags show on my website? Kind of....See below for examples of where people will see your title tags.
Notice you also see the type of browser the site visitor is using.
And if you use tabs.....
So in a nutshell that is where you see title tags. That wasn't so hard was it? That is a simple way of showing you title tags. No code needed in most cases.
Word of advice if you have control of your title tags. Don't load them up with a bunch of keywords. Please listen to this advice.....
Do your keyword research, pick a hand full of keywords 2 to 6 max. Google will rank keywords highest the closer they are to the front. Choose your keywords wisely. You can hurt yourself here. Choose the words you want to dominate for, but don't be too broad. Keyword research should take you hours. I mean get out a spread sheet....compare your site with competitors, and get to work.
My suggestion to all before playing with your keywords. Learn how to get a domain (search "cheap domains" and get $6.99 domain from godaddy in sponsored link section at top), get a hosting account, and open a wordpress.org account, and learn how to get your site to show on your domain. Maybe that will be for a later post. Any how....build yourself a mini site or micro site and choose your keywords and see how you do. You will be $7 and $9 monthly into it and if you fail you don't hurt business. Who knows you may actually do well and make yourself extra money.
I will let this post ride for a little before posting the next one. If you have any questions please feel free to ask away and I will try to do my best to answer them.
This was a post on title tags for SEO. If this was helpful please say so because if you are not interested I won't continue. Power to the dealers!
Note to dealerrefresh: treat all members the same, yo! tag all posters as sponsors or none at all.
....Wordpress huh? Never heard of it 
....nice tagging too.
