Seo For Newbies - To Title Or Not To Title ?

The Untitled Page

The topic of seo ( Search engine Optimization ) is complex enough that there are specific job classifications for this and specific companies that hire entire platoons of specialists who claim to do nothing else.

So, in 5 minutes, you are not going to learn all of the entire nature of this business, but let me give you a very important first tip.

Do not submit your site to any services for search engine submission before ensuring that each and every page has a short 2-4 word title that includes the main keyword you wish that page to be found for.

Sounds logical or a bit laughable right? The truth is that the title tag is quite frequently forgotten by webmasters and the title given to the page by default then ends up with a title like this "untitled"

Nothing tells The Wondrous Google Engineers that you care less about your content than a page with no title. In the past, these pages were largely ignored or the search engines simply took a sentence or two from the top of your page and used that as the description to help you out but the page stayed named as Untitled. These pages won't rank in the search engine results and unless your avid intention is to really hide your page, don't do this.

As a side discussion that is of no value in this particular discussion, I have google bombed someone else's untitled page and changed its title in the serps.

So how many of us make this mistake?

The google search below says that there are 12.3 million pages online with untitled in their title. The first 1000 pages are truly people talking about untitled similar to what we are doing here, I suspect many of the remaining 12 million pages are truly people who have forgotten to put a title tag on their page.

Title tags can also be used in anchor text or links. When a mouse hover over a link gives you text that you can read, it means that usually the author was diligent and used a title tag inside their anchor tag.

The Google search that returns 12.3 million results
Type into the google search box inurl:"Untitled"

Please, don't forget your title tag.
How can you ensure that you don't forget your title tag ?
Use a free Drupal or Wordpress blog. Google, Bing and Yahoo love blogs.

If using Wordpress as your free blog software, use a free plugin like All-in-One-SEO to help you easily customize titles and descriptions on all your blog posts.

Have I said, Don't forget your title tags? Well, let me be redundant and say, "If you use a blog, don't forget your tags". Yes, your title "tags" is html code in the header or plain text if your are using the All-in-One plugin or something similar. Your document tags are classification words.

Some of the tags that I am using for this document are
untitled,tags,google search,title tags,classify,seo,earn from home

These tags enable technorati and hundreds of other search engines to more easily classify your document, article or post for better search and more potential traffic to your site.