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Search engine optimization, also known as search engine placement and search engine positioning, is the process of improving a web site for higher search engine rankings.

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Titles and Meta Tags
for Search Engine Optimization
and Internet Marketing


The Power of Strategic Popularity

In the early days of search engine optimization, marketers focused on meta-tags as the primary way to attract search engine traffic. Meta-tags are HTML tags that help describe the document they are located within. Today search engines not only look at meta-tags, but your web site's content , internal link structure and link popularity.

Meta-tags are still an important tool for successful search engine marketing. Search engines focus on three primary meta-tags to help them determine the relevance of a web site for a particular search phrase.

The Title Tag is one of the most important meta-tags for a search engine. The Title Tag should describe exactly what the document contains. It should contain keywords, but not repeats, of terms you hope to be found for. It should also be as readable as possible. You must consider that the Title Tag will be the first thing someone sees if you appear in a search result.

Too often, companies or individuals focus on making sure their company name or proper name appears in every Title Tag on their web site. Imagine walking into an immense library that contained millions of books all with the same title. You would go crazy and never find what you were looking for.

The Title Tag should be no longer than 60-70 characters and should contain words and phrases that accurately describe the content of a page. Try to make the Title Tags located throughout your site unique and relevant. Every word in the Title should be contained somewhere in the page they are used for. Research has also shown that a call to action will usually produce more clicks than a basic description.

Example for this page:
<TITLE>Title Tags, META Keywords, and Descriptions - Covenant Designs Guidelines</TITLE>

Remember to look at the log files of your web site, with a tool like WebTrends, and determine the top keywords that people are finding your site with today. You can then fine tune your Title Tags throughout your web site to reflect popular terms that you are highly relevant for. This will only show you the keywords you are performing well for today. There are likely many terms that won't show up in your log files. You'll want to research those using tools from Overture or WordTracker.

The next tag that search engines use to determine relevance is the Description Tag. The description for a web site is a 150-250 character explanation of the page and its contents. It should contain keywords and phrases you hope to be found for, but it should also read like an introductory lead-in for the topic or service you are highlighting. The Description Tag is another call to action.

Example for this page:
<META name="description" content="Visit 7i Studio today to learn the basic guidelines for writing great title tags, META keywords and descriptions for your web pages.">

Your Description and Title Tag together should be compelling enough to generate a click through from a search result. You have to put yourself in the search engine visitor's position. They are looking for something very specific. The description you provide for your page has to convince the person that you are providing exactly what they are looking for. If a user comes to your site and the Title and Description Tags don't accurately match the content they actually find, you are less likely to be considered a reputable source of information.

The last meta-tag that is important to search engines is the Keyword Tags. Keyword Tags should contain less than 250 characters including spaces and use important keywords and phrases consistent with the HTML Body Text and Page Title. No single word should be used more than twice.

Keyword Tags should contain realistic keyword terms that you hope to compete for. The more generic the term you include in your keywords, the more likely you are to be swimming in an ocean of 7 million other documents. Being specific and accurate are the ingredients to success with keywords. It's important that any keywords you use in your meta-tags actually exist in the pages they are used for.

Example:
<META name="keywords" content="search engine optimization and meta tag optimization">

Titles and Description tags are the most important meta-tags that search engines consider to determine relevancy. Search engines also need to be able to successfully crawl your web site so that they can include them in their database. That's where your link architecture becomes very important. Read more about link architecture here.

Here's a quick checklist to consider when writing tags:
Title:

* Provides a call to action?
* Contains less than 80 character?
* Uses important keywords and phrases?
* Accurately describes what the page is about?
* Consistent with other content components?

META Keywords:

* Contains less than 250 characters?
* Uses important keywords and phrases?
* Minimal repetition of individual words?
* Consistent with other content components?

META Description:

* Provides a call to action?
* Contains less than 250 characters?
* Uses important keywords and phrases?
* Describes what the page is about?
* Consistent with other content components?

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