HTML tag displaying the title of a web page.
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Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?
Stack Overflow has made a change to their page titles such that the most popular tag for a question appears at the start of the title. The change is being deployed across the network, so check out the page title for this question.
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How long should my HTML page title really be?
How long should my text within my
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What's the importance of the "title" tag?
Talking with some other people recently, it came up an interesting topic. The core question at hand is:
What's the real importance and weight of the tag in a web site?
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<h3><a href="../../questions/16251/should-site-title-be-before-or-after-page-title" class="question-hyperlink">Should Site Title be Before or After Page Title?</a></h3>
<div class="excerpt">Apologies if this is a dupe. I tried searching, but didn't find anything specifically addressing this concern.
When creating a large(ish) site, page titles usually reference both the site name and the current page name. However, it seems there are…</div>
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<h3><a href="../../questions/14415/title-tag-different-from-title-appearing-in-google" class="question-hyperlink">Title tag different from title appearing in Google?</a></h3>
<div class="excerpt">I'm just wondering how it is possible that IGN.com has this in its title tag:
Video Games, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Game Trailers, Reviews, News, Previews & Videos at IGN
while on Google its title is simply "IGN".
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<h3><a href="../../questions/26849/which-symbol-should-i-use-in-the-title-or" class="question-hyperlink">Which symbol should I use in the title: "|" or "-"?</a></h3>
<div class="excerpt">So there are two way of writing a site's page title:
Meow | Photo Magazine
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Meow - Photo Magazine
Which one is better (for SEO and for users)?
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<h3><a href="../../questions/2614/what-s-the-meta-tag-title-for" class="question-hyperlink">What's the meta-tag title for?</a></h3>
<div class="excerpt">While reading this question on webmasters:
Why don't websites have a "description" meta tag in the head section?, I also checked out StackExchange's source code. Indeed the 'description' meta-tag is missing, just to save a few bytes as Jeff noted in…</div>
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<h3><a href="../../questions/104057/after-updating-the-title-and-meta-description-how-long-until-changes-take-plac" class="question-hyperlink">After updating the title and meta description, how long until changes take place on Google?</a></h3>
<div class="excerpt">I am using the Yoast plugin to help with the SEO of my site. I just set everything up and am wondering how long it takes for google to update the information. As you can probably tell already the only knowledge I have is basic CSS.
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<h3><a href="../../questions/59797/pipes-or-colons-in-html-title-tags" class="question-hyperlink">Pipes or colons in HTML title tags?</a></h3>
<div class="excerpt">Other than esthetics, are there any valid reasons to choose pipes vs colons in an HTML <title> tag, or vice-versa? Usability? SEO?
Example:
<title>Example.com | Top 10 list of stuff
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Example.com: Top 10 list of stuff
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Should every page on my site have our company name in the title?
How different should the tags be for each page on my domain?
Which of the following are better examples are "better practice":
Home - Example Dog Grooming Company
About Us - Example Dog Grooming Company
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<h3><a href="../../questions/69050/my-title-tag-doesn-t-appear-to-be-getting-crawled-by-google-properly" class="question-hyperlink">My title tag doesn't appear to be getting crawled by Google properly</a></h3>
<div class="excerpt">My title is:
<title>School Management Software, College & University Management Software, Cloud ERP Software
However it's showing up like this in Google:
Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Any insight would be really helpful.
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I was looking today in my Google Webmaster tools for my website and see duplicate titles for the following pages on my website (small sample out of many on my site…
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Display of special characters in the page title in SERPs
I have noticed a few oddities recently with the titles of web pages in search engine results pages (SERPs). I started using some special characters in my page titles in order to make them look slightly more appealing in SERPs and perhaps stand out a…
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How to tell Google that each subfolder is a different site? Otherwise, Google appends the main site's name to every other subfolder
One of our Korean clients (who would like to remain unamed) has a problem with their section of their website (subfolder). They are part of an international organization. Let's call them "Foobar" for our purposes.
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Is redundant?
The tag is displayed to the user of the search engine. Given that it is also what the search engine uses for ranking, why would one need to include a <meta name="title" content=""> tag?
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