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Write Page Titles That Get Attention

Posted April 12th, 2010 by Mark Aaron Murnahan
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Keep Your Page Title Short

Page titles that get attention are smart, short, and compelling. Without a good page title, the rest loses importance. If you want to write a page title that works, stop using so many words. Write like you want it to be read.

I am a conversational writer, and I use too many words. I write books and long blog articles. You use too many words, too. Most of us use too many words. We make sentences too long. If we word-it-up, we (think we) seem smarter.

Page Titles Get Clicked

Page titles are a top priority for SEO. Titles are indexed, and page titles are what people click to read the rest. Practice writing page titles. Write it in fewer words if you can. Make it easy to understand.

Try using Twitter if you need practice.

Stop using too many words.

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Erin Taylor

I have always told clients to keep page titles under 70 characters, keyword rich and, like you said, be smart about it. Do you think even shorter?

Mark Aaron Murnahan

I do not hold to the "rules" of length as much as making it interesting and compelling while also including relevant keywords. 70 is fine, and 80 will still not cause puppy dogs to die, but 50 used with precision works, too. I just looked at my archive to see if I take my own advice. Sure enough ... the longest one was still pretty short.

http://www.awebguy.com/archive...

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