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| Title Guidelines & SEO Tips | Title Importance | Title Location | Title Examples | Title Length |
Title Importance - Why is the page Title so important
A good page title is essential because The title:
- The title appears on the very top line of a browser window, immediately below the browsers border.
- The title partially appears in Browser Tabs
- The title is used by Search Engines and usually displayed in results of searches.
- After a pages content, the title is the most important Element on a page for SEO. Search engine optimization
Title Location
The page title is located in the head section of your page code.
Example
<!DOCTYPE >
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Place your HTML Title content here</title>
More head code here as required
</head>
The title can be entered directly into the Source Code. This is the best way to learn HTML
or HTML editors have a section for you to enter the title
Title Examples
<title>Your Title for the page goes here. Include the pages Keyphrases</title>
The following is the title of this page:
<title>HTML Title tag Guidelines SEO Importance Length Location Examples</title>
Guidelines on how to use the HTML Title tag. Why it's Importance, the Length to use, where to place it and Title Examples
Title Length
- Maximum Length: Around 64 characters. Spaces are counted as characters.
- Longer titles will be truncated
- Title element examples that are Too Short and therefore unmeaning full
- <title>Information</title>
- <title>Home Page</title>
- <title>Very Important</title>
Title Guidelines & SEO Tips
- The <title> element is required in all HTML documents, (ie page).
- An element is the tag plus it's contents.
- Only one <title> tag is allowed per documents
- The title is a short description of that Pages content. Include keyphrases / Keywords in the description
- It should be descriptive
- Meaningful
- Do not repeat keyphrases / Keywords
- Each title on your site should be unique. ie do not repeat titles
- Maximum Length: Around 64 characters. Spaces are counted as characters. Longer titles will be truncated
- Do not include any of the following with the <title></title>
tags
- Anchors
- Paragraph marks
- Highlighting
- HTML tags
- Examples that are Too Short and therefore unmeaning full
- <title>Information</title>
- <title>Home Page</title>
- <title>Very Important</title>
- <title></title> written in lowercase
- If you want to use the short version of and, &, then enter & into the title element.
Note & is converted to & by the browser