When I write a blog I like to attempt to add some fun activities or tidbits of information here and there – it makes things interesting. What is today’s activity you ask?
Go to Google and type in “Untitled Document”. How many results do you get? I got 44,500,000 search results and I have no doubts that you got more.
As Leigh mentioned in his 'SEO for small business' post, title tags are very important for the search engine optimization of a website. Websites get launched daily without title tags. This is often due to forgetfulness or bad habits on the web developer’s part. Could be a result of being rushed too. When a new HTML document is created, most of the time using templates, it includes a title tag of “Untitled Document”.
No matter what you’re selling, advertising, or wanting users to see, getting anywhere near to #1 under any keywords with an untitled document is not likely to happen and your target users are not going to find you.
Title tags aren't just for search engines either. They are viewed by your website visitor in a few prominent places:
- text that appears within the blue bar at the top of a browser window.
- On browser tabs, the title is also what appears in the tab.
- When a website visitor minimizes the browser window, the title tag is what is appears.
- The title is also what appears on the first line of search results in the major search engines.
The best SEO practices also keep in mind the benefit for your website visitors. Provided good meaningful title tags will help your visitors, as well as your search engine rankings.
So be free my friends – go and give the gift to yourself of properly named title tags and watch your website climb the rankings in the search engines.
