Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Check your websites' Title and Meta Descriptions

Each web page that's part of your website should have a distinct 'Title' and 'Meta Description'. This information is very important when it comes to search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing) as it provides a brief summary of what the page is about. As such, proper optimization of the Title and Meta Description is crucial to your websites search engine ranking.

Take a look at the Title and Meta Description on EACH of your web pages ... here's how:

1. View each of your web pages in any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, ect.)
2. At the top of your browser click 'View' >> 'Source' OR 'View' >> 'Source Code'

You'll probably see lots of code you don't understand, that's ok. Near the top of the page look for the Title and Meta Description tags:

<title>Title of the web page</title>
<Meta name="description" content="Brief description of the web page">

If your Title contains just your company name or some obscure title then it's not optimized properly. Likewise, your Meta Description should be clear, concise an specific to that page.

To learn how to properly optimize your Title and Meta Description please read the following article:

http://www.siteachieve.com/articles/meta_tags.html

If you have any questions or comments please post them in our FB discussion group at:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121257353635

I hope it helps!
Stephen

ps. While you in the FB discussion group please invite all your FB friends to join.

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