June 16, 2005
Title Tags: Will Their Importance Be De-Emphasized?
I figure there's a wide variety of people reading this SEO blog, at all different points in the experience curve. To that end I planned on writing about the importance of title tags for search engine optimization.
However, I noticed that recently there's been a number of articles and posts about how important well-written, keyword-rich titles are:
- How to Write Great Titles and Headlines for the Web
- Title Tags: Simple SEO
- 10 Tips to Help Improve Your Natural Search Engine Ranking
- Technorati: "Title Tag" search
Title tags seem to be the topic du jour.
On one hand, this is good. Title tags are an important part of search engine optimization and Web site owners should know and understand how to write good page titles.
On the other hand, if everyone knows how to optimize their title tags, will they become abused and thus become less important?
Meta-tags, incoming links, and even (supposedly) blogs have become de-emphasized in search engines' algorithms. Will title tags be next?
What do you think?
Posted by at June 16, 2005 10:49 PM