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Bharath Reddy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:09:01 +0000

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By: Andy Boyd

Andy Boyd — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:11:38 +0000

@RedEvo – There are lots of sites ranking for high traffic keyphrases with titles longer than 70 characters. But my thinking is that if there are people scanning down the results then what are they going to find more appealing: a well-written title & concise snippet, or a title & snippet that doesn’t read or look well because it’s really nothing more than a long comma separated list of keywords?

If positions in the organic results were paid for, I bet you’d see webmasters caring a lot more about titles. ;)

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By: RedEvo

RedEvo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:43:31 +0000

If you make your title ELEMENT up to but not more than 70 characters it will all be displayed. If you have to make it bigger make it cut off nicely at 66 chars. Yahoo displays 120 chars.

However, you will see pages ranking for phrases outside 70 chars so to what extent is this curtailing hurting you? Perhaps not at all, but perhaps otherwise.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:31:46 +0000

i think 23 was joking, guys. (mudkips?)

By: Andy Boyd

Andy Boyd — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:11:02 +0000

@23 – While there may be a role for keyword density, it doesn’t seem to carry as much weight as it once did. In fact, repeating the same phrase over and over on a single page could end with you getting penalised for being over optimised.

@Luke Eales & Ben McKay – I agree, in my opinion it’s now much less about keyword density and more about semantic relevancy. Anyway, why would you want to optimise a single page for just a single phrase like ‘blue widgets’ when you could get it ranking for lots of other related phrases like ‘cheap blue widget’ and ‘light blue mens widget’? That’s the problem with an approach like this: you can end up creating lots of content that actually has very little inherent value that nobody will ever link to, is obviously designed to rank and at the heels of the hunt runs the risk of getting slapped with one of Google’s infamous OOPs.

By: Fat Belly

Fat Belly — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:00:27 +0000

I think that people should pay more attention to the title and description: SEM experts spend hours tweaking single letters and re-arranging the text to maximize CTR. SEO should give at least some attention to the fact that your SERP result is in fact an advertisement, and it should be adjusted to get the best result.

I think it’s an interesting idea to control the topic of your page in such a way that it has a very narrow focus. However, if that is the case, then what about your index/home page? If your site is fractured into narrowly focused sections, how do you fragement your visitors without diluting your keyword relevance?

By: Ben McKay

Ben McKay — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:28:37 +0000

…sorry, disagree with that last comment. You lost me on ‘keyword density’…

By: Luke Eales

Luke Eales — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:48:50 +0000

Keyword density is an old-school SEO term and I’m surprised to still hear it being used, especially in such a definite, scientific manner as you have.