Real-Time Example of Page Title Keyword Value
January 28, 2010 by David
Filed under Domains & Websites, Making Money, Search Engine Optimization, Website & Domain Issues
There has been an ongoing discussion for years about the SEO value of having important keywords in the webpage title. Some SEO experts tend to downplay its value to a degree, while many others say it is of high value. Personally, I have always talked about its great value.
As an experiment I picked a more or less randomly chosen basic word, the word is ‘make’ and then did a Google search for “make.” The search shows out of 100 top search results the keyword was in the web-page title 95 times (95% of the total).
I think that is pretty strong evidence of its significant SEO value. In fact, it would appear the keyword in page title may even be of equal or greater value than the website content (at least on some of the search-result sites I looked at). This is all quite interesting if this seo research is in fact valid.
Here is the search: click-here for Google Search
I have looked into this myself, i.e. the relevance of the page title. But also wondered about an exact match domain name and to what degree that brings higher search engine placement.
It has been said that the meta keywords are rarely used anymore by the search engines (though I don’t know that to be true).
Google of course focuses on page content. Page content, exact match domain name, and relevant page title are probably three excellent starting points for making a site competitive in the search engines.