You can get excellent results with just onsite optimization on its own but the effects tend to be unstable and not effective long-term. To get top results you will need to do a lot off offsite optimisation as well.

Top onsite SEO tip: change the page title

Believe it or not the changing the page title is one of the most important onsite optimization techniques you can do. The page title is what appears at the top of a web browser on the left hand side. Visitors to your internet site will not ordinarily take much notice of your page title because it is not rendered on your page. However, search engines take a lot of notice of the page title.

If you do not know what the page title looks like in the HTML just open up any page in browser and look at the page source (right click the page and select view source).

You will find the page title inside the <title?</title? tags usually within the first few lines of the HTML code. This is an example of an HTML title tag : <title?This is my page title</title?.

Search engines are very focused on page titles because it is like the title of a book – it tells you what is inside. By paying close attention to the page title you can move your ranking up considerably. The other day we could not get a client to rank for a specific keyword – we had missed adding this into the title (we are ranking clients for many keywords) and then the following day after we got the page reindexed by Google they moved from the second page to the first.

The magic is to make the page title 100% of your keyword or as close to that as manageable. The more extra words, other than your keyword(s), that you have, will dilute the strength. Focus is everything in the world of SEO.

For example, avoid doing this: <title?Earth Worms in the Middle East</title? when your keyword is earth worms. Instead simply use: <title?Earth Worms</title?.

If you have multiple keywords only use 2 or 3 maximum or again the focus is diluted. If you are using multiple keywords then do it like this: <title?Earth worms | Middle East</title? – never use filler words like ‘in’ and ‘the’.

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The All-In-One-SEO Pack is a great WordPress plugin that completes the SEO aspects for WordPress. For some reason WordPress still has not got the SEO fixed out of the box.

The All-In-One-SEO Pack provides for you to change the most important page elements – page title and page description. It also permits you to change the page keywords, but as we all know, search engines no longer take note of these because they have been spammed too much in the past. Google stopped using the keywords for page ranking in the early 2000’s.

Page Title tags

This is the No1 SEO element to control. Always make sure that you control the page title. The page title appears in the browser window at the very top of the screen. Search engines use this in the listings and display it in their search results.

Ideally the page title comprises only of appropriate keywords and nothing else. To make the text more human readable then we often add a pipe character (

The page title is the MOST important SEO page element because it is like the title of a book. And just like a book title, if it is good it will be more engaging to readers.

If your page needs to stretch to cover two or three keywords we have learned that you can still get great rankings from adding multiple keywords to the title. But do remember that the closer the page title is to the keyword you want to rank for the better.

Even though it is best to keep the page title just to the keywords you want to rank for, if you are a branded company you will also most likely need to add in your company name so that it shows up on Google in your search listing.

Page Description Meta Tags

This element is NOT used by search engines for ranking purposes. All The Same, most search engines will utilize this in their search results so it is important. We have found that Google will use the description most of the time. We have not yet learned how it decides if to use it or not. The rest of the time it will pick up the first piece of text on the page.

By having a good description it will increase your click through rates because the text will be more magnetic to people. Ensure that you use a maximum of 156 characters. If you use any more characters Google will truncate the rest. If you can keep your descriptions to–0 characters or less this is even better seeing Google sometimes adds a date to the beginning of the description which is part of the 156 characters it displays.

SEO Meta data shown on Google listing

Changing the meta data and page title

At the bottom of every page and post you will find the meta tags plugin details. Update the details appropriately. Note: If you can only use see the title for the plugin and no details, just click the title and the section will expand.

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