Repeat keywords in Title Tag? Repeat Title Tag?

Christine8 · 11-25-2006, 05:30 PM

Should you repeat your keyword in the Title Tag?

And should you duplicate the Title Tag for SEO reasons?

Sideways · 11-25-2006, 05:46 PM

I wouldn't repeat. I would use the rest of the title tag for other keywords.

dominator · 11-25-2006, 07:04 PM

I wouldn't repeat the keywords. I used to do it around a year ago, but since have had better results not repeating. If you were to repeat keywords, I wouldn't recommend bunching them up.

vistadivine.com · 11-25-2006, 07:08 PM

To all your above questions I would say no.

bermuda · 11-25-2006, 08:24 PM

Since the search engines are now putting more emphasis on the number and quality of links to determine ranking, just repetitions of the words in title cannot do magic and in some cases might create problems due to spamming.

Thomas Schulz · 11-26-2006, 03:02 AM

However, some on page optimization is till important.

With no page optimization, you could risk endning not ranking well for anything in particular. (ok, well, sure, if you get tons of incoming links with relevant anchor text)

Charleston · 11-27-2006, 07:27 PM

Does it help to repeat the exact keywords in the title, description, keywords and text body or will that be bad for SEO?

nasty.web · 11-28-2006, 12:17 AM

If you care about Netscape 1.0 :
Under extremely old browser versions, multiple <title> tags often were used within documents to create an animated title.

http://www.cauniversity.org/node/251

nasty.web · 11-28-2006, 12:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charleston

Does it help to repeat the exact keywords in the title, description, keywords and text body or will that be bad for SEO?

It wont hurt you for sure.

Just don't overdo it. Good keyword density is good for SEO.

cessai · 11-28-2006, 11:41 AM

i will not repeat my keywords

euro · 11-28-2006, 03:09 PM

Your primary keyword and a secondary version of your primary keyword in the title is generally the rule....

Sideways like your tag line...

Bluecircle · 11-29-2006, 12:44 PM

Repitition in tags can only hurt you these days.

nasty.web · 12-08-2006, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Bluecircle

Repitition in tags can only hurt you these days.

Keyword repetition?
Presume my kw is "blue widgets" & my title tag looks like "Blue widgets documentation: learn how to use blue widgets most efficient way". I've used my kw twice - what's wrong with that?

TheBrain · 12-08-2006, 05:58 AM

You keyword density is too hight! That's wrong. If you think about Google, this SE doesn't really tolerate a keyword density higher than 3% in the tags or in the page copy. And that, for a tile tag, is way too long. As I user I will wonder: does he think I am an idiot? Why does he repeat that? Aha, for keywords! OK, then I won't bother with this site. Use just this "learn how to use blue widgets most efficient way".

nasty.web · 12-08-2006, 06:59 AM

Hm, about keyword density:

For example: http://www.v7n.com/forums/ - page title "Webmaster Forum" - and I think main keyword for this site is "webmaster forum". Density - 100% !

http://www.seobook.com/ - page title "Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com" - I could guess that his kw could be "seo book" or "aaron walls seo book". Density higher than 50%.

I could go on. Almost any search on Google for more competitive kw shows many sites with repeated kws in their titles. All others at least do not meet 3% requirement.

How did you came with this number? Why not 4% or 5% ?

nasty.web · 12-08-2006, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBrain

As I user I will wonder: does he think I am an idiot? Why does he repeat that? Aha, for keywords! OK, then I won't bother with this site. Use just this "learn how to use blue widgets most efficient way".

I thought that visitors mostly look for best price/effort/content.

For ordinary visitor kw density is unknown term and the title is good while it describes content which he is reading. And longer titles is more useful while ordinary user check his bookmars, as he can already know what section of site is this: documentation or sales page or something else.

candid_kris · 12-08-2006, 12:35 PM

if i were you i woudn't repeat any of the keywords...it'll not help you...

Webnauts · 12-10-2006, 09:14 AM

Don't repeat keywords in your Title or Meta Tags. And make sure that the keywords you use there, may be found in the body (visible text) of your document.

tork311 · 12-10-2006, 01:49 PM

A keyword I think is ok, but not a keyword phrase for example -

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It's a bit long, but I don't think you would get dinged for a title like this.

nhebb · 12-10-2006, 03:10 PM

FYI, from what I understand the 3-5% rule is for the body of the page, not the title. Those numbers come from studies of how often words appear in natural language. The keywords for the main topic of a body of text is usually in that range. If you go above that range, it's a keyword spamming trigger.