Comments on: Sunday Morning SEO: How to Combine Catchy and Keyword Rich Titles http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/19/combine-catchy-and-keyword-rich-titles/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joelchrist http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/19/combine-catchy-and-keyword-rich-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-1101639 Joelchrist Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:47:07 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=11811#comment-1101639 You are right. Titles are major factor to your get keywords get crawled quickly by search engine. make your title with your relevant keywords. use google adword tool to find apt keywords. You are right. Titles are major factor to your get keywords get crawled quickly by search engine. make your title with your relevant keywords. use google adword tool to find apt keywords.

]]> By: Dee Barizo http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/19/combine-catchy-and-keyword-rich-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-996207 Dee Barizo Sun, 03 May 2009 17:18:20 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=11811#comment-996207 @Heather and Jamie As long as the two titles are similar enough, the vast majority of your visitors after you make the change will still read the post. Consider the example I gave by Aaron Wall. Here are the two titles. 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006 101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website I think the titles are similar enough that most people will keep reading. Moreover, your two titles should be similar because they're for the same post. Even if you do get that stray visitor that hits the back button because the title is different, that's more than outweighed by the many visitors you'll get from the high ranking. @Ari You could change the URL too but I don't think it's necessary. The new title will be related to your URL so changing the URL doesn't seem necessary. @Heather and Jamie

As long as the two titles are similar enough, the vast majority of your visitors after you make the change will still read the post. Consider the example I gave by Aaron Wall. Here are the two titles.

101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006
101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website

I think the titles are similar enough that most people will keep reading.

Moreover, your two titles should be similar because they’re for the same post.

Even if you do get that stray visitor that hits the back button because the title is different, that’s more than outweighed by the many visitors you’ll get from the high ranking.

@Ari

You could change the URL too but I don’t think it’s necessary. The new title will be related to your URL so changing the URL doesn’t seem necessary.

]]> By: Jamie Allsop http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/19/combine-catchy-and-keyword-rich-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-976660 Jamie Allsop Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:50:43 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=11811#comment-976660 Even tho it is hard to think of catchy keyword rich titles, would it not be best to do that straight away, instead of making it catchy and then coming back to make it keyword rich. I'm thinking along the lines of what Heather said about 'arriving at a page with a completely different title' people may see there is a different title and not bother reading it. Even tho it is hard to think of catchy keyword rich titles, would it not be best to do that straight away, instead of making it catchy and then coming back to make it keyword rich. I’m thinking along the lines of what Heather said about ‘arriving at a page with a completely different title’ people may see there is a different title and not bother reading it.

]]> By: Ari Herzog http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/19/combine-catchy-and-keyword-rich-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-976416 Ari Herzog Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:06:15 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=11811#comment-976416 Are you talking about changing the title alone--or also changing the physical URL's keywords, too; and redirecting it with a plugin or in your .htaccess? Are you talking about changing the title alone–or also changing the physical URL’s keywords, too; and redirecting it with a plugin or in your .htaccess?

]]> By: Heather http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/19/combine-catchy-and-keyword-rich-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-976291 Heather Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:23:44 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=11811#comment-976291 Okay, but here is my problem with changing title. Suppose that I get a bunch of bloggers to link to my post. They will certainly refer to that post by name. Then, one day, I up and change the title to something more keyword-rich. Now, if visitors arrive at my site via one of those original links they may become confused because they were expecting a post by one name and arrive at a page with a completely different title. They may not even stick around to read the content because they feel that they have arrived at the wrong page. Okay, but here is my problem with changing title. Suppose that I get a bunch of bloggers to link to my post. They will certainly refer to that post by name. Then, one day, I up and change the title to something more keyword-rich. Now, if visitors arrive at my site via one of those original links they may become confused because they were expecting a post by one name and arrive at a page with a completely different title. They may not even stick around to read the content because they feel that they have arrived at the wrong page.

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