Optimizing the page title

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Monday
Jan 23, 2006

Taking the cue from Yuga, I tweaked the settings on the item pages here on the J Spot and over at the J Spotter to display the actual post title before the site title in the HTML field . So your browser window should say “<strong>Optimizing the page title – The J Spot</strong>” instead of just the site title if you’re viewing this post’s static link.<br /> <br /> <br /> Actually, for the J Spot, only the blog title is visible even in the item pages–an i.PH default (and it’s a known fact that I’ve been tweaking my i.PH site since time immemorial), which I think is a limitation, design-wise.</p><br /> <p>This title tweak is great for <span class="caps">SEO</span> and even usability, in that in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serps_competition"><span class="caps">SER</span>Ps</a>, users are more likely to click on links with the actual article or post titles coming ahead of the blog title (or a link with the post title itself, not just the blog title as the case may be).</p><br /> <p>For example, in doing a Google search on <strong>Cassandra Ponti</strong> as of this writing (my top search keywords for three months in a row), you will see “<strong>The J Spot</strong>” among the top results. But that isn’t very descriptive, is it? 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