Comments on: Why Descriptive Titles are Important http://www.seoish.com/why-descriptive-titles-are-important/ Widget strategy, Google Gadgets, iGoogle, and the shifting sands of SEO. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:33:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phillis Woolery http://www.seoish.com/why-descriptive-titles-are-important/comment-page-1/#comment-49222 Phillis Woolery Sat, 28 May 2011 17:26:19 +0000 http://www.seoish.com/?p=1745#comment-49222 Pretty great write-up. I just Digging your website and desired to say that I’ve actually loved reading your blogpost. Any approach I’ll be signing as much as your feed and I believe you’ll put up as soon as extra in the close to future. Pretty great write-up. I just Digging your website and desired to say that I’ve actually loved reading your blogpost. Any approach I’ll be signing as much as your feed and I believe you’ll put up as soon as extra in the close to future.

]]> By: Evan http://www.seoish.com/why-descriptive-titles-are-important/comment-page-1/#comment-7898 Evan Tue, 12 May 2009 16:47:24 +0000 http://www.seoish.com/?p=1745#comment-7898 Yeah it's a must to initially optimize for the bloggosphere and then later put the descriptive/keyword rich titles in there. If you are tricky, you can even write a script that will change the title X days after it's been posted. The simplest way (conceptually speaking) to do it, is to just hack your script and add something like this: if (7 days have passed since I posted this) { //display descriptive title } else { //display catchy title } That way you can write the descriptive title and the catchy title all in one shot, without having to go back and manually modify the title. Yeah it’s a must to initially optimize for the bloggosphere and then later put the descriptive/keyword rich titles in there.

If you are tricky, you can even write a script that will change the title X days after it’s been posted.

The simplest way (conceptually speaking) to do it, is to just hack your script and add something like this:

if (7 days have passed since I posted this)
{
//display descriptive title
}
else
{
//display catchy title
}

That way you can write the descriptive title and the catchy title all in one shot, without having to go back and manually modify the title.

]]> By: Dr. Pete http://www.seoish.com/why-descriptive-titles-are-important/comment-page-1/#comment-7897 Dr. Pete Mon, 11 May 2009 22:10:14 +0000 http://www.seoish.com/?p=1745#comment-7897 Speaking from a usability/testing standpoint, it's amazing how often "boring and descriptive" wins. It may not seem sexy, but descriptive titles drive results, and nothing's sexier than results. Speaking from a usability/testing standpoint, it’s amazing how often “boring and descriptive” wins. It may not seem sexy, but descriptive titles drive results, and nothing’s sexier than results.

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