Hello there,

I'm completely new to the whole SEO process. My site is built and am looking to enhance it to get better SERP's and to take advantage of the traffic when they arrive.(aren't we all. LOL!)

I see my webdesigner used the same keywords in the source on all the pages.

He also used as the title, the url of each page. Example: http://www.example.com/primex.html So whatever the URL of the page is, is what he had for the title... nothing more.

Here are my questions:

1.) Do I leave all the keywords the same on each page? I have all the keywords I want for now? OR... Do I only use the keywords best suited for each individual page? I have different products on each page.

2.) How do you recommend I title each page? How is the title used at SE's? Do I have seperate titles for each page using keywords that are specific to that page?

I have many questions, but this is a start!

Thanks for your help!

Webseeker

It's best to have different keywords for different pages and put your most important keywords within the first few words of the title.

2.) How do you recommend I title each page? How is the title used at SE's? Do I have seperate titles for each page using keywords that are specific to that page?

The title is what will generally appear in the search results so you want it to be something catchy that will attract visitors to your site.

For this very reason, yes, you do want a different title for each page. Make them an accurate description of what can be found on each particular page so that the visitors get what they are looking for.

Hello there! Wanted to thank you two for the quick replies. Very to the point and straight forward answers.

Thank you very much! 2 Thumbs Up!

Webseeker

We could perhaps give you more idea if you give examples of what your sites about, but as already stated you want different titles for the different pages. The more pages with different content and details, the more places you will show up in the search engine results.

You could for example have product pages with titles like:-

Blue Wigets: Get a Blue Wiget at Widgetville

I wouldnt go longer than 9 words, shorter may be better but certainly you want something thats not to spammy but might attract visitors to the page. Main keywords first, dont forget Search engines read plurals as different words. Widget and Widgets are different.

Remember this is the title that will show on the results pages of the search engines. So you want the titles to tell the search engine user what the page is about. Also, certainly for MSN search, meta descriptions are also a good idea now and we are also stating the meta keyword now also. These are the descriptions that the user does not see but spiders can and are a text overview of what the page is about at the top of the code for the page in question. I think Google still ignores some of this but MSN certainly takes it into account. Our results in MSN show our title and meta description then off page content.

Hope this helps

Good luck
Rich
Job Search at Redgoldfish Jobs

RichTC,

Thanks for the words of wisdom. I have read your reply over several times as to ingrain your words into my memory! I especially like the info on the meta description. That was new to me and now that I have that explained, I feel a bit more enlightened.

Take Care... G'day Mate!

Webseeker

If we could get a website address some of us could do some reviews for you. Briefly the Title tag is the most important this should be unique per page as should the description. The keywords being unique is not as important but will help as many search engines look at this as a plus. Check out our http://www.auxic.com/fa_metatags.htm article for exact information about building meta tags.

1.) Do I leave all the keywords the same on each page? I have all the keywords I want for now? OR... Do I only use the keywords best suited for each individual page? I have different products on each page.

If you are able to seperate each page keywords its best option. If not atleast categorize them in section and get the keywords for each section.

2.) How do you recommend I title each page? How is the title used at SE's? Do I have seperate titles for each page using keywords that are specific to that page?

Title should reflect the content of the page and should be different for each page.

I have many questions, but this is a start!

Just put them here.