Search Engine Optimization

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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/writing-html-title-tags-humans-google-bing-59384" style="color: #216194;" target="_blank">Title tags</a> have been around forever (at least in Web years), and they’re not particularly sexy.  But they’ve always been a big influence on rankings, and probably will be for at least a while.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">People ask me how I’d write a title tag.  It’s a good question, but I’d rather explain with examples than blabber on about best-practices.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I’ve rounded up 50 examples from 50 “local” businesses.  I went to all that trouble because you’ll need to go to a little trouble, too: Your title tags can <a href="http://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors" style="color: #216194;" target="_blank">affect your local rankings</a> big-time – probably more than they should.  It’s worth taking the time to write good ones.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Some of these examples belong to clients of mine, but most examples I found just by poking around.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Most of these title tags aren’t flawless (not that there’s such a thing as a “perfect” title tag anyway).  And I’m not saying they’re the reason these businesses rank well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But these title tags do seem to pull their weight.  All the businesses rank well as of this writing – usually both in the Google+ Local results and in the <a href="http://moz.com/blog/understand-and-rock-the-google-venice-update" style="color: #216194;" target="_blank">local-organic results</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">By the way, all the title tags are for homepages, not that that makes a difference: You’d go about writing a title tag for a subpage in the same way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Flip through these 50 examples of good title tags, and see how you can make yours a little better:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Do you have any very solid examples of title tags?  Leave a comment and let me know!  (Please don’t include a link; just the name of the page.)</span></div>