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Appropriate title length

July 31st, 2008

Theoretically there is no limit to how long a title can be.  However both search engines and browsers truncate long titles to make their display consistent.  W3C state that the length of the title tag should, ideally, be 64 characters including spaces, or less.

  • Google truncates at 66 characters or the last complete full word.
  • Yahoo truncates at 129 characters.

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Should I have a .com or a .co.uk domain

July 31st, 2008

If I’m trying to target the UK market should I buy a .co.uk or a .com domain?  The simple answer is that, all things being equal, it doesn’t really seem to matter, despite what you may hear or read!

A .com website that is correctly optimised will still achieve good listings in google.co.uk.  If you have a .co.uk and your site isn’t optimised at all, the chances are you won’t have any listings in google.co.uk.

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Stop words

July 29th, 2008

Avoid using stop words in your title.  Words such as a, an, and, but, I, in, it, of, on and the are commonly words that are ignored by most search engines.  Where possible include REAL words – by doing this you will fare better in searches.

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