Most of us know what importance Title and Meta Tags hold in terms of on page search engine optimization. For each web page, unique Titles & Meta tags should be used. This helps the search engines to store Titles & Meta tags in their search result lists. Each web page has something different & informative to share. Hence, the Title & Meta tags ought to be designed accordingly.
When designing a Title for a web page, length of title should be kept in mind. Usually a good title is considered to have 25-40 characters (without spaces). Google shows first 66 characters (with spaces) of a title. So it is always recommended to keep Titles’ characters under 66 characters.
Meta tags are the HTML codes that are written into header of a web page. Meta tags specifically consist of Meta description tags & Meta keywords tags, with other Meta Data. Meta description tag is a paragraph describing the page content briefly. It is displayed in search results under the page title. Meta keywords are written for search engines to mention a list of targeted keywords for a web page.
Knowing the importance of both Title and Meta Tags, keeping them optimized and regularly having them tweaked is a recommended practice. The Meta Tag Analyzer at Siteopsys helps analyze the state (optimization level) of these tags, before one may tweak them for further refinement. Keeping the fundamentals precise in any effort is an imperative constituent of heading towards desired goal.
