Tripping versus Tripping.com in title tags?

[seospeedwagon]

Hi All,

We had a quick question regarding the construction of title tags throughout our site (yay for optimizing!).

We were wondering what is considered best practice or what we should be considering when we're deciding how to end our title tags - basically, it's between Tripping and Tripping.com.

For example:

This is the content | Tripping

OR

This it the content | Tripping.com

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Bianca

[retailgeek]

If a user types "tripping.com" into google, Google is going to consider it a "URL Search" and almost certainly return your site first.

You probably need more SEO help on the "Tripping", so in addition to giving you extra characters, that would tip the scale to not including the .com for SEO considerations.

If you are investing in creating "Tripping.com" as your brand, and putting "Tripping" in the title tag without the .com would cause confusion, then I'd opt for the user experience over SEO consideration.

[NakulGoyal]

Biance

I would add the .com in there for Branding reasons. However if your page titles and way over 66 characters, I'd leave the .com alone (not recommended). The question is, are you building your brand as Tripping or Tripping.com ? That should help answer the question pretty accurately :).

I hope this helps.

[Francisco_Meza]

I say to try to get the maximum amount of characters in there 1st. I would probably drop the .com. As for ranking factors, symbols are considered spaces (except for the underscore _)

[AgentsofValue]

Hi there,

Having .com or not having .com on the title do not really make that much of a difference. If you think you have a unique title, then the best thing to do is to just optimize that title without the .com

For example. Amazon.com has the .com on their title, but Google, Yahoo, Ebay do not have. But they are all branded names just the same. So i think its a matter of branding your title or name.

Hope that helps!

Cheers!