Website title question
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Say you have a website url of a rather competitive keyword phrase, would it be beneficial for me to go ahead and name my site title the same as the url? And also should my site title go through every page, or should i consider having slight variations throughout the pages?
for example: page title | site title or page title| slight varation of title on sub page?
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to further expand on the question a bit also, if my google places has the company name on _there - would it be effective to go ahead and use the company name in my site title? _
_Also if i have the main keyword in the breadcrumb as the home, does that effect my SEO credibility if it shows up on all the pages? _
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THanks for the replies.
Basically The Clients Company name is ARS Inspection Services and the domain we have is houstonhouseinspection.com
Home Inspector and Home Inspections are the main things searched for.
I'm just struggling with how to position this correctly to maximize this long term.
I've done more on a software front than i have the full onslaught of SEO. I'm really trying to grasp the correct way to structure this site so that it doesn't die a quick death.
It's such a long domain name, that i tend to get worried about having super long urls for services(standard section/ specialized) and service areas...(houston and surrounding cities)
Currently i have services as houstonhouseinspection.com/inspection-services/general-services and same thing but /specialized-services
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Yes I agree with Broadbeach and to be honest unless you are already an established brand I would focus the primary keyword at the beginning of the title and add your brand on the end. Making sure to vary throughout your pages.
Some people would say to go for a keyword rich domain name, but ideally you should be looking at a long term strategy on how you want to build the business. The work you put into promoting your business with both online and offline promotion will gradually increase the brand name traffic.
Structure your URL in away that shows the brand name then the keyword(S) you are focusing on:
http://www.brand.com/key-word-one
http://www.brand.com/key-word-two
Make sure that you are not forcing keywords in the URL and that is relevant to the title and page content.
Hope this helps.
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Hi tgr0ss,
If you chose for website URL that consists of keywords, it still carries some ranking weight (not much though, and it will decrease over time). Myself, I prefer the company name as the URL, as it good for branding and it doesn't look like you are trying to force your rankings to go higher.
In regards to your titles, each page should have an unique title tag. As you are pro member, you can see in your campaigns that there are "Duplicate Page Title" errors. What I prefer is the following structure:
Keyword 1 | Keyword 2 | Company Name
Keyword 1, Keyword 2 | Location | Company Name
And be sure to keep the length of the title tag under 70 character, so it won't be shortened in the search results.
Best of luck!
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