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Re: Good page titles - friendly SEO

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From: Steven Henderson
Date: Oct 13, 2009 4:10AM

I like your reasoning for putting the company name first on the home page
... I've never thought of approaching it that way exactly, I must admit.

Again, the max length is something else I like to adhere to also, although I
think how the title is written is really a usability issue - so long as
there is one, and it is applied correctly, I think it is fair to say it will
be as accessible as any other - but agree a good friendly title is
beneficial to both users and search engines. That is where I get frustrated
with the plethora of high ranking pages that are what I deem spam-titles
that I just naturally skim past ... perhaps I am more of a cautious user,
but if they are getting high rankings, isn't it then the fault of users that
they're ranking well? Or am I possibly missing something?