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Re: Good page titles - friendly SEO

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Oct 13, 2009 9:25AM

At 05:31 AM 10/13/2009, you wrote:
>I'm interested in people's feedback on page titles and how when written for
>SEO rankings, affect usability ... my humble opinion is that high ranking
>page titles are generally too long and unfriendly for me as a visual user,
>and wonder if this is even more of a problem for the visually impaired or
>blind user.

Hi Steven

Personally long titles dont botehr me as a screen reader, the more
descriptive the better and I really dont need any company names
cluttering up the beginning of it, its easy enough to find out the
company's name from the site if I need to.

Perhaps its just me but when I search I like the title to
match the content heading it speeds things up for me. When I find
the search item that best describes what I searched for I want to go
to the site and hit the heading tab until I get the corresponding text.

cheers

Geof


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