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Re: Good page titles - friendly SEO

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From: Steven Henderson
Date: Oct 14, 2009 6:50AM

Hi Geof,

When you say you 'like the title to match the content heading' do you
actually find that to be the case of most websites? As I don't recall that
to be the case and am presently of the opinion that would be duplicate
content (in so far as sifting through all the other content on a given page,
that also wants my attention).

In your case, if I were to place the main heading (which is perhaps
'similar' to the page title) at the top of the page, would it really be
inconvenient that it differ from the title? And what if I place a few quick
links above that too, one of which linked to the main content? In the case
of a heading being identical to the page title, would you not prefer that
there was no heading and could get straight to the main content directly
(effectively treating the page title as your page heading)?


Steven