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Re: Good page titles - friendly SEO

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From: Steven Henderson
Date: Jan 20, 2010 3:45AM

I totally agree about taking the domain name or company name into account,
Chuck. I generally do this for familiar searches however, where I don't have
sufficient experience to choose one over another using those criteria.

That said, I actually do prefer to see a company name in a title for the
same reasons, but generally if it is company I am not familiar with.
Otherwise, I find myself manually removing the company name from bookmarks
that I make from a website regularly (likely because I will have a folder
named accordingly, anyways). I particularly use domains to filter results
that I will never click on, such as those annoying listing directories
(particularly the ones that dynamically capture your search query to appear
relatively useful) ... who wants to return a search listing from a search
listing? Kinda defeats the point .... thankfully, once you become familiar
with the main ones, you can dismiss them in an instant. I would prefer them
not to be listed at all though.

Steven