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To increase your website's ranking with search engines, it is very important to use keywords you have chosen in the title of the page concerned. A title tag is of course not the same as a meta description or keyword tag, but it is still a very important factor to consider in the overall optimization of your web page.

Any text you insert in your title tag will be viewed in the title bar of browsers at the time they visit your site. To take advantage of this, plan your keywords and theme carefully. You may also find that some browsers will add their own name as an appendage to your own text.

As one of the most important deciding factors in how search engines chose to rank your page is the actual text you have placed in the title tag, spend time and thought over your choice of words. The major web spiders will normally use the text of your title tag as the text that is used for the title given to your site in the listings.

This text will act in much the same way as a newspaper headline, and draw your prospective client to look at your site, while also setting the theme and topic.

Consider also that if your site has been constructed as a series of sites, or linked pages, then you will need to apply these search engine optimization techniques to each page individually. The keywords used in the text of each page title will be the magnet that draws traffic to the site.

You should ensure that you avoid the use of stop words such as "at", "and" and similar in the crucial first three positions for keywords. Care taken here will dramatically increase your results in the rankings.

Your choice of text should be aimed at producing a unique combination of your chosen keywords, phrases, and content. Ensure that you capture every keyword or phrases you need to highlight for each service, product, or information page.

It is always important to strike a balance between including sufficient keywords in your text, and at the same time avoiding becoming a keyword spammer, which will have a detrimental effect on your page rankings.

A key mistake often made by inexperienced business owners when designing their initial website is to use their firm's name, or business name, in the title of each page. Most potential clients will have never heard of your company before they come to your site, so the chances of them using your company name as a search word are remote.

It is a very good idea to have your business name in the title of your home page, but after that it may well be a waste of important space and keywords to include it on each individual page on the website. By using your chosen important keywords instead, you will find your site will be displayed nearer to the top listings on the search engines.

Search engine optimization is a constantly developing art, and it is important to get advice from people with proven results, rather than waste your time, money, and energy making avoidable mistakes. A little good advice can save a lot of anguish at a later date.