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Re: Title Junk

#71
post #51

This is the exact reason that we had to introduce "og:title" into the Open Graph Protocol. http://ogp.me/ We tried our best to just use but is it so full of junk that it is unusable for Facebook stream stories.

Maybe browsers could use it when available. I use it whenever I can and with good results!

Re: Title Junk

#72

As someone who has about 100 tabs open in Firefox at any given moment, I firmly believe that the description of page content must appear before the title of the website or any other SEO junk in the title. This is what I see in my Firefox tab bar right now: http://imagebin.org/128865 What does "Hacker..." tell me? Or "Timoth..."? On the other hand, "SQL Co..." at least lets me know the page is about SQL. Same goes for…

Safari will strip identical title prefixes in tab names for exactly that case.

Perhaps other browsers should copy this.

Re: Title Junk

#73
To address his original point, this really only matters if you use bookmarking software that uses the "lists of links" model, really...

Re: Title Junk

#74
post #70
post #44

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If anybody wants to know the punctuation symbol that "::" is, it's called Paamayim Nekudotayim, better known in programming as the scope resolution operator. PHP (because of its Israeli roots) calls it by the Hebrew name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator

Apologies for the pedantry I display below, but your comment is so full of errors that I got riled up. Again, apologies, I'm sure you were just trying to add interesting information for other hackers. '::' is not a punctuation symbol, at least not in English. It is two of the same symbol (colon) in succession. Now in Hebrew, it may be considered a single symbol (though a cursory google makes me think Paamayim Nekudot…

No, thank you, I was indeed being imprecise, you are correct that double colon doesn't exist as punctuation in English or Hebrew grammar so it's not a "punctuation symbol". I guess I meant "programming symbol", but it is also used in other contexts such as ratio equivalence in math, or abbreviating analogies e.g. dog:house::fish:bowl. I guess I don't know what to call it, really.

Re: Title Junk

#75
post #41

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What, Gruber used an overly selective example from Apple to prove some point while subtly asserting their superiority? No way!

Or, he just looked around at a few major website homepages, and used them as examples of decent titles. Gruber’s example did a fine job illustrating his point, I thought – I just found it interesting that even Apple, a company known for its fastidious care for such trivial details, has inconsistent titles across its sprawling website(s), and found the inconsistencies themselves interesting, because they illustrate sl…

I apologize for the snark. It was directed at Gruber, not your post. I'm actually glad you pointed out the incompleteness of his example, and the frustration of my post stemmed from how most forget to look for this in every other line of Gruber's writings and suck down the subtle shilling without thinking about it.

Re: Title Junk

#76
post #35

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For my bookmarks bar, I remove the title. http://i.imgur.com/eRjJP.png

How do you accomplish this? Something like greasemonkey? Or a chrome plugin?

When adding a bookmark: delete the "Name" field.

For bookmarks that you already have: right click, edit.

Re: Title Junk

#79
post #15

Trading an SEO advantage for a string to look better in the title bar and in bookmarks seems like a dumb trade.

So how far will you go to screw up your users' experience? Where's the limit?

Forgive me if my sarcasm detector is broken here, but...really? It's a page title. It's not a harbinger of horrible UX.

Re: Title Junk

#80

It is amazingly annoying to users, but the fact remains that crudding up the title tag does actually provide tangible SEO benefits.

> the fact remains that crudding up the title tag does actually provide tangible SEO benefits. Source/study?

experience.
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