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Re: Proof of how important website titles are for SEO

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Post by code_duck »

paraschopra wrote: post #19
code_duck wrote: post #16

It's notable that 'free' and 'free gift' are alleged "stop words", too. I've seen a lot of confusion about that concept in certain communities; some people think that merely including "stop words" will cause serious dinging in search rankings.

Free or free gift is not stop words. "a", "the", "or" are stop words. And any way I don't think this is relevant to ranking of the post.

I think we're talking about different concepts, and yes, inclusion of these words does not appear to have been a factor. What I'm referring to is a belief held by some that words such as 'free' ae interpreted by google as meaning the page is lower quality content, spammy in some way, and is this results in demotion.

Re: Proof of how important website titles are for SEO

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Zakuzaa wrote: post #20

It's surprising that such a baseless article is coming from an A/B testing tool provider. Your article is talking about correlation, not causation. Where's the 'proof'? I'd say you're just trying to milk the controversy around John's article. Nothing wrong in that had you provided an insightful article.

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Re: Proof of how important website titles are for SEO

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Post by paraschopra »

Zakuzaa wrote: post #20

It's surprising that such a baseless article is coming from an A/B testing tool provider. Your article is talking about correlation, not causation. Where's the 'proof'? I'd say you're just trying to milk the controversy around John's article. Nothing wrong in that had you provided an insightful article.

Correlation happens when two events can occur independently. In this case, Google would have never ranked the blog post had I not _written_ the blog post.

But I agree that it is not blog post contains a scientific proof. Sorry if you thought the title sounded like it did.

Re: Proof of how important website titles are for SEO

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Post by joshklein »

It is really frustrating to me that so few rely on their common sense with this topic. As a single page can only have one title, and it is the clearest indicator of what the page is about (it is the TITLE), of course it is important. It is also the main determinant of whether someone will click on your search result after, of course, rank.

But we're also talking about "onpage SEO" here, which is like 1/1000th of what determines if you will have a successful website in search engines (and even less for a successful website, period). You should know the basics, then worry far more about the quantity and quality of links to your pages... and lots of other stuff.

Re: Proof of how important website titles are for SEO

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Post by user24 »

code_duck wrote: post #21
paraschopra wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Free or free gift is not stop words. "a", "the", "or" are stop words. And any way I don't think this is relevant to ranking of the post.

I think we're talking about different concepts, and yes, inclusion of these words does not appear to have been a factor. What I'm referring to is a belief held by some that words such as 'free' ae interpreted by google as meaning the page is lower quality content, spammy in some way, and is this results in demotion.

that's not what stop words are. Search on google for a definition.
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