In an update to its search documentation, Google has expanded the list of sources it uses to generate title links in search results. Google now includes the og:title meta tag as one of the elements it considers when automatically creating title links for web pages. Screenshot from: developers.google.com/search/updates, August 2024. Title links, which appear as … Read more
Google’s John Mueller offered a surprising explanation about the ranking impact of title tags. His answer challenged the SEO belief that title tags are a critical ranking factor and clarified their actual role. Mueller also discussed the proper use of meta descriptions. Title Elements The purpose of title tags is to provide a general description … Read more
Google’s Office Hours podcast answered the important question of whether it matters if the title element and the H1 element match. It’s a good question because Google handles these elements in a unique way that’s different from how traditional SEO thinks about it. How Important Is It For H1 & Title Tags To Match? The … Read more
With audiences scrolling through content so quickly (on both search engines and social), an engaging headline is the first – and sometimes only – chance you have to capture their attention and get them to your webpage. I’ll admit it: When it comes to consuming online content, I’m typically just scrolling and skimming rather than … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered if it’s a reasonable idea to match the title element to how Google rewrites them in the search engine results pages (SERPs). Someone on Mastodon noticed that Google was changing the title elements on their webpages, most of the time removing the site name from the title. That seem to indicate … Read more
Is it testworthy, or is it untestworthy? There’s a fine line between optimizations and experiments. Testing something is an exercise in curiosity, whereas optimizing a thing is an act of certainty. If we know the outcome of a given activity before we perform that activity, we’re in optimization territory. For example, if you’ve discovered a … Read more
Google updated the Search Central guidelines for controlling how it displays title tags in search. The update didn’t change the guidance itself, but it did make it substantially more straightforward and removed multiple ambiguities in the wording that made it difficult to understand. Google Changes Title Tags Title tags are meta elements whose purpose is … Read more
As the most visible component of Google’s search results pages (SERPs), page titles are thought to carry significant weight as a ranking factor. Is it possible to overvalue the impact of your title tags when it comes to improving search rankings? There’s little doubt Google’s algorithm takes page titles into consideration. The questions around page … Read more
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller addresses whether including publishing dates in webpage title tags has any impact as far as SEO is concerned. This topic is discussed during a recent Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout. An SEO professional, who’s working on a website that reports on currencies, asks Mueller if he should include dates … Read more
Let’s take an in-depth look at Moz.com title tags that were re-written by Google, including three case studies where we managed to fix bad rewrites. Source link
