Its no secret that page titles are one of the most important factors to a good SEO campaign. I find it very strange that gamers and clans are not taking advantage of SEO and some of the awesome SEO hacks for PhpNuke. First here is some information about page titles you probably did not know!
The Roles of the Title Tag in a Web Page
Title tags play four roles on the Internet:
- First, the title is used by resource librarians, directory editors, and other webmasters when they link to your page. If you present editors with a well written title, your site will be reviewed faster and will get favorable treatment by the editors. If you submit a page with a title like this, "Title Tags - Title Tag Limit - Title Tag - Web Page Title - HTML Title Tags," then you can expect to wait for a review.
- Second, the title is displayed in the search results as the most prominent piece of information available to searchers. Taking the example above, put yourself in the mind set of a search engine user who is scanning the search results. If you see a title like the one above, which is so obviously stuffed with frequently searched keyword phrases, don't you think you would consider that the Webmaster is trying a bit too hard to get your attention, putting search engine optimization far above web usability? We think so.
- Third, the title is displayed by the visitor's browser (most often Microsoft Internet Explorer) in the border of the viewable screen as the visitor is viewing your website. This serves as an anchor so that the visitor knows where he or she is on your website. For this reason, titles need to clearly relate to their page and should include bread crumb or mouse trail information if there is space available. Microsoft's browser, called Internet Explorer, displays the first 95 characters of your title tag. For title tags longer than 95 characters, Internet Explorer will simply crop the tag, as you can see it has done to the title of this Web page.
- Fourth, the title is used by the major search engines as the most important piece of information available in order to help them determine the topic of your page, and thus to determine the ranking of your page in their search results. Given that the title is the most important factor in your page's ranking, it can be very tempting to load the title tag with keywords. For the first three reasons mentioned above, you should avoid the temptation
Note its extremely important that every page has a different title.
I know what your thinking! I can't possibly change the title of every page by hand. Your right! That would literally take the rest of your life. Thanks to the constant contributions throughout the years you don't have to. Montego introduces an update version of the long ago released script Dynamic Titles. If your using RavenNuke you already have montego's dynamic title script installed. If your not this download is available free of charge. Clan Themes has increased our pages indexed by google and yahoo by nearly 5,000 using this one simple technique and you can too.
One of the most important changes made in this update from the very old version was the listing of content in front of the sitename. This gives every page a truly unique title to all of your phpnuke pages. Keep in mind that the first 10 - 30 characters of your page title is most important.
This is an example of a bad page title
PhpNuke Clan Themes! - News - Dynamic Page Titles
This is an example of a good page title
Dynamic Page Titles - News - PhpNuke Clan Themes
However sometimes just that little bit of title is not enough. So to assure you had a truly unique title. Montego decided to use some of the page context also
Dynamic Page Titles - Its no secret that page titles are one of the most important factors to a good.....
For RaveNuke users check these settings in rnconfig.php to toggle
TegoNuke Dynamic Titles on and off
/*********************************************************************************
/* Dynamic Titles Configuration Options
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$useDynamicTitles = TRUE; //Setting this to TRUE will cause RavenNuke(tm) to create Dynamic Titles by module.
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