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SEO as Usability ~ Title Tag Overload

2 May 2007 5 Comments

Being an SEO professional, I have seen it all in the name of search optimization: keyword stuffing, link farms, hidden text, showing different text for a search engine as opposed to an actual user, and lastly, the title tag overload. What is the title tag overload you ask? It’s the theory that if I mention a word enough times, I win at SEO.

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  • said:

    Hey Brian,
    Thanks for linking and posting this on your site. Did you have a particular point you agreed with or just liked the content in general – I’d love to know.

    Best,
    Jeff

    - 9 May 2007 at 1:23 am
  • (author) said:

    I agreed with your post. I still get amazed by the amount of keyword stuffing and unrelated keywords I find in the title tags when i go to optimize a site. I also agree on the all CAPs, makes me want to skip over them too..
    -B

    - 10 May 2007 at 5:33 pm
  • music said:

    very interesting.
    i’m adding in RSS Reader

    - 7 January 2008 at 8:28 pm
  • music said:

    What do you mean ?

    - 31 January 2008 at 1:12 am
  • RV Dealer said:

    Its quiet interesting info about seo

    - 20 August 2008 at 8:09 pm

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