Comments on: Is this an SERP concern? http://alexking.org/blog/2008/02/10/is-this-an-serp-concern Alex King's blog - software, photography, sports, etc. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:00:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: SpotOn SEO http://alexking.org/blog/2008/02/10/is-this-an-serp-concern#comment-61442 SpotOn SEO Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:17:05 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2008/02/10/is-this-an-serp-concern#comment-61442 The archive pages is a basically a sitemap and is not SEOed. If I understand you correctly, you searched for, “From King Design to Crowd Favorite.” The top two results in Google have almost that exact phrase in their titles tags. That is why they were placed at the top of that SERP. Because of this, it is very important to have very precise title tags. Google only displays between 58-65 characters including spacing. The archive pages is a basically a sitemap and is not SEOed. If I understand you correctly, you searched for, “From King Design to Crowd Favorite.”

The top two results in Google have almost that exact phrase in their titles tags. That is why they were placed at the top of that SERP.

Because of this, it is very important to have very precise title tags. Google only displays between 58-65 characters including spacing.

]]> By: Micah Baldwin http://alexking.org/blog/2008/02/10/is-this-an-serp-concern#comment-61363 Micah Baldwin Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:00:44 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2008/02/10/is-this-an-serp-concern#comment-61363 the first result on google is the article not the articles page. That page is, in essence a site map, that will probably not be indexed by the search engines overly effectively any way. On your article page you have the following meta tag (which is really wasted, antiquated, and could be eliminated, especially if you are using a XML sitemap) so, I think the question is really moot. the first result on google is the article not the articles page. That page is, in essence a site map, that will probably not be indexed by the search engines overly effectively any way.

On your article page you have the following meta tag (which is really wasted, antiquated, and could be eliminated, especially if you are using a XML sitemap)

so, I think the question is really moot.

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