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On our website, the front page is a blog interface that we use to display important info. We also have the full blog available to read by clicking the blog link. Apart from the important front page stuff, we are starting a daily posting of interesting historical data for that day and corelating it to one of the products in our online store, with links etc. My wife insists that we use the same blog title every day for these posts, I disagree. Any thoughts?
example- "There's a [my product keyword] for That!" or should I add the date at the end of the title to differentiate it? Does google care, or does it see them as different posts? There's no harm in using "There's a [my product keyword] for That" it's quite catchy too,it's not duplicate as you are using a different word within it every time, and I would hope unique content for each page too. Linking back to the sales pages too, which is exactly the way I would do it from the blog.
Is it good or bad for SEO? That entirely depends if you have done your keyword research and KNOW that people are searching that exact term, which I somehow doubt
Having the keyword at the start of the title is best, also There's, a, for, and that, are all a bit of a waste of the title tag unless you are after an exact match.
As with all things SEO it's a balance of what sends Google* the right signals and what works for you and your site visitors.
*other search engines are available
Always use unique title in pages. Quote: Originally Posted by aruninfo 
Always use unique title in pages. Why?
The thread creator is looking for some advice and some details would be helpful. Steve, I am using the same title everyday. I just inserted {product name} so I did not appear to be promoting. If you look at my latest blog post, it hasn't changed, yet the content is updated every day. My question really boils down to the fact of content versus title. The links in the content are different each day but over time there will be hundreds of posts with the same exact title. The wife thinks it's okay as our facebook updates actually show the new content and picture. I just don't want google to start skipping this important(SIC) info. Casper - My gut feeling is it would be a bad thing to have multiple posts with the same title. Just too easily perceived as duplicated content (both by Google and by readers).
If you want the same thing to apply to every post make that the title of the blog, or title of a subsection of the blog that contains only the posts of that genre... but the nature of a post title suggests it is expected to be different with each post. Assuming it'll be understood that it's differentiated by the text that follows may not always be safe. Rob, I will follow your advice and perhaps add the date to the post title. On a similar note, I noticed something strange last night with the titles. I use the Platinum SEO plugin for WP, and the title/description of the posts that I insert into the plugin for that post are what show up in my facebook page when I link to the blog post. It doesn't use the default title on the top of the post. Wonder which one Google sees.... Any thoughts? Just do a few searches for sections of your text in inverted commas, the title as Google sees it will show in the serps Steve, looks like it only took the first three entries into Google, will continue with unique titles from now on. Thanks to all for the advice.
example- "There's a [my product keyword] for That!" or should I add the date at the end of the title to differentiate it? Does google care, or does it see them as different posts? There's no harm in using "There's a [my product keyword] for That" it's quite catchy too,it's not duplicate as you are using a different word within it every time, and I would hope unique content for each page too. Linking back to the sales pages too, which is exactly the way I would do it from the blog.
Is it good or bad for SEO? That entirely depends if you have done your keyword research and KNOW that people are searching that exact term, which I somehow doubt
Having the keyword at the start of the title is best, also There's, a, for, and that, are all a bit of a waste of the title tag unless you are after an exact match.
As with all things SEO it's a balance of what sends Google* the right signals and what works for you and your site visitors.
*other search engines are available
Always use unique title in pages. Why?The thread creator is looking for some advice and some details would be helpful. Steve, I am using the same title everyday. I just inserted {product name} so I did not appear to be promoting. If you look at my latest blog post, it hasn't changed, yet the content is updated every day. My question really boils down to the fact of content versus title. The links in the content are different each day but over time there will be hundreds of posts with the same exact title. The wife thinks it's okay as our facebook updates actually show the new content and picture. I just don't want google to start skipping this important(SIC) info. Casper - My gut feeling is it would be a bad thing to have multiple posts with the same title. Just too easily perceived as duplicated content (both by Google and by readers).
If you want the same thing to apply to every post make that the title of the blog, or title of a subsection of the blog that contains only the posts of that genre... but the nature of a post title suggests it is expected to be different with each post. Assuming it'll be understood that it's differentiated by the text that follows may not always be safe. Rob, I will follow your advice and perhaps add the date to the post title. On a similar note, I noticed something strange last night with the titles. I use the Platinum SEO plugin for WP, and the title/description of the posts that I insert into the plugin for that post are what show up in my facebook page when I link to the blog post. It doesn't use the default title on the top of the post. Wonder which one Google sees.... Any thoughts? Just do a few searches for sections of your text in inverted commas, the title as Google sees it will show in the serps Steve, looks like it only took the first three entries into Google, will continue with unique titles from now on. Thanks to all for the advice.