Briefly Technical

December 22, 2010

Page Titles: Usability & SEO

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the TITLE element in HTML. John Gruber advocates a fairly rigid system of source and page topic in the TITLE.

Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Journal advocates a more flexible system in which you don’t always need to include the source.

One thing is for sure, however, the title tag is not a glorified breadcrumb – keep it simple.

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