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36 Comments on Do You Use Dynamic Page Titles?
Still learning about this stuff. I will book mark and following the comment thread. Thank you for sharing.
I did not really understand all of this and could use some more information on the subject.
Makes total sense.
So many things to manage....need to have the right team to do it all.
So far, I know the problem but not a solution that does NOT include the IDX vendor who wrote the blog.
This blog is a sales AD not an informational story.
Great advice on page titles. This is one of the most overlooked items by real estate agents.
Does the techie world ever stop spinning? Just when I think I have a handle on one area, another pops up. :)
Parking for this one. Although many seem to be jumping on the bandwagon, the one naysayer has been overlooked. Hmmm.
It's true that Weigand has built their custom title tags so that they're over the 65 character limit. Definitely less than optimal for Weigand. This is something that we could have pointed out in this post.
The search-friendly URL debate is interesting one, and yet still a debate. Some claim that they URL must appear to be static and contain keywords, Matt Cutts has said as much. On the other hand, there is also some evidence, via SEO forums, that a URL containing what appear to be dynamic variables may suggest to search engines that the content on the page is "dynamic" and should be crawled more frequently.
While custom results pages provide the option of displaying keywords in the URL, property details pages, such as the one used in the example above are going to use a dynamic vs. static URL standard.
We welcome a debate over IDX features. While it's true that we sell a product, IDX Broker, to address some of these SEO issues for Agents, we are also very passionate about that product and what can be done with it. We hope that this this passion for knowledge will contribute to a community that is open to debating these features, whether or not the feature can be found in our product. If the feature is not found in IDX Broker, and it makes sense to add it, we want to do that.
Thank you again for your feedback. We will look into ways to incorporate, or at least explain the character limit to customers.
I am going to watch your blog because I need to get up to speed on this issue.
It's kind of a no brainer when you think about it... it's the title!
The more sophisticated the Internet gets, the more techie stuff there is to learn. I wish it came naturally!
I have seen other tech savvy realtors changing their blog listing names and now I understand why. Thanks for explaining it - and thanks to others for the reminder about the 65 character limit.
Here is a screen shot of my Macbook. It doesn't have anything at the top, so the example you gave doesn't work for Macs. Even though this is on the AR post, it was the same when I googled both your 65+ character title and just the address. Even so, I understand what you are talking about.
I really learned a lot regarding Dynamic page titles from your blog and comments. I'm hoping to implement what i learned by recreating titles for existing items. I would really like to reblog you blog to my community of real estate marketing providers. How do I get permission to do this.
Suzanne Feinberg
The buyer searching for a 5 gig black iPod free shipping is much more likely going to buy than someone searching just iPod. Same is true for the surfer looking for information on 100 Main St Anytown, your state.
Great information. I've got this one tucked into my SEO file and definitely will revisit all of my website pages to make sure a dynamic title exists. I vividly recall speaking to my website support team member tell me not to worry about the page title, that it's ok as it is (same title on EVERY page!). Ugh! I just keep on learning with AR. Thanks for a great post.
Any chance that you'll add a bit of PHP code to demonstrate how dynamic page titles should be implemented? I'm interested.
Excellent post with excellent points. Thanks
Thanks for the post and the great comments. This is good stuff.
This is so funny I was playing with these this morning and thinking about which way was best. And then I thought, Active Rain IDX Broker and here is my answer. Awesome.
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