Great post!  I'm off to check my titles now!

James,  Thanks for the great info.  Didn't understand the reason to limit the number of characters.

Thanks so much - good info to know.

Thanks for the good tips James. I need to look over my website for improvements.

Tina,

Wonderful, I am glad you are going to go through your titles. It definitely helps as you can see some great results.  Remember if a page is already doing great in Google (top 10 result) be careful with your changes :)

Excellent advice.  I'm guilty of the keyword stuffing, but I'm coming up 2nd on the prime search term and I'm afraid to mess with anything.  The last time I modified my page title, it took weeks to get back on page 1.  Your thoughts on that???

Margaret,

If your page is already coming up I would probably just leave it alone :)  It's the pages that have not gotten the results you are looking for that I would put the time into changing.  I hope that helps.

James,  Thank you for this information.  I actually knew this already and am in the process of working into my website revamp.

Thanks for the info! I need all the help I can get. It's time to check my titles.

Lissa,

Great, I look forward to hearing how changing your page titles improved your results.

Marc, thanks for checking in.  We certainly can all keep going after improvements in our pages :)

very nice thank you... I'll going to talk with my website person

Rick

I was not aware of the symbols.  I never thought about that.

Thanks for the info....always great to learn something new.

Kay, thanks for stopping by, I am glad it could help.  Please feel free to check out our BLOG with all of our posts at www.internetrealestatesuccess.com :)

You always explain these tips in ways normal people like me can understand.  Off to check my tags

Thanks Judy! That's the goal, I really want it to make sense so everyone has the chance to succeed.  I look forward to hearing about your progress.

Ok I spoke too soon- where do I find the page title on my web site.  Since I use a canned program advanced access, do I not have them. 

Judy,

I believe advanced access allows you to change them as well yourself.  If not though, I know one of our coaching clients just e-mails them new pages and new page titles and they change them for her.  You just have tell them what you want on your page titles :)  I hope that helps.

I will point out that, although Google, Yahoo etc. do not appreciate or reward excessive use of symbols, and excessive use of symbols tends to scream "I'm just a big spam/knockoff site", sometimes a symbol or two can help separate you from the pack...every little bit counts.  This is especially true in markets where competition is fierce over a limited number of keywords/phrases.  We've been experimenting with our clients some very conservative and only necessary use of symbols - and it does seem to help.  If you get a list of search results where the first 3 words of everybody's title tag is "virginia real estate", for example, a well-place symbol or two (kept within the very core ascii character set), helps draw the eye towards your title, vs. the others.  At this time, Google's ambivalent towards minimal character use, Yahoo and MSN like it less...so use only when it really would help.

Kelly

KME Internet Marketing (http://www.kmeinternetmarketing.com)

South Riding, VA

Kelly,

I certainly agree that using symbols should be done sparingly.  They don't provide much help as far as your position so using them sparinlgy is most certainly recommended :)

I need to review m titles.  I think I am OK but some may be the same

It is very hard to keep up with Goolge. Thanks for the tip.

Bonner

I feel like im just repeating what everyone else has said here, but thanks for the great tips - I hadn't thought about the page titles, and I am looking for more ways to have my sites show up on google.  Thanks!