Nathan Jackson » SEO http://www.njackson.co.uk Website Analyst / Developer Yorkshire Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:10:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Character limits for your title & meta description tags http://www.njackson.co.uk/2010/01/character-limits-for-your-title-description-and-keywords-tag/ http://www.njackson.co.uk/2010/01/character-limits-for-your-title-description-and-keywords-tag/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:14:48 +0000 Nathan http://www.njackson.co.uk/?p=128 Your page title & meta description are what the major search engines use on the SERPS to display each page, and optimising these tags can help clickthrough rates. People may say that the meta keywords tag is important too, but there really isn’t any point in wasting the bytes its written in.

So, try to keep your page title under 70 characters and having the meta description under 150 characters means that on the SERPS nothing will be cut short. Below is a tool that you can paste your titles & description in. Enjoy :)

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]]> http://www.njackson.co.uk/2010/01/character-limits-for-your-title-description-and-keywords-tag/feed/ 0 Some useful SEO / Marketing resources http://www.njackson.co.uk/2009/01/some-useful-seo-marketing-resources/ http://www.njackson.co.uk/2009/01/some-useful-seo-marketing-resources/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:19:58 +0000 Nathan http://www.njackson.co.uk/?p=9 At work I find myself trying to find more and more information about SEO and online Marketing. I don’t consider myself to be awesome at SEO, so instead of preaching I’ll direct you to those who can / do ;) There are many websites that aid me in the daily task of this, most of which that I’ve found by using Google Reader.

First off, Google Reader is one of the most useful tools I use in a day, instead of looking around on the various sites (some which may not have updates), I just subscribe to the various news feeds via Google Reader and every time there’s a new post, It picks up on this and give me a title and a short description of the new news story. If i deem the story interesting, i click the link and there I am…onto the page – awaiting the information overload!

Why search through loads of different sites when you can just get given the latest news from the ones you pick? You’d be silly not to.

So, what you should do is to sign up to Google Reader and subscribe to a few of the following sites: (In no paticular order

If you have anything to add, go ahead and reply in the comments! I look forward to hearing from people.

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