Title tags are one of the important
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Russ Jones This is things believe but cant prove. Show the rest of the comments Eric Ward Again, circle of trust trumps poor directory structure. If you dont have keywords within your content it can become hard to rank for those terms. Search engines arent stupid though. Natasha Robinson In Google Local listings, Ive actually found some sites ranking for words that only appear in ALT tags and Image titles of that site.
My speculative side says that its to counteract the problems caused by increased trust filters to assist sites in ranking for their brand names. That said, think having page named something that clearly says to users this is about the topic your looking for! help increase CTR for the ranks you do have. Walking under ladders, breaking mirrors and stepping on cracks probably has more influence on your SERPs than validation. Older documents with good link equity signal credibility. Validation zealots just plain freak me out. Lucas Ng aka shor Accommodation? Accomodation? Acommodation? Acomodation?
Even more worthless for misspellings. Chris Boggs Even Matt Cutts said this helps. Eric Ward If the document also sends other algorithmic signals of quality. Scottie Claiborne Using keyword in the anchortext. Domain age is more important to have unique meta description tags on every page. Font styles and emphasis would ideally be an objective judgment on the importance of word or phrase.
Jonah Stein Google ignores them Scottie Claiborne Useless, IMO. HTML Validation of Document to W3C Standards Validation of HTML page code as per the W3C consortium, an authoritative body on the standards of webcompatible code Slight Importance High Consensus Barry Schwartz Only Yahoo and doubt they use it much. Show the rest of the comments Barry Schwartz Important for the site command to return unique pages, outside of that, it is easy to add, so do it.
However, placing more importance on specific documents will increase its overall importance and ranking. Todd Malicoat Using the RIGHT combination of keywords is more important than repeating the same word which likely HURTS more than helps these days. Roger Montti aka martinibuster One can cite patents to justify saying Google can detect patterns of paraphrased content.

