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Hi to everyone,

Should it be better to exchange element in PAGE TITLE?

Example:
NOW page title is

NAME OF MY WEBSITE - TITLE OF MY PAGE - I.e. Joomla Italian Community - Name of my page.

Shouldn't it better to write:

Name of my page - Name of my Web Site?

If you put in page title the main keywords, google will give more attention to the keyword rather than to the web site brand.
Best Regards
Giubertinik

Interesting post.

I read a post a while back that relates to this and did some digging around to find it:
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1562

Basically these SEO guys are still debating which is best - Site Title or Page title first

http://www.joomlatwork.com/ Has an excellent SEO addon for Joomla
I got the paid one (thier is a free one as well)
And i use it on ALL my joomla sites.
It should be part of the joomla core.

I allows you to make you own title tag for every page, especially the home page

here are a few of its features

The SEF patch extended version offers the following additional functionality which is not available within the free patch:

     * Additional field to put in the HTML title field, separated different from the page title and page header.
      Add 5 custom META tag fields to the Joomla content and menu items;
      The ability to control the settings of the title field (for example if you want to include the site name within each title it's now possible)
      The ability to add the META title field into the html head section
      Better control over the standard META fields: robots, keywords and description
      Control over the Google Cache setting (this allows you to prevent that your documents can be retrieved from the Google Cache)
      Control over the Google snippet settings (this allow you to prevent that Google can show a summary at the search results)
      The ability to dissallow Google to index images on your search for the images search
      The ability to display the Joomla meta generator tag (if you like this)

      Now support static pages
    * When no title is available the sitename can be used as the default title.
      The ability to set http-equiv settings of the documents dates: Last modified settings of document and expires settings for the http cache
      The ability to assign META data to any Joomla URL: thereby supporting third party components with GOOD titles and META data
    * Keywords and multi keyword phrase suggestions for Joomla URL's when you assign META data to URLs.

I actually do the double template thing at www.compassdesigns.net. Cruise around and see how the page titles change...

I agree with everyone - it is up to you as to want you want to achieve.

Without a doubt for the past 8-9 years the most important thing you can do for seo is using the right page titles, which is the only thing that joomla seriously lets us down on.

Personally, I believe that search phrases at the beginning of the title is the most important. The brand name can always be last, because in many cases it will be unique anyway.

I am going to test JPromoter although it concerns me that they do not appear to be using it on their own site (http://joomlaequipment.com/content/view/4/19/) - this one claims does not conflict with any SEF or meta generation components

The other I have just purchased for testing is Joomla SEO patch extended version (http://www.joomlatwork.com/products/components/sef_patch_extended.html) - this one is different because it overwrites some core joomla files. Means for each installation you have do a reinstall of the software after a joomla upgrade - painful I think

Peter

http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/joomla-reviews/review-of-jpromoter-a-joomla-seo-tool.html

How is that for timing

mmm, thats about it apart froma google sitemap...

Yes, from my extensive reading, the concensus view appears to be that there is a "rule of leftness" (and a "rule of topness") for titles, descriptions, page content ie things near the start tend to be given greater weight.   It's certainly been my experience and since we made these adjustments on our own site, we've seen ranking improvements (with no backlink changes during that period)....so to me, that would appear to confirm it.

I posted a hack on joomla.org a while back about hacking your 1.0.x code to give you full title control (not just reversing the page title - sitename order) which can be found here http://www.salsainternet.com.au/joomla-seo-page-title-uses-title-alias.html.   There are much nicer, more packaged solutions (joomlatwork is one that many have recommended) and ARTIO SEF does this now in the latest version.....but if you just want a quick tweak, then the link above might help.