One of the easiest ways to get your website ready for search engines is to give each page it’s own title. The title of the webpage is what you will see in the top left hand corner of your web browser at the top when the page is viewed. This will depict the title of the webpage. Shown below, you can see the title of the webpage in the top left hand corner is "Aleeya dotNet"

The title is also used when you save a page to your favourites. Shown below you will see a picture of where the title is displayed when you save the page (or bookmark it) in your favourites (or Bookmarks – depending on your browser. (Example shown below displays the Favourite list in IE 6.0)

Also, many browsers come with a "Tab" function that will let you view more than one page at a time in the browser by using "Tabs" to display each page on. These browsers – such as Opera and FireFox, will also use the title of the page to display in the tab of the browser. (Example shown below using Opera)

Some web browsers will add the name of the web browser to the end of the title. An Example is shown above using Opera. Although a Shortcut, Bookmark or Search Engine will not see the name of the browser, you may see it in the browser window.

With IE, if you create a shortcut of that page to your desktop (Right click on the page, "Create Shortcut" from the menu), The title is also used there to name the Shortcut. (Example shown below. Although I used IE to create the shortcut, the shortcut actually shows the FireFox browser shortcut. This is because on my computer, I have all shortcuts from the desktop set to use FireFox as the default web browser to open shortcuts. Another trick that will be covered later will be how to make your own shortcut icon so when it is saved in favourites, displayed in a browser or favourites, the icon will show one that you create and personalize instead of the default browser one you have selected on your computer.)

Although the above examples showed the Main Page of Aleeya.net using the Aleeya dotNet title, one of the best ways to optimize your website – as mentioned in the beginning is to have each individual page show its own title – Not just a generic page title for every page. An example of this would be when you go to the SEO, SEF and WordPress page, it shows the title of the page in the web browser and not just the Generic title from the first page of the website: (Shown below)

Now that I have explained where you see the title, in the next few articles, I will be covering where the title is shown in the HTML, how Search Engines use the title, how the default WordPress themes use the title throughout the website, and how to optimize the title so each page shows an individual title.