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We recommend using <strong>the</strong> following format when writing a title tag:<br />

Primary Keyword + Service Area | Secondary Keyword + Service Area<br />

OR<br />

Primary & Secondary Keywords | Service Area<br />

Best Practices When Writing A Title Tag<br />

1. Make it 100% unique (don’t copy/paste from ano<strong>the</strong>r page!).<br />

2. Keep it under 55 characters (including spaces).<br />

3. Use pipes | <strong>to</strong> separate keywords.<br />

4. Include primary keywords (and secondary keywords, if possible).<br />

5. Include relevant service areas.<br />

Read more about why title tags are important for <strong>SEO</strong> »<br />

STEP 3: WRITE A UNIQUE META DESCRIPTION<br />

Like a title tags, meta descriptions should be unique <strong>to</strong> every page and<br />

entice searchers <strong>to</strong> click through <strong>to</strong> your website. An effective meta<br />

description can increase click-through-rates (CTR). Although meta<br />

descriptions <strong>the</strong>mselves aren’t a really significant ranking fac<strong>to</strong>r, CTR is.<br />

<strong>Web</strong> pages with high CTRs often perform <strong>the</strong> best on <strong>the</strong> web and<br />

dominate <strong>the</strong> <strong>to</strong>p search results.<br />

So what do meta descriptions look like? <strong>The</strong>y’re <strong>the</strong> little two-line<br />

snippets describing what <strong>the</strong> page is about:<br />

Although you see it on SERPs, here’s how crawlers view it on your page:

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