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We’ve been involved in web design for a long time now and we’ve come across some incredibly bad examples of web design by businesses who claim to be professional web designers. Here’s one from a ‘professional’ web designer here where we live.

The blue bar at the top of every browser window is known as the title bar. It displays the text that a designer places in the title tags on a web page.

 Any designer worth his salt will tell you that the title bar is prime property when it comes to achieving good search engine placement. It’s definitely not the only factor in achieving good search engine placement but it is very important.

Any designer worth his salt will also tell you that what you consider to be the title of a page and what should actually appear in that title bar are usually quite different. What should appear in that title bar is a short, well written snippet that includes keywords or keyword phrases that are important to your site and the title bar should change for each and every page on your website.

What shouldn’t appear in the title bar on your website is what you see here - the address of the business.

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