How important are page titles?

[IT Staffing]

Page titles are very much important in terms of SEO. Google index pages with their title first and after then the content.

[Ventus]

one of the most important part of a website specially to SEO, in visitors sight title of the websites are very important because, through your title you or they can see what's the topic of your post or your webiste/blog.....

on SEO's sight title can help your website to be indexed faster, and also keyword rankings can also increase through your title....

[expresslane]

Non Profit or not, if you want someone to find your pages are get credited for your hard work than you must have your department reconsider. Are you being hindered because of lack of knowledge or is this mandated because of a budget situation? If anyone does SEO work or even looks to assist in some way than why throw away the fundamentals? If you are in for an uphill battle than hopefully your job does not depend on it.

[expresslane]

You have nothing without a title. The title helps with the web indexing and your keywords are spidered as well. The title is given importance for all the appropriate reasons. Have you ever put in a search for a word and then land on a site and can't find it? This is why it is important to know what you are getting before you go somewhere. It is no surprise why the title weighs so much.

[shakilabarbosa]

Title tags are the most important metatags. They are the first thing I read when SE bots crawling a website. To order, you must select the title tags that are relevant to the page content. The relevance is equally important.

[IT Staffing]

When a potential customer types in a search query to find a business or service you provide the search engine trying to match that search with a number of areas on your Website.

For example, if I type in "computer software" the search engine will often look at some key factors.

1. Your URL: You would obviously rank better if your domain was computersoftware.com The url here is relevant to the business.

2. Page Title: If my url is SoftwareCentral.com I want make sure computer software is the first two words in the page title. Example of a page title for softwarecentral.com:

[Click SSL]

you can add up to sixty words in title.You can add your relevant meta in your title.
Please note the keywords you are using are relevant to your business. Your page title can be a phrase or list of targeted keywords separated by comma. You should use no more then 12 words in your page title.

[search4i]

Its an important aspect when working for on page of a website because defining proper title tag which includes the targeted keywords will help your site get indexed soon.

[jamie123]

"Keyword rich" title is backbone of SEO.

[YooHee]

it gives for your visitors, what's the content or what's your website is all about....
not only for that it can also help your website to be crawl, index and cache, and also easily rank on the keyword....

[predeepwithu]

Title is most important because search engines mainly search by the Meta titles.

[fidelisam]

Titles are not only the most important aspect of your onsite SEO, but its also what a potential sees before deciding if he/she will click on your site. I try and treat my titles as ads, properly optimized with my keywords.

[tomkndy]

In my opinion, one of the first things that search engines look at is your web page or web site’s title. I think we all agree on the fact that Web Page titles are one of the most important search engine ranking factors that you have control over but website owners often neglect them.

[waiwa2]

Title is very very important. Google uses titles hugely in determining what site to show!

[Malrgaf]

The title of your web page is probably the most important of all the on-page elements to get right for four reasons:
Algorithmic weighting
Results formatting
Browser usability
Directory submission