Got it. Three titles are being discussed, title tag, h1 and page title. Lorrie On 06/23/11 08:29, Patricia Geary wrote: > At 09:18 AM 6/23/2011, lrlaskey wrote: >> There may some confusion here, if I understand the discussion. One >> refers to the sites title, which is typically the same as the domain >> name and is show on every page to let viewers know where they are. The >> second refers t the title of the page itself which describes the page's >> contents. > > The <title> tag defines the title of the document. > > The title element is required in all HTML/XHTML documents. > > The title element: > > * defines a title in the browser toolbar (at the top of the > browser window EXCEPT in IE9) > * provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites > * displays a title for the page in search-engine results > > > The <h1> to <h6> tags are used to define HTML headings. > > <h1> defines the most important heading. <h6> defines the least > important heading. > > Heading tags are used by search engines to identify words which are > more important than the rest of the page text. The theory is that > headings will sum up the topic of the page, so they are counted as > important keywords. > > So if your page is about say the Boone Family Genealogy, that would be > both the title of the page and the h1 tag for that page. I would not > use the domain name for the title of the page. > > Example: My domain name is family-genealogy-online.com BUT I would NOT > want that as the title of my page. I would choose the title and the h1 > tag for what the page is actually about - Little Family Genealogy or > Bayless Family History by Virginia Bayless O'Connell > > As for branding the site, I use the same masthead on all of my pages > which is the site name. > http://www.family-genealogy-online.com/images/leaves-logo2.jpg > > pat >

Yes but it is only TWO. Title tag provides the page title. This appears on the top of the browser bar but is not obvious. However it is name shown in a Bookmark. H1 appears to be a title as it is usually the top line of the text in the page so it very noticeable. Of course you could use h2 or whatever even <b> to show a header. h1 is understood to be important in SEO tagging by search engines. But a Title tag really should be used. And for Genealogy it is good to use the Surname of the site as the first word in Title on the main index page as that appears in Rootsweb listing of the site. As I journey around the web and bookmark pages I am surprised at how many have a Title like "Home" Ron Lankshear -Sydney NSW (from London-Shepherds Bush/Chiswick) try my links http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lankshear/ On 2011-06-24 2:47 AM, lrlaskey wrote: > Got it. Three titles are being discussed, title tag, h1 and page title. > Lorrie