Make sure your articles appear high up in search engine results and yield lots of click-through traffic
Title tags play a crucial role in where your articles appear on search engine results - and we all know news publishers want to be as close as possible to the top of the pile. A sure-fire way of getting those clicks is writing a title that Google likes.
However, Google is now ramping up its capacity to rewrite titles which it deems to be missing information or could answer the query better. This process can result in significantly stunt click-through rates.
If you want to avoid the same fate, it might be best to learn how to write the perfect title tag for Google, as detailed by media expert Peter Houston, writing for Spiny Trends.
He writes that the most effective titles will: match search intent, be relevant to the page content, and be descriptive within character limits.
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