Should I tweak my titles and descriptions to improve my CTR?
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Improving CTR with title and description tags
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a question from Bangalore um amol asks do title and description tags are they helpful to increase the organic clickthrough rate which will in turn help with better rankings with a personalized search perspective great question uh so many people think about rankings and then stop right there and that's not the right way to think about things you want to think about rankings and then you want to think about maximizing your click-through which means making your title and your snippet very very compelling not deceptive but something that invites the users to click on it because they know they'll find what they want and then you want to think about conversion rates and you want to get good Roi and so title and description tags absolutely can increase your organic click-through rates try to optimize for that because it doesn't really matter how often you show up it matters how often you get clicked on and then how often you take those clicked on visits and convert those to whatever you really want sales purchases subscriptions whatever it is you're trying to optimize for so I wouldn't think about it in terms of uh oh yeah I get more visitors and that helps me terms of personalized search just think about it in terms of I get more visitors and they convert better so do spend some time looking at your title looking at your url looking at your uh your snippet that Google generates and see if you can find ways to improve that and make it better for users because then they're more likely to click you'll get more visitors you'll get better return on your investment
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On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.
Amalve from Bangalore asked:
Are title and description tags helpful to increase the organic CTR — clicks generated from organic (unpaid) search — which in turn will help in better ranking with a personalized search perspective?
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