: Highly SEO optimised forum posts Given the following forum post: Basics of how internals of Construct work I've used GameMaker in the past. And I know some C++ and have used a
Given the following forum post:
Basics of how internals of Construct work
I've used GameMaker in the past. And I
know some C++ and have used a few 3d
engines with it. I have also looked at
Unity, though I didn't get too much
into it. So I know my way around
programming etc...
My question is, how does construct
work internally? I know it allows
python scripting, which itself is
"technically" interpreted, though
python is pretty fast as far as being
interpreted goes. But what about the
rest? Is the executable that gets
cre...
The forum software will take the first 150 chars of the first post as the page meta description, and the title will be the thread title. All ok. So in Google it will appear as:
Basics of how internals of Construct work
I've used GameMaker in the past. And I
know some C++ and have used a few 3d
engines with it. I have also looked at
Unity, though I didn't get too much...
www.domain.com/forum/basics-of-how-internals-of-construct-work.html
Now the problem is (not so much with this thread, but other ones) is the first 150 chars don't always create the best meta description. Is it worth my time to cherry pick threads and manually set their description/title tags so they read like:
Internal workings of Construct 2
Events aren't converted to any other language. The runtime is a standalone compiled EXE application, which is optimised and actually very fast. Your events...
www.domain.com/forum/basics-of-how-internals-of-construct-work.html
The H1 on the page is still the original title, but we have overridden the title and description to look more friendly on search results.
Is this advantageous forgetting the obvious time cost?
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Yes, it's worth your time to write optimized titles and meta descriptions or to have someone else write them. Titles are probably the single most important ranking factor. Meta descriptions aren't counted as a ranking factor directly in google, but are very important to click-through rate, which is a ranking factor.
When writing titles and meta descriptions, don't just try to squeeze as many keywords in there as possible. Use keywords to explain what is on the page and why someone should click to read it. I ike to keep my titles around 55-65 characters and my meta descriptions around 145-155 characters. I also use pipelines (|) in titles to approximate site hierarchy.
Titles are one of the more important on-page elements and are, in my opinion, worth trying to get as accurate and relevant as possible. It does, however, look like the titles are already relatively optimized in terms of your target audience - they reflect the subject matter in the way your audience would search for it.
Meta descriptions you can leave out (like SE), as if they don't match the query, then Google will just cherry-pick the best matching content that matches.
So it becomes down to and effort/outcome issue - and I'd suggest that you could end up down a rabbits-warren of over-optimization in this case.
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