Do you know any hacks with title tag SEO for increased rankings and traffic?

Nowadays, title tag SEO is still an essential part of the modern concept of the Search Engine Optimization. Nevertheless, most recently I recognized that a significant number of related studies had been somehow decreasing lately. And even despite many people taking a lot of experiments with title tag SEO has successfully proved that their changed titles had delivered a definitely measurable progress in their page rankings on the SERPs.

And here we are coming to the point, yet too often neglected by the lion’s share of online business owners, as well as novice webmasters. In fact, title tag SEO (if done right) can bring practically every website a great influence over CTRs (click-through rates), in turn giving a spur to the main flow of organic traffic. Of course, any measurable traffic gains via higher CTR can result in the actual increase of your page rankings only under certain circumstances.

 So, how to get a double benefit? Let’s delve into the subject of title tag SEO. You are free to try these hacks, and of course, not all of them will work on your website for sure. Just try one of these and get the idea of where to start in your next experiments with title tag SEO.

Numbers

Sometimes, under certain circumstances, many websites can see a significantly higher click-through rate by including numbers in the title tags. The trick is that numbers are more likely to make your web page stand out of the competition on the search results. Simply because the numbers are ultimately specific things that are often caught by the user’s eye among those immense masses of different information.

Dates

If you are using WordPress, here is the next hack with title tag SEO to work perfectly well for your website. I recommend making use of the Yoast plugin on WordPress to update every title tag with a corresponding date property. And it works simply be leveraging your title tags with month-to-month or year-to-year in a self-driven manner. Once again - this “hack” is not right for all cases, but for some individual queries, it proved to perform pretty well.

Length

Apparently, we see longer title tags more often. But what if making them shorter can probably deliver a quick boost in rankings? If your title tags are too long, it may be hard for us to really understand what it is about. That way, you are likely to try reading it once again. So do the search engines! That’s why your winning title tag should have an optimal length within 50-60 characters, rich with top keywords actually used by the real searchers.

CTA

Considering that any call-to-action words and phrases are not often found via the keyword research, it’s a great idea to use them and help people click. I mean using the most intuitive action verbs (like go, find, download, watch, learn, etc.), because they are likely to deliver something more exciting, beyond the searched keyword itself. That way, giving your visitors such “little extra” can significantly increase your click-through rates.