OK, this is for all those people I keep telling about TITLE tags.

For search engines, it is important for categorisation, and for their understanding of the context of your page, for your to select an appropriate TITLE tag. It is one of the most important things you can do to help your content-rich site get recognised by Google and Yahoo, and the other engines. Please, please, please do not underestimate the importance, or it may well see your site rank far lower than it would be if it were well titled.

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I have noticed that over these past few days, the Google dance has been in full swing. There have been notable changes to both the Google Directory and backlinks have been updated.

I was very pleased as the ffnet.org backlinks went from 245 to 817, which I believe to be very good indeed, considering my sites youth.

However, the main subject of this post is about the bizarre Google directory update that has (is?) taken (taking?) place. I went on the Google directory yesterday to see if it had been updated, having read from someone one SEOChat that it had. I immediately noticed that the PageRank detail offered on the Google Directory was indeed changed. I also noticed, however, that my site (which was included in DMOZ) was not in the revised Directory.

This troubled me somewhat, but I also noticed other recently accepted ODP sites were not included. I thought very little more of it, putting it down to some kind of roll-back. Today, though, I looked at my SERPs and discovered that my sites description was that given by DMOZ. My site also shows up in a search for the domain name on Google Directory. Entirely bizarre!

Anyone have any thoughts / theories?

Thanks for visiting the all new Secret Diary of Alex Sains. It’s very blue and white, and is in some ways similar to the original design. I’m going to keep that site up for archive and G purposes. You’re free to visit it, though there’s very little point.

There’s very little else to say, but I will post some more stuff here soon just to let you know what’s going on, etc.