Is website name needed in title?

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Let us consider a website named golygalgawa.com

When writing articles, is it always necessary to use the name of the website in the title for anchor text?

Hope to get some answers.

Thank you and regards.
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    When writing articles, it is a good idea to get your title at some places in the article.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trummer
    You should use it in 1/3 of your anchor text, for 1/3 use LSI words and for the rest use other words like: click here,...
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  • Profile picture of the author ADVERTHEORY
    the site name is already in the link/url, the anchor text wording should be relevant to the discussion
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  • Profile picture of the author Book24za
    Its depends on the objective of a title.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marco Moeschter
    I would't over optimize it. You can put it in the Article if it fits in there but I wouldn't use it in the title again. Google is more and more looking for things which aren't looking natural and having your website name in the titles as anchor text all the time is definitly not looking natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ricardo Furtado
    Ummm...not sure if these are the right answers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alice12345
    For my opinion, it is YES. Include the name of the domain will improve the SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jtraits
    i'd vote for YES , use it. With good combination of SEO keywords , it's more likely to be found
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    • Profile picture of the author MaxGalitsyn
      I guess using just main keywords as anchors is better idea for SEO purposes.
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  • Profile picture of the author tamalanwar
    There are actually 2 different titles.

    #1 is the heading like "My article"

    #2 is the meta title that comes up on search results and social media sites.

    Now for an example the site is Apple. When they create a new product page, they will write this in this as the heading:

    "The revolutionary new iPad!"

    And in the meta title it will automatically set as:

    "The revolutionary new iPad! - Apple"

    So what we get here?

    Unless the article/page is about apple -don't mention the word "Apple" because the article is already coming from apple, so why mention it again?

    Use any SEO plugin that will put your site title say "Apple" next to your meta title.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by Ricardo Furtado View Post

      Ummm...not sure if these are the right answers.
      Probably because most of them weren't answering the right question.

      Tamal has the answer you want.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ricardo Furtado
        Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

        Probably because most of them weren't answering the right question.

        Tamal has the answer you want.
        Hi John.

        How are you?

        Thanks for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it.

        I read the answer given by Tamal , but am not too sure I understand what he has written.

        Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author onpointinfo
    Ricardo...

    Need help, confused a little with your question...so I can best answer the question correctly as possible for you, since you said you do not think you are getting the right answer...

    Maybe your question is not coming out clear and maybe this is why you are not getting the right answer, what is it that you are confused about, maybe give a illustration of the whole html tag that will be used as an example

    1) What are you doing with this article, where is the article being placed at, is it being submitted to an article directory, is it being submitted as a guest post, is it being submitted on your on website and trying to get it to link to another page on your website, please explain where is this article being placed at.

    2) What are your objectives period or trying to do with the anchor...

    3) ( YOUR QUESTION --- When writing articles, is it always necessary to use the name of the website in the title for anchor text?

    This is what is used to create a hyperlink with an anchor text what part of this html tag do you refer it too " in the title for the anchor text "

    <a href="http://www.yoursitename.com">Anchor Text</a>

    Why don't you post here 2 examples of how it would appear one with and one without, this may help me and others understand your question fully...

    If you have clarified this already, sorry, if you are not still clear on this issue, then lets address it again or actually show us the actual link to see what you are trying to do and confused about
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  • Profile picture of the author Ricardo Furtado
    Let me try to explain further.

    Let us say I have a website called...weight loss in 30 days. Com

    So, will the titles of the blog posts for the site include the name of the site as follows...

    1. How to achieve weight loss in 30 days
    2. Weight loss in 30 days is possible
    3. Why worry about your weight when you have weight loss in 30 days?
    4. Have you heard of weight loss in 30 days?

    Trust that clarifies.

    Looking forward to hearing from you all.

    Regards.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by Ricardo Furtado View Post

      Let me try to explain further.

      Let us say I have a website called...weight loss in 30 days. Com

      So, will the titles of the blog posts for the site include the name of the site as follows...

      1. How to achieve weight loss in 30 days
      2. Weight loss in 30 days is possible
      3. Why worry about your weight when you have weight loss in 30 days?
      4. Have you heard of weight loss in 30 days?

      Trust that clarifies.

      Looking forward to hearing from you all.

      Regards.
      If we're talking about a Wordpress site, and the title displayed at the top of the browser or in the headline of a search result, such as:

      "Article Title | Website Name"

      there are two parts to that line, which WP connects together.

      Article Title is the actual title of the article.

      Website Name is a field you fill in when setting up the site or the URL of the home page.

      When displaying an article, WP pulls the title and the site name value and appends them based on your settings.

      Using your example, you would set the site title to "How to achieve weight loss in 30 days".

      Then set up your display to use title, spacer (the _|_), site title.

      Now a visitor will see:

      Article Title | How to achieve weight loss in 30 days

      as will anyone seeing the serp result.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ricardo Furtado
        Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

        If we're talking about a Wordpress site, and the title displayed at the top of the browser or in the headline of a search result, such as:

        "Article Title | Website Name"

        there are two parts to that line, which WP connects together.

        Article Title is the actual title of the article.

        Website Name is a field you fill in when setting up the site or the URL of the home page.

        When displaying an article, WP pulls the title and the site name value and appends them based on your settings.

        Using your example, you would set the site title to "How to achieve weight loss in 30 days".

        Then set up your display to use title, spacer (the _|_), site title.

        Now a visitor will see:

        Article Title | How to achieve weight loss in 30 days

        as will anyone seeing the serp result.
        Thanks for the explanation John.
        I appreciate it.
        Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanLB
    Do you plan on branding this site or is it strictly a keyword flip? If you are branding it, of course you should have the website name in the title of the website - you want people to remember it. If it's a keyword domain you probably still want to anyway to be more relevant for that term.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Originally Posted by Ricardo Furtado View Post

    Let us consider a website named golygalgawa.com

    When writing articles, is it always necessary to use the name of the website in the title for anchor text?

    Ricardo,

    My view is different. I rarely put my web site name in the title of my articles as you have explained. I might do it if the article is specifically about my web site; otherwise, no I wouldn't do it.

    My thinking is this: the article title serves as the attention getter. It's purpose is to stop the reader and get him/her to take the time to read your narrative. If the title doesn't do that, what purpose does the article serve? (no one is going to read it)

    Yes, I agree that your web site name should be found in the resource box or author bio so that others can find your site. But does it need to be in the article title? No, not in my book.

    Since you should be posting your articles on your web site before they are distributed, the article will be linked to your site without having to mess up the title.

    What I'm suggesting may not be optimum for SEO purposes, but then again, I write for the audience and not for the search engines.

    Just my two cents -

    Steve
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