Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Title Tag in Web Page Ranking: A Comparison of Popular Search Engines

Alireza Noruzi
Scholar of the Dep. of Library and Information Science, University of Tehran, Iran

Mehdi Safari
Encyclopedia Islamica Foundation, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The HTML title tag information describes exactly what a web page contains. Search engines support the title tag and the information in the title tag is searchable by web users because search engines, such as Yahoo and Google, support the TITLE command. The objectives of this study may be expressed in terms of the following:

• to examine the impact of Title tag on page ranking in web information retrieval; and
• to compare search engines.

In summary, the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the title tag in web page ranking.

This is a research in progress.

Keywords

HTML, Metadata, Met-tag, Title tag, Search engines,

Bibliographic information of this paper for citing:

Noruzi, A. & Safari, M. (2006 to appear). "Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Title Tag in Web Page Ranking: A Comparison of Popular Search Engines"., forthcoming. Available at: http://www.nouruzi.itgo.com/webometrics/Title-Tag-Search-Engines.html