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TRAFFIC advertise yourself better. If you have ever undertaken pay-per-click, you will know the importance of a strong headline with a relevant keyword in the ad. It’s exactly the same dynamic for organic title tags. Your title tag is your advert. For example how about this: “Sports book Free bet bonus | myfreebetsite.com” It’s OK. The title tag says what it is, i.e. something to do with sportsbook betting free bonuses, but it’s not that ‘clickable’, so what about this: “100’s of free bet bonuses from the U.K.’s best bookmakers | myfreebetsite.com” My guess is you will be more inclined to click on the second title tag. This is where your click-through rate should start going up, and following it should be your rankings. Of course, you’ve made a big promise that you’ve got hundreds of free bet bonuses from really good sportsbooks in the UK. If you do, the promise is kept and the user has a ‘satisfying’ experience. It’s amazing how little things like making a title tag more catchy can have such a huge effect on rankings, something I know from experience. search result. As Terry Kyle’s example has shown us, it’s not that reliable. The low road: spamming your way to the top Crowdsourcing As you know from Terry Kyle’s example, there are crowd-sourced services which will click-spam Google. Basically, they work by creating hund