Title tag abuse
Recently, I’ve been getting annoyed with virtually every web page on the Internet. My pet peeve is that most sites do not properly format the title tag. The title is supposed to be a descriptive entry of the page you are visiting. The title tag should not include your site name in every page, which is notorious among blogs and news sites. The name of you site should be reflected in the URL, not in every instance of <title>. The date of the article should also not be in the title. The date is the date, not the title. If you do a keyword search by date, the page will still pull up as long as you have the date somewhere in the document. But please, keep it out of the title. Of course, unrelated keywords designed to boost PageRank will possibly get you kicked out of the search index altogether.
I admit, I used to have my name in each <title> tag on my site, but in the past few weeks I removed it for simplicity. This really streamlines the process of adding cruft-free bookmarks on del.icio.us. If you run a web site, I highly encourage you to switch your document titles over to a simplified system.
There has been research conducted by search engine optimization companies, and sites that have simple, descriptive title pages will rank higher in the index on Google.