[xdude]

Title tag is on of those those dinosaurs which has survived from the begin of search engine optimization. It was important for Yahoo Directory and also for Google directory in their eaily days to  the end. But even today All major search engines still use the Title tag as a ranking factor. There are several things you need to consider before settle on a Title for a post or page.
01. It has to be catchy and click baiting as possible. Even thought this has no value as SEO it's the most important thing about the Title. Even if you rank #01 all keywords you want, there is no point if people don't click on it. If your title is not catchy and #2 , #3 sites have better titles then user would simple click those ignoring your site.

02. Unlike years ago, Now there are 2 engines, Google Search and Google Mobile Search. Mobile search uses shorter title. So you need to make sure what shows in desktops and what shows in mobiles. After all you have only about 156 characters to do it.

03. Keyword stuffing in title is taken as bad practice generally but its not same for all niches. Something many doesn't know is Google Algorithm has different subs for different niches depending on competition. All you have to do is doing a keyword search in Google. If there are sites rank in #1 #20 places with same keyword multiple times in keywords then thats a niche Google don't mind it.

04. Main keyword always should be near to begin of title. If you want to promote the brand name or site name as brand it should be in every title too. Like Keyword : SiteName.com

05. Always search Google for the related keyword and check what your competitors has used on titles. That would help you to create a better title.

[rudra]

I also read that title / tag keywords should be more indicative of the broader view / topic of the page and also the points one is aiming to stress. So just using catchy words there but talking about it just with two lines and saying other not directly related things all over the page is bad for getting good semantic signals that i think means relevance.

[xdude]

When it comes to on page SEO Title takes only about 10%. But it's important because it's an indicator of the main keyword of the page. The thing is retentiveness has got less value these days. Keyword density of your main keyword should be less than 2% and better if its around 1%. Having border content gives you better ranking. Now you can't rank well by just writing 400 word well optimized content. So to get better rank you need to do more things. Problem is when you get there how to make people click your site not your competitor.

[humanpuff69]

Title tag is what the page title is and what the bigger blue text in search engine so it is one of the most important tag and it is useful in SEO . Make the title relevant with the content while also making sure thsn your website name is in there

Good example is like "Article Title | Site Name" and that is what most site use

[hamed]

The best effect is on SEO keywords. And also a good template for the site.
During the last few years I've been working on SEO optimization, I realized that site templates are very effective on SEO and can help.
Other points can be found on the site's fast loading / loading speed of the site also has a very positive impact on SEO ranking.
Even SEO will look at the size of the text as well as the size of the big and small text.
It is suggested that newcomers recruit an SEO optimizer for their site or go through SEO optimization classes.

[xdude]

@hamed

Hmm. What you have said is not exactly related to the topic since it's about the Title Tag. Now it's true keywords have a great importance. Like if you sell flowers then the word Flowers and related terms to your business become the most important things. But keywords alone can't do anything. As a matter of fact Google as decreased the value of keywords in SEO. 10 years ago you could buy an exact match domain name and create a site with bunch of 500 word pages and ranked well. You just had to make keyword density is around 10%-15%. I have done that and earn well from born Amazon and AdSense. Then they has realized the problem and fixed it. So today exact name domains have no real value SEO wise. Also Keyword Density should be around 1% for 1000 word article.

Thing about Title tag is it has survived all of these Google purges. And another thing is the your title tag is the first thing visitors see about your site. They decide if they visit your site or not from that. Sometimes people visit 3rd rank site in Google search because it has a catchy title than #1 and #2. Yep having 1 rank for search result doesn't mean everyone come running for your site. You need to makes sure There is very catchy title and description. This is one reason why we should use description tag rather than let Google to do it for you.

[hamed]

@hamed

Hmm. What you have said is not exactly related to the topic since it's about the Title Tag. Now it's true keywords have a great importance. Like if you sell flowers then the word Flowers and related terms to your business become the most important things. But keywords alone can't do anything. As a matter of fact Google as decreased the value of keywords in SEO. 10 years ago you could buy an exact match domain name and create a site with bunch of 500 word pages and ranked well. You just had to make keyword density is around 10%-15%. I have done that and earn well from born Amazon and AdSense. Then they has realized the problem and fixed it. So today exact name domains have no real value SEO wise. Also Keyword Density should be around 1% for 1000 word article.

Thing about Title tag is it has survived all of these Google purges. And another thing is the your title tag is the first thing visitors see about your site. They decide if they visit your site or not from that. Sometimes people visit 3rd rank site in Google search because it has a catchy title than #1 and #2. Yep having 1 rank for search result doesn't mean everyone come running for your site. You need to makes sure There is very catchy title and description. This is one reason why we should use description tag rather than let Google to do it for you.

You have mentioned good and useful points.
if you have little reason to use keywords, then google does not care about the keyword.
as you search results on Google, search results will be displayed according to your country and your city. SEO is very complex and there are a lot of things to keep in mind when typing it.
but in a nutshell, SEO has three things to consider: optimizing the sites layout and the proper domain name for the site title - High and useful content as well as the use of appropriate images - Copyright laws and the like

[xdude]

Actually this is what I was try to explain. "Proper Domain Name for that Site or Title" - This is something totally outdated. They have stopped caring about domains in keyword long long time ago. Now you can buy Pineapple.com and then setup a site targeting "Nuclear waste" and rank top in Google for it. Today, Domain name is all about branding. It has very little SEO value. This is one reason why it's important to stay upto date with search engine optimization concepts and trends.

Also Copyright laws has nothing to do with search engine optimization. It's important for hosting and domain and also for things like AdSense, Amazon affiliates etc. That's inside scope of search ranking. Do a search for Anime and Manga. Most of those sites rank top have content which go against copyright laws.

But again these are genera SEO things rather than related to Title tags.