I know you've asked someone else for this answer, but as it's something I think I can help with, I hope you both don't mind my answering it. If I'm trending on toes please let me know so I don't make the same mistake in future - Cheers Christina

Yes you need keywords, and the closer to the beginning of the title the better.

But unless the sentence of the title makes sense to the user then you are likely to have a lower CTR.

Think about your keyword and what the page is about.

As an example my title tag would simple say 'Web Design Company - DR Adept'.

A client (we designed their website) recently employed an SEO who required FTP access or access to the CMS.

We told the client they would need to take full responsibility for any updates the SEO carried out, otherwise, the SEO could send over the changes and we would put them in at no extra cost to the client.

The client didn't want to take responsibility and denied the SEO access to the CMS, and told the SEO to send over the completed work for us to put into the site.

The SEO was not happy with this arrangement, and didn't seem to understand that we needed to trust him before access was would be given at a future date.

Other SEO's have never had a problem with this arrangement, but this SEO claimed what they do is secret and for no one else to see.

SEO want's to proceed, client doesn't want to proceed, we are happy to update the website with the client's approval.  This particular client has a reputation for backing out of things.  Also from the initial client, SEO contact the SEO was ready to update the website within 24 hours.

Are we being unreasonable?

We will certainly look into a staging server.

Although the web developer does some magic and I'm not usually updating the live site.

If your website isn't that powerful then changing title tags can drop the sites rankings for that set of keywords if you are looking for an exact match.

The titles you are proposing seem relevant, and there isn't that big a change so your rankings should be ok.

Before changing title tags I usually test keywords in PPC to see which have better CTRs.  I also pay a lot of attention to the terms my clients use and not what people within my industry use.

If your customers are searching for Online Psychic Readings than the title you have chosen should work well for you.

• Christina