Title
Real Estate
The right to, and the ownership of, property. A title or deed is sometimes used as proof of ownership of land.
A formal document establishing ownership of property.
A legal document establishing the right of ownership and is recorded to make it part of the public record. Also known as a Deed.
Personal Finance
A title is a legal document proving ownership of a piece of property.
If you are buying real estate you authorize a title search, or examination of property records, to insure that the seller holds the title and has the right to transfer it.
In most cases, if you're taking a mortgage to buy the property, the lender will require you to arrange title insurance to protect its interest until the full amount of the loan has been repaid. You may also arrange for your own title insurance to protect you from losing your property if your ownership is successfully contested.
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Consumer Credit
The right to ownership in real estate, which is transferred by a deed. Evidence of ownership in real estate.
- — Consumer Credit Protection Glossary retrieved 2014-05-16
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Mortgage
the documented evidence that a person or organization has ownership of real property.
- — Making Home Affordable Glossary retrieved 2014-05-16
Common Legal Terms
Legal ownership of property, usually real property or automobiles.
SEO / Search Marketing
The text contained between the start and end HTML tags of the same name. This text is associated with (but not displayed in) the web page containing these tags, and is displayed in a special position (usually at the top of the window) by the web browser.
Title text is important because it normally forms the link to the page from the search engine listings, and because the search engines pay special attention to the title text when indexing the page.
Don't confuse this text with heading text within the web page which often looks like the title. Usually this will be rendered either using the HTML heading tags or just rendered with a large font size.
The title element is used to describe the contents of a document. The title is one of the most important aspects to doing SEO on a web page. Each page title should be: Unique to that page: Not the same for every page of a site! Descriptive: What important ideas does that page cover? Not excessively long: Typically page titles should be kept to 8 to 10 words or less, with some of the most important words occurring near the beginning of the page title. Page titles appear in search results as the links searchers click on. In addition many people link to documents using the official document title as the link anchor text. Thus, by using a descriptive page title you are likely to gain descriptive anchor text and are more likely to have your listing clicked on. On some occasions it also makes sense to use a title which is not literally descriptive, but is easily associated with human emotions or a controversy such that your idea will spread further and many more people will point quality editorial links at your document. There are two main ways to write titles and be SEO friendly Write literal titles that are well aligned with things people search for. This works well if you need backfill content for your site or already have an amazingly authoritative site. Write page titles that are exceptionally compelling to link at. If enough people link at them then your pages and site will rank for many relevant queries even if the keywords are not in the page titles. See also: W3C: Title Element Copyblogger: Magnetic Headlines Free meta tag generator - offers a free formatting tool and advice on creating page titles and meta tags. Search Engine Friendly Copywriting - What Does 'Write Naturally' Mean for SEO? Copyblogger: Magnetic Headlines