(Entry was posted by Meesum Zaidi on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 07/30/2020).

Using keyword at the start of meta title?

Hi. Is it important to use focus keyword at the start of meta title?

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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

Tim Capper: Your is what users see in search results - so yes it makes sense to include it, but not necessarily at the start.

It needs to engage users to want to click it
Kunjal Chawhan: Yes! The seed keyword for which you want to rank has to be in title if it can be the first keyword then that`s even better from the standpoint of both bots and users
Meesum Zaidi: Understood. I just shifted from Yoast SEO to rank math, but rank math wasn`t giving any warning to use the focus keyword at the start of meta title whereas yoast always gives an error on this point.
Kunjal Chawhan: Meesum Zaidi those are just tools. Follow the best seo practices, don`t let the tool fool you. ðŸ™‚
Meesum Zaidi: Kunjal Chawhan Well said :)