How does Google treat Dynamic Titles?

[Firestarter-SEO]

Let's say my website can be accessed in only 3 states Colorado, Arizona and Ohio. I want to display different information to each visitor based on where they are located. For this I would also like the title to change based on their location. Not quite sure how Google we treat the title and rank the site.... Any resources you can provide would be helpful. Thanks

[donford]

Google and search engines in general will treat the title as what it sees when indexing the page. There is nothing wrong with changing titles (people do it all the time for testing and optimization) however it isn't ideal to have one page with a dynamic title. By having one page with a dynamic title you are really just confusing search engines, they will have a hard time trying to serve their result page (SERP).

The way us web builders handle the situation you are in is by using parameters. Example:

examplesite.com?state=OH
examplesite.com?state=CO
examplesite.com?state=AZ

These are in essence 3 different pages which would be treated as such for indexing purposes,  content wise it may all be the same but changes with parameters on your index.html / asp / php page. Since you must be using parameters to serve a dynamic title why not include some dynamic content and rank for 3 pages?

Hope it helps,

Don

[Firestarter-SEO]

Thanks Don for your response.

My follow up question would be what to you have has the default index page examplesite.com?

What content is displayed there?