Question regarding Page Titles

What if you wanted to optimize your site for a few competitive keywords in your local market, for example, I am Oxford MS Real Estate which is a competitive keyword in our market. To optimize and keep a good ranking I need an SEO that has had experience doing what I am about to mention and a yay or nay opinion from someone who has tried it or HAS NOT tried it because it wouldnt work.

The question is:

If I wanted to optimize my site for the keyword phrase "Oxford MS Real Estate" , my idea is to make the home page title as follows: Oxford MS Real Estate|Homes|Condos

What if I made another content page with an article and made the page title to be: Oxford MS|Real Estate|Lafayette County Listings|MLS ??

These are hypothetical Page Titles. The main question here is would I have a good chance of ranking for both pages if the keyword is competitive but not extremely competitive OR is it a bad idea to do this because it looks too much like spam?

Need some good advice!!

Much appreciation in advance.

You wont get a yeah or neigh answer and anyone who gives you one will be blowing smoke.

Your individual site variables will greatly influence whether or not this will work.

If you get quality links into both pages then there is a very good chance they will both rank very well for those keywords.

If you get far more links to one than the other, then you will see lopsided results, if you get no links to either then they both may not rank.

depending on the authority of your original site they may rank just by being a page on it.

Hi,

In my opinion it won't be considered as spam. but dont go more than 67 characters for your title because google won't read further that!

The title is a big factor in SEO be sure to put the best title for every single page of your website.

bil

Sorry Googler,

I left out one thing. I was asking this question assuming "All Else Constant" I understand quality backlinks, deep links, outbound inbound etc. Tags, etc. I am just asking if this way of page titles would be a good strategy assuming I did have everything else completely optimized (impossible to have it completely optimized) but you get my drift?

I don't see why they both wouldn't do well with the same amount of backlinks. Obviously, the one with "Lafayette County Listings" will do better for Lafayette keywords.

Concentrate on what title best suits that page. Sometimes it's more efficient concentrating on specific seperate keywords for each page instead of spreading the energy for one keyword over 2 pages.

When doing keyword research it would be better if the keyword that you will target has high traffic but not too competitive. It's very hard to target keywords that has high traffic but also very competitive.

It becomes worthless,

Because people not going to use that keyword for search and very easily you can be on top, high traffic means in terms of visibility for the particular keyword.

Don't feed any misinformation.

So where's the misinformation with my reply. I just say that it would be better to target keywords that has high traffic but not too competitive.

If the keywords that you will target is too competitive it takes more time. Than targeting a keywords that has also high traffic but not too competitive.