Aleeya dotNet

As Aleeya.net makes the Move from WordPress 1.5 to 2.0, one of the best plugins I have found to help Search Engines, SEO and my site is Dagon Design Sitemap Generator by Aleister. I run this along with Google Sitemaps generator. I link to the Dagon Design Sitemap on my pages in the Sitemap link of the navigation so the search engines will crawl the link of my Sitemap (Google as well as others).

Also, I use Dagon Design Sitemap Generator as a 404 page so when people come to the site if there is an outdated link, they can view all the pages on the site instead of just a page saying its not found. This increases the chance someone will see something else they like as well as a search engine crawling links.

As discussed in The Psychology of Page Titles, The Power of a Title (Tag), and Where the Title is Seen, the title is of a page is one of the most underused part of a website that can be used to improve your listings in search engines. With WordPress, the default for the title is your Blog name. It appears in the browser, every page, and other places listed in Where the Title is Seen.

On the Diabetes Weblog, I am using WordPress 2.0 (beta). The code for the title by default is the same as the one in WordPress 1.5.2:

<title><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

This code will produce these results ( Permalinks are also used in this Blog.)

1. For the Home Page it will show the name of the Blog in the Title: