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() ) { ?> » 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:
2. For a Category, it will show the Blog Name and the Category in the Title.
3. For an Archive, it will show the Blog Name, the Year and the Month
4. For a Page, it will show the Blog Name and the Page Name:
5. For an individual Post it will show the Blog Name, "Blog Archive" and the name of the Post:
In the article Optimal Title Plugin, WordPress and SEO, I discussed how using Aaron Schaefer’s Optimal Title Plugin can help change the titles of the pages on a WordPress Blog. By downloading the plugin, uploading it and then activating it, the only thing left to do is change the headers to read :
<title><?php optimal_title(‘at’); ?><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></title>
With the Optimal Title Plugin, these will now display the title as follows:
1. The Home Page remains the same showing the Blog Name.
2. For a Category, it will show the Category and the Blog Name in the Title.
3. For an Archive, it will show the Year, the Month, and the Blog Name in the Title.
4. For a Page, it will show the Page Name and the Blog Name. :
5. For an individual Post it will show the name of the Post, and the Blog Name.
Just another reason that the title itself is so important! Make your keywords and titles come first then your blog name. This will add to the number of keyword to word ratios that search engines look for to rank in their content when searching. Kudos to Aaron Schaefer for an awsome plugin!
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That’s a really useful article. Great job. Titles are really important aspects need to be looked in to while writing articles. Most people ignore that fact. Anyway, goo job with the article. Keep it up. Cheers
Titles itself are very important. thank you so much for sharing this. It is a very useful post-
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Nice one.Setting up my first Wordpress integration and these tips should be helpful.
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