SEO Friendly Title Tags for Wordpress
Out of the box, Wordpress is not very optimized for search engines. One very simple technique I’ve used to help remedy this is to create my own version of the title tag. This version looks good in the search engine results pages and is very relevant to keyword searches since the title is up front. You may or may not want to include your blog name, I choose to keep mine.
This is the code used for the title tags on this blog:
<title>
<?php wp_title('', TRUE); ?>
<?php if ( !is_home() ) { ?>
- < ?php } ?>
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
</title>
Other Resources:
There are some interesting resources for bloggers available to help with search engine optimization. Here’s a short list.
- How to Make Your WordPress Blog Search-Engine-Friendly
- Make Wordpress Search Engine Friendly
- Wordpress Codex Article on Search Engine Optimization
1 comment July 12th, 2008
