Not Using the Title – But Need a Title for the SEO

  • mediaguy50

    (@mediaguy50)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    I am using a graphic title and therefore have not entered anything in the TITLE entry of the Presentation setup.

    Everyone has recommended having a Blog TITLE for search engine optimization and podcast aggregators (that the title is very very important).

    Can I have a blog title in the code for the purpose of site promotion but not have it appear to the blog visitor.

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  • Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    It all depends on what is defined as ‘title.’

    A basic title as meant by SEO’ers is the <title> tag of your <head>er. And this would certainly appear in the title bar of a visitor’s browser.

    But if you’re merely concerned about displaying the title/name of your blog on your site pages, you can remove any reference in your templates to:

    <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

    especially as a title header to your blog. Another option is to assign this a class, like so:

    <h1 class="bloghead"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></h1>

    and in your css/stylesheet, set it to not display:

    .bloghead {
display: none;
}
    thesmu

    (@thesmu)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    yes, if you do it this way your title will still appear in your rss feed and so on but not on your page.

    but also for accessibility it would be good to add your title as an alt tag on your graphic header eg:

    http://www.thunderdata.com/wiki/Main/ImgAlt

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