Optimising the Title tag

  • astoller

    (@astoller)


    17 years, 7 months ago

    Hi

    I have the following code in my header.php which generates the title tag.
    It generates pages with “&raqo” statements inside my title which are not ideal for search engines.
    What would i lose if i just dropped them frm inside the following code?
    Thanks
    Art

    <title>
    <?php bloginfo(‘name’);
    if ( is_home() )
    { ?>» <?php bloginfo(‘description’); }
    if ( is_single() )
    { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } wp_title();
    ?>
    </title>

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  • whooami

    (@whooami)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    you would lose the “&raqo” 😛

    no, seriously, I dont use them and ive seen no ill effects, they dont add anything to your seo, if thats what youre asking.

    maerk

    (@maerk)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    You would lose the separator between your site’s name and the blog post’s title. So instead of it being:

    My blog >> My post

    It would be just:

    My blog My post

    To my mind that’s a bit confusing for visitors. What I do is switch them around:

    My post << My blog

    (using &laquo;)

    That puts the most relevant title first, which might help your SEO. To be honest, though, I don’t think it matters that you have separator characters in your title.

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    i use a simple dash.

    devlinsblogcom

    (@devlinsblogcom)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    When using the reverse order, how do you remove the » at the beginning? It seems to be embedded in wp_title?

    freelancemom

    (@freelancemom)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    Try this plug-in… http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/

    😉

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