As you all know WordPress generate its pages with matching titles according to the page contents. It uses the wp_title() tag to accomplish this simple task.

Now in search of a better way to boost our pages for search engine optimization, I decided that the original format that comes with WordPress is a little obsolete:

< ?php bloginfo('name'); ?> < ?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive < ?php } ?> < ?php wp_title(); ?>

This prints the blog’s name first, then adds the words “Blog Archive” and finally prints the most crucial part of the equation, the post title.

I decided to print the post title first, so that Google would have the keywords in it indexed first, not last. So here’s what I did:

< ?php wp_title(''); ?>< ?php if ( is_home() ) { } else { ?> - < ?php } ?>< ?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

It’s not rocket science but I believe this will help boost your SEO as Google will find your permalinks and WordPress generated pages with its title first instead of your blog name.

PS: This won’t affect your front page as it doesn’t have any post titles on it.

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 30th, 2006 at 1:54pm and is filed under wordpress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.