How to Make Your Title Tag SEO Friendly

8. April 2010 in Wordpress | 9 Comments

WordPress title tag also plays important role in SEO, it telling the search engine spider what your site covered, and allows your site to be indexed based upon the correct and most relevant keywords. If your site has good seo, then you will have lots of organic traffic from various search engines. So how to make your wordpress title tag SEO friendly?

Open header.php file, find the <title> tag, and replace it by the following code.

<title>
<?php if (is_home () ) {
bloginfo('name');
} elseif ( is_category() ) {
single_cat_title(); echo ‘ – ‘ ; bloginfo('name');
} elseif (is_single() ) {
single_post_title();
} elseif (is_page() ) {
bloginfo(’name’); echo ': '; single_post_title();
} else {
wp_title("",true);
} ?>
</title>

This code will generate title tags according to the following model:

  • Blog homepage -> display blog name.
  • Category page -> display the category name and the blog name.
  • Article page -> display the article title.
  • Static page -> display the blog name, and the page title.

9 Responses to “How to Make Your Title Tag SEO Friendly”

  1. ulfiyah says:
    April 8, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    not work

  2. Codrut Turcanu says:
    April 9, 2010 at 2:39 am

    Good advice, just that techie is not my best skill… :)

    I make things simpler. Using Platinum SEO plugin :)

  3. Make Website says:
    April 12, 2010 at 1:43 am

    Truly good stuff but again I’m not so confident to touch my template code. I’m not a technical person anyway. Codrut Turcanu recommended platinum SEO plugin. Will look into that. Overall, I like this site, great information and tips.

  4. Dave says:
    April 25, 2010 at 11:39 am

    I get an error when I copy over your title suggestion.

  5. shaun way says:
    May 22, 2010 at 5:48 am

    try in to to chatlinks

  6. shaun way says:
    May 22, 2010 at 5:51 am

    great..no comment

  7. Website Designer Bristol says:
    May 26, 2010 at 1:20 am

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  8. kampanie AdWords says:
    July 27, 2010 at 2:35 pm

    Great text and nice blog.

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    July 13, 2011 at 8:48 pm

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