Optimal Title for WordPress Blog

WordPress may have improved its blog structure to expand its popularity to a larger audience. For example, it has the capability now to run as a CMS (content management system), a structure that is commonly dominated by Drupal and Joomla. Despite the improvement, there are still ways to improve its Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for search engines, such as Google and Yahoo!. These are vital if you are looking for "free", inorganic links to your blog sites. One of the many ways is to improve your Title Structure of WordPress.

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The default WordPress Title Structure is decent but definitely not good enough. The best way to introduce your posts is to have the title of the post placed in front and the blog title to come after that. Although the blog title may not help much, but it will increase the number of keywords (however, note that the drawback of having too many keywords is that it reduces the value of every keywords).

Typically, there are a few ways to go about improving your WordPress Blog Title Structure.

1. Use Optimal Title Tag plugin - this plugin has been around for quite some time and it can be downloaded from here. It does not require much effort; all that is needed is to install the plugin and activate it.
2. Manually edit the header template - this method is slightly tedious, but is probably a cleaner way to handle coding. I would definitely prefer to do it this way than to use a plugin. (See below on how to edit the title tag)

<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() ) { single_post_title();}
else { wp_title('',true); } ?></title>

Thanks to Daily Blog Tips for providing this lovely information.

It is more advantageous to have the page information appearing before the blog name since it provides more meaningful search engine results. Generally, the text that appears in the title tag is often truncated when viewed. Hence, it is more effective to have words related to the post to be directly placed in front of the title tag.

So, wait no further, optimise your site now.