Why (and how to) change the title of your blog pages (in Wordpress and Blogger2)
Why change the title of your blog pages?
You know that search engines such as Google and Yahoo take webpage titles into account in order to pull keywords out. Now, the title of every page of your blog is constituted by two parts:
- a fixed part, indicating your blog title (i.e. “Franciov Weblog“);
- a variable part, indicating your page/post title (i.e. “Why (and how to) change the title of your blog pages (in Wordpress)“).
Using some good sense, you can realize by yourself that the most important keywords are located in the variable part of the title, that is the one containing the most relevant words of your post. Therefore moving the variable part before the fixed one doesn’t seem to be a bad idea.
How to change the title of your Wordpress blog pages?
Here is my solution. It creates the title of your pages in the following way: (page name) - (blog name).
<title>
<?php wp_title(''); ?>
<?php if(wp_title(' ', false)) { echo ' - '; } ?>
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
</title>
How to change the title of your Blogger2 blog pages?
Have a look here.
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January 30th, 2007 at 11:04 am
You’re mad
February 1st, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Hey that would be useful. Why not come with something that wouls also help the blogspot bloggers like me?
February 1st, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Titles are amazingly important for ‘blogs, and getting the balance right is so vital for good rankings in the search engines.
But a good title can also be a good hook to pull the casual visitor in. So a little time spent thinking about a good title could just land you on a social website and get you some good traffic.
Take a look at some articles I’ve found recently that might help would-be celebrity ‘bloggers squeeze every last drop of power out of their titles, go to: http://del.icio.us/wasmall/Writing
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 am
Divya, ok I will! And I’ll post about the MyBlogLog Recent Readers’ Widget too. Stay tuned!
Wayne, thanks for the great list of articles. I will read them patiently and then I might talk about one of them in the next update of this post. Stay tuned, you too!
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
I don’t have anything in mine as I created my own banner. Perhaps I will have to rethink that.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Thanks for the update Franciov… I think I am a bit late to comment but still better late than ever.
August 13th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
will title change have any impact upon SEO and already indexed pages?