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November 16, 2007
Tweaking Page Title and Permalinks for SEO
SEO Friendly Permalinks
I know there is a plugin to optimise Wordpress title to be SEO friendly but I prefer to tweak it myself.
After all, it’s a small matter of editing and swapping two words in the header.php file.
1. Go into the Wordpress admin. Choose Options -> Permalinks.
2. Choose the Custom option and type : /%postname%/
Noticed that I got rid of the date month and year. Since my posts here will be tips, I think the dates as part of the article URL is just not needed. Shorter URLs are more search engine friendly (in my humble opinon)
SEO Friendly Page Titles
Here’s how most templates will display the title of a blog post.
It’s in the format of blog title >> post title.
In order to be search engine friendly, the title of the article should be first. So we just need to swap the two items.
1. In Wordpress admin, choose Presentation->Template and edit the header.php file.
2. Look for the following line:
3. Change that to:
:
Like so:
I’ve added the colon (:) to separate the blog title from the post title.
The result:-
I will still pick using the All In One SEO plugin anyday over the manual method. Anyways, thanks for the tutorial…
This is good but there’s more to it..If you use the All in One SEO, you get it to automatically add meta keywords, and meta description to the article.
But if you’d like to limit your SEO practices to just Titles and Permalinks, then that’s about it.
Just my two cents.
Cheers!
Mani
Ok I’ll be installing All in One SEO plugin too. Thanks for telling me.
I always manually tweak the templates, by doing this I can achieve the exact results.
You are using Flock browser?
All In One SEO does all this and more. Have been using it for a long time now.