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March 21, 2007

SEOing WordPress Title Tags

Filed under: Main — Ryan Jones @ 8:33 am

Those of you who regularly read this blog might be familiar with an article I wrote last month titled What The Hell is cpsrvd. It was basically just an example of how to write a useful SEO article.

I was searching for information about cpsrvd and realized that I couldn’t find everything I was looking for in one post, so I wrote one of my own. That’s always been a great SEO strategy. In fact, it’s how NoSlang.com and TextMemos.com were created.

Anyway, I noticed a lot of search traffic coming for the term “cpsrvd”. (which will no doubt increase after this article eh?)

Anyway, it wasn’t as much as I had expected from being on the front page of Google for that term. There was a small problem. Take a look, can you spot it?

Look at that title tag. It’s hideous. No wonder nobody’s clicking.

Luckily, there’s a great wordpress plugin called seo title tag plugin that lets you have more control over what your wordpress <title> tags look like.

Here’s that same Google results after the title tag change was spidered:

Looks like it’s not only more readable, but that it actually moved up in the results too.

Remember: your blog title may be great, but it’s not relevant to every article you post. Do your readers a favor and make sure you’re using great title tags. Sometimes, it’s all they have to go on when judging whether or not to visit your page.

4 Comments

  1. For those curious as to why the Google results are numbered in my screenshot, I’m using a FireFox extension called customize google that allows you to change many properties of the Google results page.

    Comment by Ryan — March 21, 2007 @ 8:38 am

  2. Ryan, it also makes real sense to ensure that your blog title is also on every single page. Take a look at my blog, articles have the title first, but my blog later.

    Comment by Ajay — March 21, 2007 @ 9:49 am

  3. I miss when this place was a sweet ass forum. Its been years since Ive been here. Hope things are good.

    Comment by EvilBastard — March 22, 2007 @ 9:52 am

  4. Welcome Back…

    I miss those days too EvilBastard.

    up until a year ago or so I had a “used to kick ass but doesn’t really kick ass any more” forum going, but the spam bots took it over.

    I’m sure one day I’ll have a great idea and do something productive with this domain. For now though, it’s just another blog.

    Feel free to come back though, I miss the days (and most importantly the old people)

    Comment by Ryan — March 22, 2007 @ 2:59 pm

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