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If you are using wordpress as your blogging platform, a lot of benefits can we get in wordpress. One benefit is ease to configure them for search engine-friendly or search engine optimization (SEO). Today in my post I will guide you how to make the title tags on wordpress for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

If we are talking about wordpress and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) we will have more option to use wordpress plugins for SEO. There are also themes that have these as part in the package. The seo plugins available are a lot more advanced and are not covered by free theme, but do not worry I have a trick that is simple enough to implement your blog to search engine friendly.

Basically on default wordpress blog and free themes, they are not yet configured in title tag for SEO purposes, but for premium themes some of them have used it.

Now let’s start to configure your title tag on your wordpress theme for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The completely steps are below:

Step 1. Log in to your wordpress blog account.
Step 2. Then Go to the Appearance | Editors panel. If you look to the right you will see a list of all files within your Theme. Select the header.php template, if you do not see it might be in the main template. This differs associated with the owners who make these themes. But most of them enter a title tag in the header.php template.

Step 3. Select the Title code within the header template. Which can you see highlighted in Picture 1 and replace it with either of the Following codes below. Just Choose one for it. Personally I recommend to use code as above.

<title><?php if (is_home () ) { bloginfo(‘name’); } elseif ( is_category() ) { single_cat_title(); echo ” – “; bloginfo(‘name’); } elseif (is_single() || is_page() ) { single_post_title(); } elseif (is_search() ) { bloginfo(‘name’); echo ” search results: “; echo wp_specialchars($s); } else { wp_title(”,true); } ?></title>

Or

<title><?php wp_title(‘&laquo;’,true,’right’); bloginfo(’name’); if ( is_home() ) { ?> | <?php bloginfo(‘description’); } ?></title>

Important Notice: Before replacing any codes for title on your default theme, first copy and paste all your header script to Notepad for back up and safe your work.

Step 4. After replacing the code for your title then press the update button to save your workpage. That’s all your wordpress title was configured for search engine friendly.

Remember, if you change to another theme, you will need to repeat the process of changing your wordpress title on your header.php template. Or for ease step you can configure your header.php before you upload your theme to web hosting.