SEO’ing WordPress Page Titles

Ok, so I just noticed that all of my WordPress blogs have the name of the blog before the title of the post. This is probably not getting the maximum benefit as far as SEO goes, of the title tag for ranking that post in the search engines. So, I went into my themes to investigate the fix. The answer was very simple.

1. Find the theme you are using on your server Document Root -> wp-content -> themes -> YOUR THEME
2. Edit the header.php file and find the

   tag will move the name of the post to the front, rather than the back. I threw in a space and hyphen to clean it up a bit.

3. Voila, you are done

Of course, some themes are really hacked up and make this a little more drawn out. You will have to edit each page template by hand if you have a hacked up template like the one I am using…which is due for a change. Now, I will have to see if the traffic is going to pour in or not.

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