Mar
2007
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Better SEO for your Website using Plugins and Tags -Part 2

by Matt

Ok, so we have our tags set up from part 1 for single post pages. Now we need to make our title even more keyword friendly and use some of the tags we are generating to use on our main page.
View Part one

Make sure you have activated SEO Title Tags. Look in the options section of your blog admin and you will see SEO Title Tags. You should add a more specific title for your main blog...in this section: "For home page, specify title tag" enter a sentence that describes your blog. For example, here is my new title: "Real Estate Blog Consulting: Real World Tips For Marketing Blogs and Introductions to Technology". This will replace your current blog title, which is created from the options->General section of your blog. We have "Realivent Real Estate Technology Blog" in that section. This will still be used on all single pages and posts. The SEO Title Tag will also rearrange the title for all single posts and pages to display the post title, before the blog title. Before we activated the SEO Title Tag, our title for this post looked like this: Realivent Real Estate Technology Blog >> Better SEO for your Website using Plugins and Tags -Part 2 now it looks like this: Better SEO for your Website using Plugins and Tags -Part 2 >> Realivent Real Estate Technology Blog. It subtle, but effective.

before your blog changes the title, you have to add a little bit of php code to your header.php file.

In your current theme folder, open the header.php file and find the title tags.
Before:

HTML:
  1. <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>

After:

HTML:
  1. <title><?php if (function_exists('seo_title_tag')) { seo_title_tag(); } else { bloginfo('name'); wp_title();} ?></title>

Basically the above code says, if the SEO Title tag is activated it will display the new formatted title, if SEO Title Tag is not activated, Wordpress will display the original title. So even if you remove the plugin, you title will still display your blog information. That's it for SEO Title Tags, our title is now golden. Are you on the first page of Google yet?

Let's go back to Tag Warrior again, we still have to add meta keywords to the main blog page.

Remember that Tag Warrior already makes meta keywords for single page posts, so we do not have to do anything. But for the main page, we need to add tags. I am going to us the UTW_ShowWeightedTagSet function to get the most popular tags for my blog and put them in the meta keywords. So my meta keywords will always match my content.

enter this code into the header.php file.

HTML:
  1. <meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo (!is_single())? UTW_ShowWeightedTagSet('tagsettextonly','',40) : '' ; ?>" />

What the above code says: if the page is not a single post, (! = not true, or false) fill the content of our meta keywords with the most popular tags. The number 40, means I only want to show the top 40 tags, I would leave it at 0 to show all. But sometimes to many keywords is bad, Google will think you are a keyword spammer. For more information about the UTW functions, you can read about them from the options page for the plugin. There are links to formats and functions built by the author.

That should do it for the start of our SEO optimization. We now have a keyword friendly title, and heavy keywords in our metatags based on our most popular tags. Even if this has no effect, it only took us about 30 minutes and we don't every have to do it again...Next I'm going to try to remove all my html errors, and validate my html. I think I had over 400 last time I verified my html...I'm sure it's just going to be easy, I'll let you know how it goes. 

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  • 4 Responses to “Better SEO for your Website using Plugins and Tags -Part 2”

    1. Real World SEO Examples - How important is your website title? » Realivent Real Estate Technology Blog (http://realiventblog.com/2007/03/08/real-world-seo-examples-how-important-is-your-website-title/)

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    2. Loren Nason (http://www.futureofrealestatetechnology.com)

      Thanks Matt.

      I just did these steps on my blog to see if it helps me.

      I’ve already got PR 4 so i don’t know if it will help

      Loren


    3. bedrijfskleding (http://www.bedrijfs-kleding.nl)

      works fine for me though


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