So my blog as been up and running for a few months now, and I just noticed in Market Samurai that my on-page optimization is lacking. For some reason, it is showing that my keyword does not appear in the title or description of the website. I can't figure out why this is. I thought I had set everything up correctly, but it appears that I didn't. What do I need to change/edit/add to take advantage of on-page optimization?
This is interesting. If you bring a page from your site up in a browser, you can choose View from the browser's menu. In the Google Chrome browser, you choose View, Developer, View Source. Now you see the HTML for your page. If you do a control-f (Find command) and you search for Title, you will see the actual HTML title tag. Does your keyword appear there?
It would be interesting to hear suggestions for managing title tags when using WPD / WP Admin, etc. What's the best way?
By default, Wordpress will use the Site Title from the General Settings page for the html "title" tag when you go to your home address (whatever.com) and the description, likewise, will come from the "tagline" box on the General Settings page.
But who needs default, right? Now we get to play with plugins like All-in-One SEO (which is the one I'm most familiar with) and these kinds of plugins let us divorce the html from what Wordpress displays! Great fun!
In other words, when you go to your Wordpress website, the Title of your blog could be something like "Dean Richards" but you could set the Title in the SEO Pack admin to be "SEO Genius" and so while human visitors to your site would see the title as "Dean Richards", Google (who reads html) will see the title of the site as "SEO Genius."
This ability to control what Google sees (html) independently from what people see (Wordpress) is what this type of plugin is all about. The ability extends down to the post level. Human visitors can see a post title like "What's New" but you could set the Title for that post in the SEO Pack box to be something like "Keywords What's New." You can't go crazy with this and start stuffing keywords, but you can use it to provide keyword optimization in situations where the repetition of keywords in visible titles would look weird to humans.
Hey, thanks a bunch Dean. I really appreciate your help. I think using All-In-One SEO has done the trick, but I can't be sure until Google reindexes me.
Most WordPress themes use H2 tags for almost everything in the sidebar. This causes H2 to be used nearly 10 times on each page. ater versions of WordPress have fixed problems or have plug-ins to take care of things like making sure your blog has optimized its potential.
Various WordPress themes either don’t use the h1 tag properly or they don’t use it at all. Its important to add alt text to your images so they can be spidered by the search engines. If full-text versions of the posts are shown here, it can cause post pages to show in Google’s supplemental index.
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