All Annotations of SEO Title Tag: A WordPress Plugin for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)[Preview]

saved by16 people, first byMarc Baumann on 2006-08-13, last byTazem Zero on 2008-06-20

• Installation instructions

  
  
  
  
  1. Upload seo-title-tag.php to your wp-content/plugins directory.
     
  2. Activate the plugin.
     
  3. Under Presentation -> Theme Editor in the WordPress admin, select
     “Header” from the list and replace:
     

     <title><?php bloginfo('name'); wp_title();
?></title>

     
     

     (or whatever you have in your <title> container with:

     
     

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

     
     
  4. Under Options -> SEO Title Tag, specify a title tag for your home page
     which will override your blog name as the home page’s title tag. You can also
     configure here whether you want all the rest of your site’s title tags to have
     your blog name, or a shortened version of your blog name, or neither, appended
     to the end.
     
  5. Define category descriptions in the admin under Manage -> Categories.
     When defined, these will be used in place of category names in the title tag on
     category pages (e.g. yourdomain.com/archives/category/uncategorized/)
     
  6. As desired, you can add a custom field called title_tag (or whatever
     you alternatively specified as the custom field name under Options -> SEO
     Title Tag) to any post or Page which will be used as a replacement title tag,
     specifically and only for that page. Don’t like the title tag for a particular
     post? No problem: just define a custom field when writing or editing a post or
     page in the WordPress admin. Custom Fields is above the “Delete this page”
     button. You may need to hit the plus sign to the right of Custom Fields to
     expand that section. The Key is title_tag (unless you’ve changed it in
     the Options) and the Value is whatever you want that post’s/page’s title tag to
     be.
• post titles should be catchy, pithy, and short-and-sweet; whereas title tags should incorporate synonyms and alternate phrases to capture additional search visibility.
• decouple post titles from title tags. Introducing… the SEO Title Tag 2.1 WordPress plugin.