WordPress Title Tags Get Some Additional SEO Help
On Monday March 10, 2008 version 2.5 of WordPress is slated for release. I am really looking forward to this version becausethe WordPress programmers have spent a lot of time overhauling it. In fact they skipped version 2.4 and went straight to 2.5
One of the improvements will better title tags. In case you’re unfamiliar with title tags they are what show up as the first line of text in the search results pages of any search engine page. One of the factors for many search engines is in terms of how they rank your site is known to be how and where the keywords in title tags are placed. Up until version 2.5 of word press if you did a standard install and either didn’t use a plugin that changed these for you, or didn’t manipulate the code (this is what I do) your blog/site name would always appear first followed by the title of your page /post. Now that will be reversed.
This will be a good thing and it will help WordPress be better optimized right from the get go assuming you are smart about the names you give your titles. I personally will continue to change the code for my WordPress installs because there is more that one can do with the title to improve search engine optimization, but if you don’t have the know how and can’t afford to pay someone to do it for you – what WordPress is offering is much better than what they’ve had before.