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HOWTO: Make your blog's page titles more search engine friendly (SEF)
« on: October 28, 2005, 08:01:06 AM »

To make your blog more search engine friendly (and more friendly to your viewers), you can change your base template in your blog to:

  • Display only the blog name for the home page's page title
  • Display the category name and blog name as the page title on category pages
  • Display only the article title for the page title when viewing an article.
  • If displaying a photo and it has a caption, display the caption and the blog name. If the photo doesn't have a caption, display the photo album name and the blog name

To do this,go to Look and Feel/Templates to  edit your base template and replace the line that begins with <title> with the following:
 
Code:
<title>{{if article.categories}}{{if page.title}}{{page.title}}{{/if}}{{elsif title}}{{title}} - {{blog.name}}{{elsif category.label}}{{if category.label eq "Main Page"}}{{blog.name}}{{else}}{{category.label}} - {{blog.name}}{{/if}}{{/if}}</title>

Save the template and your page titles should now be more search engine friendly.
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Re: HOWTO: Make your blog's page titles more search engine friendly (SEF)
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2006, 11:05:31 AM »

Do you have a screenshot or demo of what the search engine friendly page looks like?
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Re: HOWTO: Make your blog's page titles more search engine friendly (SEF)
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2006, 12:27:08 PM »

Do you have a screenshot or demo of what the search engine friendly page looks like?

Yes, the Blogzerk blog has this modification.
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Re: HOWTO: Make your blog's page titles more search engine friendly (SEF)
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2006, 02:42:52 PM »

I just googled an article on my blog and then googled one on yours, I like it. I'm going to do this change now.

Does this improve SEO by any chance? I'm curious about google's sitemaps:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

I just made a sitemap of my forums and submitted it. (Thanks for the help with the XML)

Any thoughts on sitemaps or plans to create sitemaps for blogzerk?
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Re: HOWTO: Make your blog's page titles more search engine friendly (SEF)
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2006, 02:59:06 PM »

I just googled an article on my blog and then googled one on yours, I like it. I'm going to do this change now.

Does this improve SEO by any chance?

Yes, that's one of the main benefits.  Page titles are important for ranking well so this makes your title or category post the page title. It also helps your visitors know exactly what they are looking at.


 I'm curious about google's sitemaps:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

I just made a sitemap of my forums and submitted it. (Thanks for the help with the XML)

Any thoughts on sitemaps or plans to create sitemaps for blogzerk?

I'll have to check with Blogware on this. I haven't heard any plans for it.
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