Questions regarding customization of titles on all pages and posts – plus seo

  • I have a few questions.

    How can I make each page have a unique title? Just so we are talking about the same thing – the title is what shows on the very top of the browser.

    For example, how can I make each post, on the post page, have the title of the post as the title of the page? It seems WP just duplicates the index page title on all pages and then adds unique information. How can I make all the pages show only the name of the page as the title?

    Just to be clear – the homepage of the blog says, in the title (what shows in the top of browser – not the h1 title tag):

    Name of this blog

    Other pages will say

    Name of this blog – the next page

    I would rather it say

    the next page

    and stop repeating the homepage title on all pages.

    Next question:

    What are people’s experience with WP in terms of SEO?

    I ask because I see plenty of blogs ranking high for competetive keywords. But I’ve never run into a WP blog ranking well on competitive keywords. Are they capable?

    What can I do to make WP more SE friendly? I’ve already activate permalinks. I have a little SEO knowledge and one thing I’m struck by is that everypage has the same H1 tag – which is the title in the blue header when using the default template. Could an SE penalize you for not having a unique h1 for everypage? Is it better to add an image header and lose the h1? Can I make unique H1’s for every page?

    Any examples of high ranking WP blogs/posts on competetive keywords?

    Thank you very much.

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  • Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    I just found this:

    https://www.yellow-llama.com/2005/seo-your-wordpress-blog/

    seems to answer some of my questions.

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    have to say – I’m shocked at how complicated wordpress is

    In your header.php, you will find the code for the title. It might says <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>

    Maybe change to <title><?php wp_title(); ?></title>?

    In what way are you finding it complicated? I think it’s pretty straight forward myself. I didn’t know anything when I started.

    Of course that probably won’t work for the main page then, since it won’t have a title… you might need to structure it as a conditional. I’m not sure how to do that.

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    I’m finding modification of it complicated. A lot of these plugins seem to be pretty important basic website stuff, they should be part of the install.

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    I have a question. I’ve been trying to install this plugin:

    https://www.uberdose.com/journal/archives/2004/10/02/keywords-and-description-meta-tags-for-wordpress-xfish_meta/

    It generates unique metatags for each page. Its states add the code to a “file called xfish_meta.php” and put it in the plugin dierctory. I’m assuming I have to create this file. So I created the file in the plugin directory to which I was going to add the code but now I can’t edit the file. There is no edit option offered (in cpanel file manager). I tried deleting it but it states “can’t stat `xfish_meta.php’ (No such file or directory)”.

    So now I can’t get rid of this file and am not sure what to do.

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    Actually, thats ok, I think I’ll try some other software.

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    I apologize. I’m a little frustrated. I reinstalled my blog. Anyone know the proper way to either to find or create a xfish_meta.php file? Is there a better way to insert unique keywords and description metatags for each post?

    Thanks.

    The file is here:
    https://www.uberdose.com/media/xfish_meta.phps

    You need to copy that info and then name it as xfish_meta.php, then upload to your plugins directory.

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    I see. Thank you.

    Hi i have tried using the following;

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

    However this puts an unwanted raquo as the first character of the title any ideas please?

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