Please ditch ‘»’ or ‘>>’ from your page title. ‘»’ is like the polyester of blogs, it’s something that was cool a while back, totally synthetic and ugly. If I see another ‘»’ in a search result, I’ll puke.
It takes five seconds to have a better Wordpress blog by dropping ‘>>’ from your page title. You’ll make the title easier to read for humans and search engines and nobody can complain about that. Ready? Count it down.
- 5: Open up your header template.
- 4: Find:
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title> - 3: Replace it with this:
<title>
<?php wp_title(' ');Â ?>
<?php if(wp_title(' ', false)) { echo ' -'; }Â ?>
<?php bloginfo('name');Â ?>
</title> - 2: Save and close the file.
- 1: You finished early.
In less than five seconds, you got rid of that horrible polyester title and you now have a very SEO friendly and user friendly page title with ‘Post Name - Blog Name’. The results are easier to read for humans and search engines and way better than what is currently shipped with 99% of all themes.
There are plugins that do this, but it takes you less time to alter the template than it would to upload and activate the plugin.
Learn more about the wp_title tag here.
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