WDD | SEO for WordPress (Part 1)
Enclosed are a few simple instructions in taking your first steps into SEO for your blog. This covers the use of the Title, Description & Keyword Meta Tags and how to alter them in WordPress 2.5.0. Along with a video, code is also included.
As mentioned through the recording, the code is detailed below should your installed theme not have them present or if you had trouble reading from the above presentation. I have broken down the important steps to updating your blogs Title and Keyword/Description information.
Step 1: Login to your WordPress Administration Dashboard, then go to Design & then the Theme Editor.
Step 2: Select from the right, the template file named Header (header.php) and it will load into the Theme Editor. Note that there may be some occasions where the first part of the file might be named something different from ‘Header’ but generally will still be easy to recognize.
Step 3: Locate the <title> and <meta tags in the Theme Editor and update the information as was discussed in the video. Details are also below of the code used…
TITLE
<title>your_title_here</title>
- displayed at the top of the browser window
- displayed as the primary link to your site from successful search results
KEYWORDS
<meta name=”keywords” content=”your_keywords_here” />
- spell everything correctly…
- seperate each keyword with a comma ( , )
DESCRIPTION
<meta name=”description” content=”your_description_here” />
- displayed more often than not on search results, under your sites title
Step 4: All that is left to do, is click on the button ‘Update File’ and you have successfully updated your website/blogs Title, Keywords and Description.
I hope this has helped!
Should you have any questions or a suggestion for a tutorial you would like to see, please get in touch. You can do so by emailing… interact (at) zenelements.com
Thanks for reading / watching, take care
Alex | Zen
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If I followed you correctly you’ll end up with the same title, keywords and description on all pages. That is not a good thing.
Liam, hello.
You are correct that following these steps will result in your blog having the same title, keywords and description over each page. This though, is not necessarily a bad thing… This was a first step tutorial with the basis for beginners to incorporate some keyword information into their blogs where they have perhaps not found how to do so before.
We will however be looking at a further tutorial with a more advanced way to incorporate tags/permalinks/categories into these areas, in a more dynamic fashion.
Thank you for your response which was a valid one and raised this point.
Alex | Zen