WordPress SEO – Optimize Post Title Tags In Your WordPress Theme
According to Wikipedia, WordPress was used on more than 200 million websites by the end of 2009. This is huge for any CMS on the market, more so for an open source blogging platform. I won’t get into what made WordPress CMS spread so much, as this is not the purpose of this post. I’ll only point out one of the things that contributed to this tremendous spread of WordPress: it’s templating system, the ease of customizing its themes and the great number of free and premium WordPress themes available.
However, despite the huge number of WordPress themes on the market and the “boom” in theme development for WordPress powered websites, one thing I’ve noticed in most of the themes I’ve tested and the new ones that come out: a very non-SEO choice of html tags for the blog and post titles, leading to a decrease of SEO power of the title tags. To understand what I’m talking about, let’s take a look at the HTML coding of the default WordPress theme – that probably served as a model for a lot of the themes available now. Read more