DIY SEO Titles in WordPress

By default, WordPress displays the name of your blog first in the HTML “title” element. That’s not good for search engines or TrackBacks because it obfuscates the title of your post or page, which is what people (and Google) are really interested. There are at least two existing plugins that address this—SEO Title Tag and Optimal Title—but it’s really not that hard to do yourself, provided you’re not afraid of a little PHP.

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