WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization

Optimizing your Page/Post titles and title tags

Now we turn to a crucial pair of elements: Post/Page titles and title tags. We need to make a distinction between a WordPress Page title and a Page's meta title tag because in a default configuration, WordPress generates the title tag automatically from the Post title, but in an advanced SEO configuration (which we will employ through the use of plugins), we will generate meta title tags manually.

Page/Post titles processing in WordPress

The WordPress Page/Post title is the upper-most element that you create when you create a Page or Post. WordPress then employs this Post/Page title in a few ways, depending on your setup:

• The Post/Page title is employed as the anchor text in internal WordPress navigation ...