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Most Effective SEO Move You Can Make For Your Site

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After I wrote about my Case Study post on How I increase my search engine traffic by 258% in less than a month, I was getting numerous emails, and each had various different questions. So I would like to present to you a series of posts that you will see here for the next few days which will boost your site’s Search Engine Ranking to the top.

This effective move is having Dynamic Descriptive Titles for your website. That is what your audience loves, and that is what Search Engines love. Did you get that Dynamic Titles really mean two different things in these two contexts. Well yes it does.

Dynamic title that your audience loves are eye-catching title that you use for your post.

Dynamic title for search engines are new generated <title> tag for each page on your website.

The dynamic eye catching title for your audience is creativity. I really can’t help you with that, all you got to do is practice. At least write 5 different titles for your post and pick the best one before you publish it. Always look at top blogger’s titles, titles of articles on digg’s homepage to give you ideas.

But what I can help you with is adding dynamic titles for search engines on your website. If you are using a html website, then it should be a piece of cake for you because you are just making a new html page every time. But wordpress users, I can definitely help you.

Even though wordpress is open source and by far the best blogging software, the SEO of a default wordpress is horrible. It is the plugins that help you get everything optimized.

Why do you need to add Dynamic Descriptive Title tags?

Dynamic Title for Wordpress

Well as you see that by default wordpress titles aren’t very SE friendly. You have your blog title on each page, and that is what you need to get rid of, if you want to stand a chance for ranking on first page for competitive terms.

You don’t want the default wordpress title: Blog Title » Post Title

What you need is dynamic titles meaning unique titles for each post/page that use good keywords which will help you rank high in search engines. I am sure you are now convinced.

But if you still need more, Let me tell you that these keywords are bold as you see in the image above. So the users notice it more then others that don’t even have their full titles because it had all the useless info making it extremely long so you couldn’t highlight the important keywords.

How to add dynamic titles

No I will not give you bunch of php codes that you can add in your header and make changes. I know you don’t want to disect through the files, neither do I. A simple step to do this is a plugin called All in One SEO Pack. Download it NOW if you haven’t. And if you decide not to, then don’t send me an email asking how to rank high in Search Engines.

If you are wondering what settings to put in this plugin, you might want to head over to see the directions.

If you do that, your titles will look just like mine, then you would be able to rank high in search engines as long as you read my next few posts, so you get the full secrets.

Anyways once you have this plugin installed, make sure once you are done writing your posts, you go through and towards the bottom of the post editing page, there will be a tab called All in One SEO Pack, which you need to open and edit all the information. Add a custom description, title, and keywords for that page. This is ESSENTIAL. You must do this if you want good results.

Results

Believe me when I say this, after doing this step you are one step closer to the top. Your site now should have a custom title that will be highlighted in the search results, and you should have a unique description unlike other sites that have their main description overriding everything.

Now all you need is writing good titles. Believe me when I say this, the only thing that will help you learn is practice, so keep practicing.

Do make sure to read the next posts which will go in details what else I changed to get my search engine traffic increased by 258% in less than a month.



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28 Comments

Comment by Otooo
2008-09-24 08:19:43

Why is it that the blog title will make u lose rankings?
I have always been under the impression it won’t hurt (changing now)


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-09-24 11:54:48

Google and other search engines rank you based on the keywords… I am sure you know that. They look for keywords in your url, your title, and your meta description. So if you edit the title, your url will automatically follow if you use the all in one seo plugin. Hope that helps.


Comment by Otooo
2008-09-25 03:44:28

I know that – but why does having the blog title after the post title hurt?

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Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-09-25 05:01:51

It will hurt because it is a repetition of one keyword over and over in your title… Please read the comments I made below because another person had this argument..


 
 
 
 
Comment by Hugo Santos
2008-09-24 08:31:53

i understand what you say, and it is indeed a mandatory step for all blogs.

i have question though:

You are recommending to take aout the blog name from the post title?
i mean. most bloggers like me have in their titles something like this:

“Ten ways to bla bla bla | Bloggervenue”


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-09-24 11:56:34

Yes, I am advising you to take it out. Why ? Because it is not important … I am sure the person who visit your site sees the logo doesn’t need to know it is your site on every page.

It is a difference between B+ and an A if you get what I mean.


Comment by Hugo Santos
2008-09-24 12:36:56

hum ok i see what you want to say.

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Comment by QuickPWN
2008-09-24 21:08:38

Syed, look at this example:

Page Title | Website title with extra keywords

Now I understand that it is the page title that will bring in most of the visitors, but is it not true that the website title along with it and the extra keywords can also get you in search engines? And that is why I would also put my site name with extra keywords after seperating the page title.

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Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-09-24 22:38:55

Hey go ahead and do it. I am not going to argue and waste my time. If you want better search results then you would follow what I say above otherwise you will not get results like I did.

Reason: Same keywords in title = keyword spamming…

I mean I understand a site’s title can be make money online.com and he wants to rank for make money online so his title is make money online. He can add that to all pages, just so he can rank high for that keyword but I can assure you that he will be penalized and not rank for it at all…

But like I said, I am not going to tell you what to do. I am just going to suggest an option that you can take. Whether you take it or not, it is upto you.


 
 
 
 
Comment by Ben
2008-09-24 09:37:51

The all in one SEO tool is a must to get good Google rankings, otherwise you get hundreds of pages with the same title all over the place!


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-09-24 11:56:50

Yes exactly … That is a brilliant plugin.


 
 
Comment by Normal Joe Subscribed to comments via email
2008-09-24 09:41:07

Good stuff Syed! I use platinum seo pack, which is similar to all in one seo. It actually imported all my settings from it!

I see many just enable the plugin and that’s it! The don’t use the features available on each page, the title, description, and keyword.

I set these for each of my posts and it’s great to see that you are recommending the same.


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-09-24 11:59:38

Yes it is very recommended to use it in each post otherwise this plugin is useless..


 
 
Comment by Paul
2008-09-24 13:42:09

Great post… I concur titles will really help increase your SERPS. I can’t wait till the next post.Seeing what you have done with this blog I am sure that there is a tip you have that I need :)


 
Comment by Michael Aulia
2008-09-24 19:30:41

Yeah I’m using Platinum SEO too and imported my settings from All in one SEO. A better plug-in, I must say (can set each pages to be noindex, nofollow and other extra stuffs)


 
2008-09-25 07:39:15

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Comment by Authority Directory
2008-09-25 14:08:28

I have been using the all in one seo plug in since I started the blog and really like its features


 
2008-09-25 17:56:12

the All in One SEO is of the best plug ins for WP!


 
Comment by Eva White
2008-09-25 23:22:14

The all in one seo plugin is available from wordpress? I must get hold of it.
Will just see what setting you recommend as well.


 
2008-09-28 05:06:03

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2008-09-29 07:31:15

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Comment by James Mann
2008-10-01 05:46:42

I really like All-In-One-SEO and have it installed on each of my blogs. It has made quite a difference over the past months.


 
Comment by QuickPWN
2008-10-02 23:04:01

I’m finally going to be transferring my PR 5 website that’s hosted on Blogger.com to WordPress. This is a very helpful post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Syed!


 
Comment by Jose Subscribed to comments via email
2008-10-09 10:11:10

Hi, i have a question, wordpress already has a tags system and if i use both that and the keywords in the All in 1 SEO Pack i get duplicated keywords, isn’t that bad?


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-10-09 11:08:05

NO it won’t because there is a difference. Your Wordpress Tags are suppose to help your users find the posts when they search… But not so much for search engines in my belief. Technorati and others pay attention to that, but when you have Search Engines like Google looking … they look at the meta information and that is what All in One SEO does for you. They add a keyword in your meta data.


 
 
Comment by Geoserv
2008-10-11 23:38:42

Quite possibly one of the best plugins for Wordpress, gfood post.

I have been using it for months and definitely recommend it.


 
Comment by Jonathan Meager
2009-01-13 08:59:15

We use dynamic titles across our search engine results and it really really helps – if anythign it increases conversions more than actual traffic due to people findign what they want more easily!


 
2009-03-12 07:25:43

Of course dynamic titles help. It does not matter if you get to the top of the search engines if no one clicks on your links.


 

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