Hacks n Tips for Bloggers

Swaping Blog's Name with Page's Title

Written by Basis-Consultant on 10:33 PM

You have observed that in many blogs the Blog Name appears before the Page's Title like

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`------Blog Title--------- `-------Page Title/



This Format is not good for search engine optimization. If your blog's Title is especially large all of your blog pages appears to have the same title.
There is a hack to swap you page's title with blog's title.
Go to your blog's template ---> edit html & click on expand widget templates.
Now seach for

<title><data:blog.title/></title>

and replace above code with

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

Here is the result after applying above hack

Now fill you post title with lot of keywords. This will help you pages to show up in relevant search results in high position.