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Individual homepage title/title tag on every page

by XNet
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I just found a site which changes its title tags and the title displayed on the page according to the article title.

The original site's title is only displayed on the homepage.
The article's title is even used in the copyright footer.

Examples are on the site
reviewbonus4u . com

How does he do that? Is there a Wordpress Plugin for this task.

I guess this is a pretty clever way to get you individual articles ranked. I's not about getting ranked for the term "reviews".
And this guy has good rankings all the time. Even for pages which have nothing on them but stock text.
#homepage #individual #page #tag #title or title
  • Profile picture of the author lstoops
    You can do that with the All in One SEO plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author XNet
    Of course! Why didn't I think of that myself. Thanks.
    Does the plugin only affect the title tags or also what's displayed on page? In my example the article title is displayed as the homepage title.
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    • Profile picture of the author lwliang1
      Originally Posted by XNet View Post

      Of course! Why didn't I think of that myself. Thanks.
      Does the plugin only affect the title tags or also what's displayed on page? In my example the article title is displayed as the homepage title.
      The plugin changes the title tags, the meta description and the meta tags. You have to actually put the info in yourself, it won't do it automatically though.
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    • Profile picture of the author clickbump
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      You don't need a plugin (overkill) just to show individual page titles.

      Replace the <title> tag in your header.php file with the code below.

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<title><?php {echo the_title('', '');}?></title>
      If you are OK with meddling a bit with the code, Yukon's suggestion is the most appropriate. However, since the title tag is by far the most significant piece text in terms of SEO, if your current theme isn't even doing this, I'd consider looking for a more SEO friendly theme.
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    • Profile picture of the author balonge
      I tried this, but I still have all my navigation pages showing the same title, description and keywords from the index.php file. Any suggestions?
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  • Profile picture of the author gsport11
    Having the title of the article and the title of the page being consistent is a logical (and common) best practice. However...

    I can understand how this could help a single page within a site (article, for example), but I wonder what this does to the home page. If the home page link's anchor text is different on each page of the site, then how can a SE really know what that page (home page) is supposed to be about? Certainly, the home page can't be optimized for every page title in the site (except, perhaps in a navigation bar). Further, such anchor text would mislead the visitor.

    Also, what's the point of employing a copyright that is not an accurate description of the legal entity that actually claims rights to the article/page? Again, this seems misleading.

    You can get good on page optimization without purposefully misleading the visitor or the search engines.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Originally Posted by gsport11 View Post

      Having the title of the article and the title of the page being consistent is a logical (and common) best practice. However...

      I can understand how this could help a single page within a site (article, for example), but I wonder what this does to the home page. If the home page link's anchor text is different on each page of the site, then how can a SE really know what that page (home page) is supposed to be about? Certainly, the home page can't be optimized for every page title in the site (except, perhaps in a navigation bar). Further, such anchor text would mislead the visitor.

      Also, what's the point of employing a copyright that is not an accurate description of the legal entity that actually claims rights to the article/page? Again, this seems misleading.

      You can get good on page optimization without purposefully misleading the visitor or the search engines.
      Hi gsport11,

      Why would you ask these questions? I reread the entire thread and didn't find anything in this thread that relates to your question. No one said anything about "the home page link's anchor text (being) different". Nor was there anything that would indicate "a copyright that is not an accurate description of the legal entity that actually claims rights to the article/page". Was there another post that got deleted?
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      • Profile picture of the author XNet
        Nono, gsport11 is right.
        If you look at the example page reviewbonus4u . com then the copyright link changes every time according to which article you're viewing.

        My question is this: This guy isn't keen on building a following or getting the site ranked for one keyword. Every article he's writing is targeting another keyword with extremely low competition. People who come to this site via Google just see one blog post and that's what they want. And as far as I see this strategy gets him ranked even when he puts no content in his blog posts. Is this due to changing the whole page's title and title tags according to the article's keyword?
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