As a blogger when we write a blog post, we tend to write catchy headlines so that it will increase the CTR and our reader will love to read article with some kickass title. Though the problem with this approach is you optimize your post title for your readers but you miss out most important aspect of optimizing post titles for search engines.
For example you can write a reader friendly title like: My 2 month experience with iPad 2. But a better search engine friendly title would be: iPad 2 hands on Experience or iPad 2 review. Because people who will be searching for content will use search terms as “iPad 2 review” “iPad 2 hands on” Experience with iPad 2″
Another example:
If you write a post title like Make money online with infolinks Competition for this keyword is very high since it contains the word Make money online but you optimize this title for search engine friendly , you might like to keep it like Infolinks intext advertisement program review.
So we have seen two case here :
- User friendly title : Make money online with infolinks
- Search engine friendly title : Infolinks intext advertisement program review.
Now the question is how to attain such scenario, when we can keep our post title friendly for search engine and for users as well.
If you are Using WordPress as your blogging platform, headover to my previous post on :
Optimum setting guide for All in one SEO plugin.
Now when ever you write an article. After Writing user friendly title, drop down to the end of page and in the ALL in one SEO pack , add Search engine friendly title and this title will be displayed in search engine.
More over try to add a custom description of the post in less then 160 words, and tentative keywords for your post. This will help you to get better ranking in SERP’s.
Example :
User Friendly Title
Search Engine Friendly title
Search Engine result
Make it a habit to optimize your blog post for both readers and search engine. This will help you to rank better in search engine.
For more SEO tips , refer to following articles :
- 5 basic WordPress SEO practice
- Importance of proper categories for better SEO
- Importance of Backlinks for your blog
- Link Building and benefit of link building
Article by Harsh Agrawal
Harsh has written 945 articles.
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All in one SEO is the best plugin.
Really traffic building plugin…
You are right but the optimization of Post title comes with experience. The more you study and try out different ideas better are the results on search engine. In my case I have learned a lot about SEO and Blogging in past seven months and still learning.
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is there any such service available for blogger or not? this is a really good tool.
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I would also recommend everyone to use different permalinks and title. For an example:
How to sell cars online
/sell-cars-online/
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I have spent most of the time today in reading your articles on wordpress SEO, and implemented most the tip you have suggested like permalink changes, plantinum seo plugin etc. Hope I get positive results from today’s work. All credit goes to you Thanks.
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This post was really helpful.I am on your footsteps.I would like to come back again and see the useful information in this page.
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Thanks Useful one.
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This is a great thing to do, you can optimize your title found on search engine and make it more appealing. I know Thesis has an extra panel when writing posts that one could fill in like title, description and then keywords.
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A good post. I think All in One SEO plugin is a must for wordpress users.
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I do this almost every time unless when I’m making a “crappy” post and didn’t bother to optimize it for the search engine
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People do not use AIO SEO Plugin potential to the max..
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Great tip.
I do it some times not always…
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i prefer Headspace over All IN ONE SEO PACK
Already installed on my blog!
Its really a great plugin. After installing this plugin i noticed great increase in my traffic (almost double)
all in one seo is a life saver. Earlier i used to ignore titles all together but now i take some 5 mins extra time to think a suitable title for each and every post.
Harsh,
So far, I thought you have to use description in your post only. But now I came to know that you can use the description in different words that is related to your post.
Thanks