Keep Walking

SEO is a good way to improve the website traffic of your blog, and there’s a plugin named All in one SEO pack can make your wordpress blog more friendly to search engines. But you might know how verbose the setting in All in one SEO pack was, if you have installed that wordpress plugin.

In fact, you can do the SEO job with adding some code in the wordpress theme header.php file instead of using the SEO plugin, and no setting any more!!

The first thing is optimizing the blog title and post title. Copy and paste the code replace the title code in header.php file before <?php wp_head(); ?>.

<?php if (is_single() || is_page() || is_archive()) { ?>
<?php wp_title('',true); ?> | <?php } bloginfo('name'); ?>

Secondly, optimize the description and keywords, copy and paste the code after </title> label.

<? if (is_home()){
 $description = "your description ";
 $keywords = "your keywords";
 }
 elseif (is_single()){
 if ($post->post_excerpt) {
 $description     = $post->post_excerpt;
 } else {
 $description = substr(strip_tags($post->post_content),0,220);
 }
 $keywords = "";
 $tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
 foreach ($tags as $tag ) {
 $keywords = $keywords . $tag->name . ", ";
 }}
 ?>
 <meta name="keywords" content="<?=$keywords?>" />
 <meta name="description" content="<?=$description?>" />

It will show the description and keywords you set when it’s at the home page. When it’s in the single post page, it will get the post tags as the keywords, and get the post  excerpt or the first 220 chars of the post as the description.