Stepping away slightly from the recent vein of posts back into the ‘SEO’ aspect of the blog, I had an epiphany regarding the title setup of my wordpress blog.

It’s probably an important piece of information to anyone that hasn’t done it but way well also be something other people have been doing for years.

If you write a post it’s probably because you want people to read it therefore it makes sense to try and optimise it slightly while composing the content.

Use the ‘key phrase’ a few times without making the content read as though it’s obviously crammed with the phrase.

Google, the almighty also tends to favour the title of the page. If you look in the blue ‘title bar’ right at the top of your web page it reads ‘Wordpress Blog Title - UKMoneyPot - Personal Finance Blog’.

Before my epiphany, it would have read ‘UKMoneyPot Personal Finance Blog - Wordpress Blog Title’.

If Google favours page titles slightly (combined with ‘back links’) then the order used to be all wrong. The first thing Google would have seen is ‘UKMoneyPot….’ instead of the important bit ‘Wordpress Blog Title’.

In the ‘header.php’ file you’ll see