Comments on: Quick and dirty guide to WordPress SEO: Learn along with me! http://www.readwriterachel.com/blog/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-wordpress-seo-learn-along-with-me/ Interrogator of gargoyle lovers, frog fondlers, and the eternal optimists saving the news industry Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:36:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Rachel http://www.readwriterachel.com/blog/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-wordpress-seo-learn-along-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Rachel Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:54:33 +0000 http://www.readwriterachel.com/?p=303#comment-244 Chris, alas, you do have to muck around in the Header template (or you can download a wordpress theme that's already done the work for you, but I wanted to stick with the look that I've already got--thanks <a href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2007/08/05/wordpress-magazine-theme-released/" rel="nofollow">Mimbo</a>). If you don't know PHP but understand HTML, you should be safe ignoring anything between "<?php" and "?>". Just look for something similar to this: <h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1> That's how my header looked. Yours will probably look somewhat similar..then all you have to do is change the header tags. I also mucked around a little on the main page template and the single posts template to change post titles to <h1>. Good luck! Let me know how it goes. I'm no PHP whiz either, honestly :) Chris, alas, you do have to muck around in the Header template (or you can download a wordpress theme that’s already done the work for you, but I wanted to stick with the look that I’ve already got–thanks Mimbo). If you don’t know PHP but understand HTML, you should be safe ignoring anything between “<?php” and “?>”. Just look for something similar to this:
<h1><a href=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></h1>
That’s how my header looked. Yours will probably look somewhat similar..then all you have to do is change the header tags. I also mucked around a little on the main page template and the single posts template to change post titles to <h1>.

Good luck! Let me know how it goes. I’m no PHP whiz either, honestly :)

]]> By: Chriswaterguy http://www.readwriterachel.com/blog/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-wordpress-seo-learn-along-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Chriswaterguy Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:32:22 +0000 http://www.readwriterachel.com/?p=303#comment-243 "So, the first thing I did was modify my theme so that my blog title is enclosed by tags instead." That makes sense - thanks for the tip. But how do I do that? I've been looking around the "Theme Editor" but I don't think it's in the Stylesheet, and I don't know how to tackle the Header template, being PHP. Thanks! “So, the first thing I did was modify my theme so that my blog title is enclosed by tags instead.”

That makes sense – thanks for the tip. But how do I do that? I’ve been looking around the “Theme Editor” but I don’t think it’s in the Stylesheet, and I don’t know how to tackle the Header template, being PHP.

Thanks!

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