Setting up SEO optimized titles in Wordpress can be the difference between a little organic traffic and a lot more organic traffic. To set optimized titles up though you have a few different options:

1. Use a commonly available Wordpress plugin such as SEO Title Tag or All In One SEO Pack. Both give you full control of your Wordpress titles and allow you to SEO optimize them as you see fit.
2. A lazy man’s approach is to update your header.php file and replace the with following:
   <title><?php wp_title(””); ?><?php if(wp_title(””, false)) { echo ‘ :: ‘; } ?><?php bloginfo(‘name’); if(is_home()) { echo ‘ :: ‘; bloginfo(‘description’); } ?></title>

   Doing this puts “Blog Name :: Description” on the hompage and “Title :: Blog Name” on all other pages which for me is close enough to perfect and then I don’t need to worry about setting up any plugins and keeping the plugin updated.

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