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Question: In this post you wrote “Make sure your title tag has your title (headline) first before your blog name. You’ll need to edit your blog template to make sure that is happening. This is VERY important.”

My question to you is how is this done in the html?

Why do they make it so hard? :) It should be easier, especially since most bloggers aren’t technical or can even read any code at all. What most blog templates do is show the blog’s name, then a separator, then the blog post title tag. But you want to change that.

Why? Because you want your title (headline of your blog post) to show up first so that Google will read it and it will appear as more relevant when a searcher finds it. But how do you do this?

It’s actually pretty easy to do, but if you don’t know code, it can be difficult and scary to attempt. Rather than repeat what so many have done already here, I’ll point you to some good tutorials that are well done.

Ardamis has a great walk through on how to do this.

If you want to know more about the Title tag implementation in WP, visit this page.

And, of course, Problogger has an amazing tutorial on how to do it and more reasons about “why” to do it.

Good luck, and thanks for asking the blogger!