How To Make Your Titles Search Engine Friendly
We love descriptive blog post titles. However, like any type of advertising, especially solo ads, article titles, and (of course) blog post titles, create them too long and you’re wasting not only a lot of usable space, but hindering your search capabilities.
That’s why we are testing a new SEO post link plugin for WordPress bloggers which “makes your post link short and SEO friendly… automatically.” In other words, this simple plugin removes extraneous words from your titles. It comes pre-built with a whole list of “useless” words, and you can set it to really be aggressive (we’re eliminating any word less than two characters long) through the “more options” setting.
The SEO Post Links Plugin has been developed by keeping in mind all the shortcomings of the default Wordpress configuration. To put it briefly, this plugin makes your blog post link short as well as optimizes it for search engine.
So, again in theory, this makes all your page title links rich in keywords and short on those miscellaneous ones that could make the difference in being found in the search engines… or not.
It will be an interesting test to see how effective this WordPress plugin is. It most certainly makes good search engine optimization sense to pare down words in your linking.
Special Note: As I save this post, and the permalink is created, I have visual proof it has removed the “extra words.” Our permalink will read “titles-search-engine-friendly.” Now personally I know that “how to” also makes a good search term. So we shall see if shortening up our urls makes a difference in Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live, and the rest.
And… Remember that list of pre-built words I spoke about above? You can edit that list, add new words, remove some; flexibility is the key. It does appear that the creator of this plugin has done a superior job.
Only time will tell; our test begins.
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December 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Though I’m not using Wordpress I’ll be very interested to see the results of your test!
You always find the most useful stuff!
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
WoW! That sounds neat… how long are you going to test it? All of us can use this to the fullest!
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December 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
@Pam – thanks a bunch Pam! Big smile over here!
@Linda – “Scott” will be adding it to all the WHB blogs (http://www.whole-hog-blogs.com) (hopefully tonight). It’s very cool
December 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Wow…This will be great. I’ll be watching for it!
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December 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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December 3rd, 2008 at 8:48 am
Great stuff….. you always stay in the forefront of useful “tools”. Appreciate your testing and insight.
December 11th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Oh wow! I need this tool desperately.
December 12th, 2008 at 12:28 am
It will be an interesting test indeed! Unfortunately I don’t have a wordpress account.. But I would love to see what would be the result..
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December 12th, 2008 at 4:34 am
I’d be interested to hear your results. I don’t pay much attention to my post titles, so it would be great for a plugin to do it for me.
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December 12th, 2008 at 6:52 am
I prefer the Blogger platform for ease of use. This plugin sounds great for SEO and I look forward to reading the results of your trial.
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December 12th, 2008 at 7:49 am
That is definitely interesting. I look forward to hearing the feedback from your test. Any tip on getting picked up by the search engines is certainly of interest!
December 12th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Hmmm. I suspect the informaed human brain would be better at it than the plug in–but will be interested to see the results.
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December 12th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
@everyone – first thank you for commenting! Every single commenter is one smart cookie
And, I think so far it’s doing a very good job. Vein, removing extraneous (and unnecessary) words should be a boon for the search engines. Make your url too long, and your keywords for that title lose weight/power. You want the critical words showing when someone heads to the search engines; their algorithms strip out the needless ones anyway. Good SEO strategy 
December 12th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
After being in the SEO industry for all these years, my brain just works automatically like this. I almost speak in keywords anymore. LOL!
Great plugin though for the beginners!
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December 12th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I’d be interested to see the results of this. I don’t use Wordpress, but as a website designer I’m pretty well-versed in meta tagging. I’m just waiting for Google to run their next PR update in January to see how my site has done over the past couple of months.
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December 12th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
thanks for the tips, do you know what is heading ? and how to implement it?
December 12th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Just thought I’d stop back to check in on this plugin
December 12th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Can’t wait to use this. You always find tools that are very helpful!
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December 12th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
that’s a great idea for a plugin. my settings have my post urls as numbers, but i have seen plenty of urls that use post titles and that are incredibly long.
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December 13th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Great plugin for wordpress. Do update us on the success of this plugin.
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December 14th, 2008 at 11:25 am
@Success – not sure if I understand your question since there is the “header” area of a blog or website and/or a “title” can be considered the “header” for your post or article. If you return, feel free to clarify your question. I’d love to answer
December 15th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Sounds like an excellent plugin, keep us posted on your results.
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December 15th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Keep us posted on your success! Good Luck
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December 15th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I am so bad with keywords and with writing so many blog posts I don’t have the time to do keyword searches. I hope you keep us posted on how this works. I may just add the plugin myself anyway to check on it too.
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December 16th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
This seems like a very useful plug-in to me and I adore people who are willing to do the testing – and publish results…
December 24th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Hi. Good news.
December 30th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Hi. Good site.