Increase SEO Traffic by tweaking Page Title
Posted in How To, Increase Traffic, SEO Tips | By AhTim @ October 5th, 2007
Why tweaking Page Title ?
Yesterday I noticed a problem on my blog. That is no matter which post I click, the post title still remain my blog title which I think is not right ! This is because I have read some SEO article at Liewcf.com mentioned that Search engine read page title as it's linking text in search results. After that, the search engine will bold the search query keywords in page title and display back to the internet surfer.
How to tweak Page Title ?
So now come to the interesting part, how to tweak your page title display your post title, not your blog title ? With 2 simple steps below, you could tweak your page title for better SEO.
2 Simple steps:
1. Install wordpress plugin named "Optimal Title"
2. After installing the Optimal Title plugin, simply replace the <title> code in header.php with:
<title><?php optimal_title('') ?> <?php if (is_home()) bloginfo('description'); ?></title>
My two cents
After I've done the enhancement above, my AhTim.com really serve better SEO 
Firstly, my Alexa ranking straight increase from rank number 964,281 to 820,734. This means I jump ahead 143,547 website at one shot, that is nearly 15% improvement of my Alexa ranking! If I compare my Alexa ranking only in my country Malaysia, AhTim.com jump from rank 11,005 to 7,337 ! What a good result here 
Secondly, my RSS readers also increase from 15 readers to 24 readers. This is the first time AhTim.com break 20 readers. All these happen within 1 day !
But today when I check back my RSS readers, it went down to 9 readers again, I think maybe it was due to the article content. I think my RSS readers are more interested to read those article that more related to me, for example the post AhTim.com 28 MyBlogLog visitors list ? So far, no readers reply me that their face in the MyBlogLog visitors list. If you are in the list, please let me know then I will update your name + a link to your blog
No matter how, after tweaking my page title with this little tips, I have increase my blog's visitors from 60-70 visitors per day to 80-90 visitors per day ! Hopefully I can break 100 visitors per day in few more days
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October 6th, 2007 at 2:22 am
Great improvement! hope you can achieve your target. here is mine, for last month report http://www.hafreze.com/2007/10/iklan-proton-lawak-dan-keliru-dengan.html
October 8th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Thanks for your comment! I’ve visited your blog, you might want to look into your PageRank ? No pagerank will stop you to earn more
February 15th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Hi Tim,
Thanks for the post. In the process of trying to learn the best ways to get real referral traffic, sometimes something as simple as the page title can be overlooked… tweaking the page title is very important!
I am working with optimization and rss to get long term traffic referrals. I will be looking for your posts about rss and how it can benefit a site.
Thanks, George
February 18th, 2008 at 11:34 am
@George: Tweak page title will get you better result immediately. But good content still the main factor!
February 26th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
“sometimes something as simple as the page title can be overlooked… tweaking the page title is very important!” I think you will find doing this very important!
February 27th, 2008 at 9:14 am
@Graham: Yes, you are right. I can see the effect immediately after tweak the title. BTW, do you found my page through the page title?
March 1st, 2008 at 9:07 am
Hi Ah Tim
Yes i did find your page through the page title