Continuing with the series on optimizing title tags for blogging software, I will now explain how to optimize the title tags for a Blogware blog. Blogware blog title tags are not especially search engine optimized by default, but as with most blogging software the optimization of the title tags is a simple modification that can be made to the template.

To alter the arrangement of the title tags in your Blogware software you must replace one line of code in your template. The line of code to alter is found in the header of your site, and starts with “<title>” and ends with “</title>” – this should be one line of code near the top of your template.

Once you have found this section of your template, you will need to replace it with the following code:

<title>{{if article.categories}}{{if page.title}}
{{page.title}} | {{blog.name}}{{/if}}{{elsif category.label}}
{{if category.label eq "Main Page"}}{{blog.name}}{{else}}
{{category.label}} | {{blog.name}}{{/if}}{{/if}}</title>

(PS: You should place the above code, all on one line in your template)

This will cause your Blogware title tags to display only the blog’s name for the home page; the category name and blog name for category pages; and the title of the article on any post page.

There are a number of variations that you can use to create a wide range of custom title tag arrangements for your blog. Of course you may also replace the “|” with any suitable character or HTML entity to further enhance the style of your Blogware title tag.

Enjoy!

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