I have now written on how to optimize the title tags for a variety of blogging software, and I will finish the series of articles with an explanation of how to optimize Movable Type title tags.

The first thing to understand about Movable Type blogging software is that it works a bit differently than other blogging software out there. It is a fairly search engine friendly option out-of-the-box; however, it is my opinion that Word Press is the best.

To optimize Movable Type title tags, you will need to edit one line of code in both the Main Index template file and the Individual Entry Archive template. You cal also tweak the other archive templates too, to achieve similar results.

First, open you Main Index template file and find the line that begins <title>. This line should be near the top of the file. You will be replacing everything from the opening title tag to the end of the title tag line (</title>).

Change the <title> tag line to look like this:

<title><$MTBlogDescription$></title>

Next, open the Individual Entry Archive template and change the same section of code to look like this:

<title><$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$>
 | <$MTBlogDescription$></title>

That’s it! That is all you need to do, and your Movable Type title tags are optimized for better search engine exposure and rankings.

For more information on optimizing other blogging software, please see Optimizing Blogger Title Tags, Optimizing Word Press Title Tags and Optimizing Blogware Title Tags.