Careful What Characters You Use In WordPress
admin on Mar 22 2008 at 12:15 am | Filed under: Technology, wordpress
HughesTech Labs:
Because of the coding nature of WordPress’ Title, you can have major problems with Google seeing the correct words….
It would be best to avoid using the apostrophe character in the title of your WordPress posts, or Google will not see the word you used the apostrophe character on!
Case in point: Our Sister site had a Digg post earlier today, the title that they used read:
Weather In God’s Hands?
They simply copied and pasted the title from their WordPress Blog into Digg.
Everything looked fine as a Digg post, but Google did not see it that way, and one keyword from the title of the post could never be found searching at Google!
Why? Beacuse the encoded title from WordPress Actualy looked like this to Google:
Go-to to the actual post today and look at the title, then look at the source code of the page. You will even see it in the main title tag.
You can see what I am talking about, the most important keyword was botched, so the moral of this story is never use the apostrophe character in your WordPress title of your Post….
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