Title Tag seo, where is it?

  • I notice when I deactivate Yoast I cannot find where enter title tag for SEO.. Where is that generally? Thanks. (I want to delete Yoast)

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  • That option is offered by the plugin, not WordPress.

    As Joy said, there are no SEO-specific settings in WordPress. Most themes will use the particular post/page’s title (ie headline) as the title tag, and the excerpt as the description meta tag.

    That’s why plugins like Yoast SEO, AIO SEO, etc exist… to give site owners full control over these SEO and social media tags (eg so your title tag can be different from your page title or headline.)

    Actually, George is a little inaccurate. Most themes in the WP repository (following the WP requirements) use the WP function for handling the title tag and do not output any <meta> tags, as that is plugin functionality.

    Thread Starter kevs23

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    Thanks Joy, I’m trying nuke as many plug ins as possible. Can I set title and description for the homepage somewhere? and how? if have screenshots.

    That option is offered by the plugin, not WordPress.

    You could make your own little plugin to set whatever you want, but it makes more sense to use the plugins that are written by people knowledgeable on the topic, and are already tested to work, and maintained for changes to SEO and WP.

    Thread Starter kevs23

    (@kevs23)

    So you need a plug in to set title/ description for homepages?

    Thread Starter kevs23

    (@kevs23)

    Without plug ins then what are titles and descriptions of websites? NOthing? I find amazing there is not some standard place enter that info for just those two key items.

    There is an old misconception that there is value in setting <meta> tags. But if you do any research on SEO these days, you find that the search engine only uses that if there is no other information on the page, if then.
    The <title> tag is set by WordPress to be the page title. You can modify it using a plugin.

    You can make a child theme and hard code what you want into the <head> section, but it is used for every page, not just the home page. I think that’s what most plugins do: add an action for wp_head and output the excerpt as the <meta> description. There is a place in the editor to manually add an excerpt for each page. If you don’t the content is used to generate one.

    Thread Starter kevs23

    (@kevs23)

    Joy, thanks bit over my head. So used on html old site to do title and description on home page and other pages. Title still is big deal.

    While searching for something for another topic, I came across this article that I think you should read. https://yvoschaap.com/weblog/googles_supervising_ranking_algorithm_exposed

    Thread Starter kevs23

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    Article bit over my head, not sure what saying so convoluted.

    Summary of that article: a search professional theorizes about how Google really works, using years of experience to draw upon, and says that fiddling with supposed “SEO details” does nothing because Google is managing the rankings based on the entire search volume, not just one search.
    Basically, don’t stress about it. Write for humans, not search engines.

    Thread Starter kevs23

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    Still a ton of articles that say title tag is huge factor.

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