Why link single-post header to Permalink?

I doubt the designer of the theme intended it as a “throwback” to anything.

Most weblogs retain a permalink somewhere on single entry pages for those who wish to copy and paste the link elsewhere. Leaving it in the title just simplifies the design. But you can certainly remove the permalink from your single post’s title if you don’t like it there. Afterall, it’s your blog.

edit single.php of the theme

You just see a lot of blogs doing that, and in fact most of the WordPress themes I’ve seen do that, so I was wondering if there was some kind of tracking involved (there’s a rel= bookmark tag).

Thanks.

I changed the single.php turning the header into a back button.

<div class="post">
<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="javascript:history.go(-1)" title="&nbsp;back.."><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

https://www.hansvandenberk.com

I keep it for SEO purposes, using it as a permalink is helpful because it’s the title of your post, linking to your whole post, rather than having the word “more” linking to all your posts (when using excerpts or the “more” tag – otherwise the word “permalink”), this way it’s specific keywords linking to the information they’re related to. It’s much better for SEO to have “10 ways to make a peanut butter sandwich” linking only to that post about doing so than it is to have “more” or “continue reading” or “permalink” linking to EVERY post you have.

You should know this already, Joel, since you profess on your site to know about SEO friendly sites and writing for search engines! ??

Joel, of course, may not be listening (the thread is nearly a year old, after all…)

As an aside, I keep the permalinks there as much because that is what people are used to when they visit a weblog, as I do for SEO purposes.

LOL That’ll teach me to not check out dates.

Well anyway – maybe we can help someone who sees this in the future… LOL