I experimented something, researched a bit and found a little trick. If you are a blogger and using WordPress then surely you have got a theme. I am going to discuss something about head section of your theme and recommending you some customization in the header.php file of your theme. There are a lot of themes available online but they share only necessary elements. To go further you have to customize it a bit for optimal performance. Lets have a look.
Did you just open your header.php file in your favorite editor? No? I did not expect that too yet. Alright first you will go through the article. Here it is.
Consider the section between starting title tag and ending at following element:
Normally all themes would have such elements in between this section:
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<script src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/js/somejsfile.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>My recommendations are as following:
<title>
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
<?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?>
<?php wp_title(); ?> <?php if ( is_home() ) { ?> | <?php bloginfo('description'); } ?>
</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="http://www.yourdomainname.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" />
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.yourdomainname.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="PHPMagicBook Visual RSS Feed"
href="href="feedburner feeds url" />
<script src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/js/somejsfile.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<meta name="verify-v1" content="googlecode" />Ignore javascript and css files link code as this can be different for every website and every theme has this already.
So where is the difference:
<title>
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
<?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?>
<?php wp_title(); ?> <?php if ( is_home() ) { ?> | <?php bloginfo('description'); } ?>
</title>
<link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="http://www.yourdomainname.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" />
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.yourdomainname.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Blog name Visual RSS Feed" href="feedburner feeds url" />
<meta name="verify-v1" content="googleVERIFICATIONcode" />Five steps:
- Look in between title tags. I have added some new elements to customize title a bit.
- Add wlwmanifest xml element
- Add rsd xml element
- Add Feed URL from feedburner, If you use feedburner service
- Add Google Verification Code (Google webmaster tools)
These customizations are not necessary but can drive traffic dramatically towards your blog.
Google Verification Code and Google Sitemap
- Go to Google Webmaster Tools
- Get an account
- Tell Google About your website and and get Verification key and add it in your head section
- Tell Google about your sitmape URL
That’s it. Was this tip useful? Do you recommend anything else?
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