Site Title and Tagline
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In customizing Site Identity we have the option to not display the Site Title and Tagline.
If I fill in the text boxes but uncheck the check box in that area, will the Site Title and Tagline data still go to search engines?
I want to create a custom banner with stroked text via PhotoShop Elements. But I don’t want this to have a negative effect on search engine recognition.
I hope this makes sense. Please ask for clarification if not.
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Hi
I believe that WordPress defaults to the Site Title and the Tagline as the page title.
Looking at your site, the title that will show in search engine results will look something like this:
Earthpages.org | The real alternative
The text under the title is the description which Google might create from the page content or it might default to the tagline.
There are several good articles about SEO in the support documentation including these:If you wanted more control over the content of the page title and description that are used in search engine results pages, you might consider upgrading to a business plan so you can upload an SEO plugin such as Yoast SEO.
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Thanks. I’ve already got good search engine rankings. You are right about what would show.
My question is a bit geeky. What I’m trying to figure out is whether these rankings would suffer if I created my own banner… a banner with Site Title and Tagline text added directly within the banner image, instead of having WordPress generate it.
The reason I want to add it myself is because I’d like to stroke and have more control over the text color. But again, I don’t want to do this if the Site Title and Tagline info/data is no longer forwarded to search engines.
Right now I’m running a deficit with the site so hesitate to go to paid-for plans. Earthpages has always been on the cheap. Like Jesus riding a donkey… integrity before flash. :)
Thanks for your help.
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Hi
Geeky? Not at all ;)
If you use an image banner instead of text the search engines will still use the page Title and Description meta tags which are independent of the page header.
Current wisdom seems to indicate that an image is not so easily read by search engines, therefore it contributes less to your ranking than written text, but with a good Alt tag and Title on the image you can still get some SEO traction out of an image.
Indeed the search engines are getting better at figuring out what images are about so it is becoming less of an issue these days.
Going back to the text vs image issue, I’d recommend that you still use a good, H1 tag at the top of the page to replace the loss of text in the header, just to be sure.
Overall my advise would be don’t use images as headers wthout some real text to assist the search engines.
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Yeah you’re probably right. There is prob some WP employee out there who would definitely know the answer. But I guess they’re too high and mighty to deign to commoners like myself! :)
I used to do manual html b4 coming to WordPress.com. I just tried entering some metadata but it was zapped when saved.
Thanks for your input and ideas. Appreciated.
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Not at all.
Staff members are generally more than happy to help and they do really know their stuff.
I too have not hard coded a website for many years, in fact even got my hands dirty with php for a while.
Platforms like WordPress make it unnecessary and have made things so much faster as well as handing a lot of control to the site owner which can only be a good thing.
Anyway I ramble….
If you are wanting to add metadata to images you can add title, and alt tag via the Media Library.
Page Meta tags can be worked on using a plugin such as Yoast but you need a Business plan as already mentioned.
In the meantime you might spend your time most profitably creating good rich content for your visitors which will also help your SEO.
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