Yoast SEO Homepage Title Tag Tutorial

Yoast SEO Homepage Title Tag Tutorial

By default the Yoast SEO plugin outputs the same homepage title tag format as the Twenty Fourteen theme, the reason for this is under the Yoast options page “SEO” >> “Titles & Metas” : under “Home” tab the default homepage settings are.

%%sitename%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitedesc%%

What the default options output is

Site Title : Archive Page Number : A Separator : The Tagline

This is far from ideal, the best SEO output for the homepage title tag is:

%%sitename%% %%page%%

Site Title : Archive Page Number

This would output the following title tag on the homepage for this site:

<title>SEO Gold</title>

and for homepage archive pages

<title>SEO Gold Page 2</title>

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