Comments on: Making Titles Live Links

By: Herbjörn

Herbjörn — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:13:38 +0000

Hi. I would like to know what made you change your mind and not have every page title a permalink.

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Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:43:04 +0000

[...] Make sure the title is a clickable web link – this improves both usability and search engine ranking. ProBlogger offers more on this in a post titled: Making Titles Live Links [...]

By: Harrison L.

Harrison L. — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 03:41:01 +0000

Hi, this is the first time i post here. I’m using wordpress for my blog but the link inside is permalink. How can I change it to an active link? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thank you

By: Golfer

Golfer — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:54:53 +0000

Good Live Link tips!

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:21:43 +0000

Search engine optimization is one of the big reasons I chose WordPress over Movable Type; it’s much better optimized out of the box, and much easier to make SE friendly. It has live links out of the box, for instance.

The other reasons being WordPress runs on anything, is simple to install and maintain, and is open source. And the theme system is far more flexible, since you can literally do anything you want to. (Whether that’s a good idea is another discussion entirely.)

As a result, I’m now #1 in Google for most of my targeted keywords, and strangely enough, for my own name, even though there are far more famous people with my name, who are baseball players, musicians and the like.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:11:28 +0000

You are absolutely right. I just thanked you in an entry for pointing out the fact that my site didn’t have live title links, but I came here to do it as well. It’s an easy template fix in Movable Type. I’m going to assume that you don’t allow HTML in comments so change the parens to brackets where appropriate.

Add this around your ($MTEntryTitle$) tag in your template:

(a href=”($MTEntryPermalink$)”)($MTEntryTitle$)(/a)

The trick is modifying your style sheet if you have your links styled in such a way that the headline being a link changes the appearance into something you don’t want (or worse, the default link colors). I had to move some things around in my style sheet, but all is well now.

Thanks again!

By: A View from Home

A View from Home — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:00:17 +0000

Live title links

From ProBlogger: One of the first tips I was given when i started to blog that I’ve not talked about for a while here is to consider making the titles of your posts live links (permalinks). These days most blogging…

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:22:51 +0000

And, ideally, your blogging software will separate the words in your permalink with hyphens ('-') instead of underscores ('_'), which are much more Google-friendly according to Matt Cutts. I had to modify the version of blojsom that I use to do just that, although it's fixed for the latest version.

By: FMF

FMF — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:35:39 +0000

Cary –

Thanks for the advice!!

FMF

By: Kavithan

Kavithan — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:17:19 +0000

Good tips you gave me.. Thank you.

By: Cary

Cary — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:46:58 +0000

FMF, I used to have my blog on TypePad, and I had it set up this way, but you have to have a PRO account because you have to be able to edit the templates…

Unfortunately I don’t have the code for it anymore, or I’d be happy to share it, but I figured it out using TypePad’s documentation for Template Tags.

If you open a ticket with TypePad’s technical support they can probably help you.

Good luck!

By: FMF

FMF — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:02:34 +0000

Darren –

Can you do this on Typepad? If so, do you know how (or does anyone else)? Maybe that’s why Micro Persuasion doesn’t have titles as permalinks?

FMF

By: sara

sara — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:30:39 +0000

Great information you have there. “Daddy-Yankee

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:29:59 +0000

Great overall subject and great advice from John and Cary in particular. I’m very new to blogging but have been using a website to build my business for some time now.

The ’secrets’ of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), getting listed in Google, building traffic and clicks, etc. are not really ’secrets’ at all.

Make the web site (blog) useful to those who want to find something useful and they will return and refer you to others. Google and other search engines are really just ‘dumber than usual’ users … give them paths (links) to crawl and they will.

I’m going to get my titles live now and look into the “Related Posts” plug-in ASAP …

By: Aj

Aj — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:08:08 +0000

Darren

I just noticed the date and time on all your comments are links too, Does this help in anyway?

By: Aj (beerofthetrip)

Aj (beerofthetrip) — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:02:31 +0000

I have been thinking about this myself over the weekend, as I have implemented a single Adsense Ad in the post in Blogger just like Darrens.

I like the idea of linking the post title back to the index, Cheers.

My question now is should the “posted by” and “comments” links go at the top of the post or the bottom?

By: Thomas BRESSE's Edicted Blog

Thomas BRESSE's Edicted Blog — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:57:33 +0000

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By: Cary

Cary — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:19:39 +0000

Del, from looking at your Gabbr site, it looks like you already have it set up this way :) Your post title links to the permanent post page….

By: jesse

jesse — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:48:26 +0000

ahg. All the tage got taken out.

post body: <$blogitembody$>
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By: Christoph Hoerl

Christoph Hoerl — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:47:30 +0000

Permalinks in the titles are also useful when you use the del.icio.us extension in Firefox. There you need a link click on to bookmark the page. But the bookmark for del.icio.us is a better idea.