Word Press Yoast WordPress SEO: anyone know how to use??

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Word Press Yoast WordPress SEO: anyone know how to use??

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I am looking after a site for someone, and their Title Tags are a mess.

On every page they have <page title> - <homepage title>.

It needs to either be <page title> - <edited titled>
Or just <page title>
... and on the homepage, a customer <page title>.

I can see in Yoast WordPress SEO that you have:
[text]%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%[/text]
In the posts, but I cannot see where you can change the "page" or the Sitename.

'Sep' must just be separate so that's fine. I want the homepage to be the usual stuff, and then the Post pages to just be the title of the post, and maybe a custom text to replace the 'page' bit. I think this is one reason why it's not ranking too well on Search Engines.

I also think the very odd Sitemaps it creates could be a cause, so I want to create a sitemap with a well known online software, and upload that.
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Wow. That's some impressive narcissism he has going on.

You don't change those values yourself: they're predefined.
If you just want the post title then all you need to use is %%title%%
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I don't think it's that - it's just how it was set by default I believe.
So you just have %%title%% for posts, and you can set the Homepage manually??
Wht about Meta Descriptions?
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I'd also recommend taking a look at the theme's header files. I've seen people put all kinds of crazy logic around title tags that often ends up doing more harm than good.
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simonmlewis wrote:So you just have %%title%% for posts, and you can set the Homepage manually??
From what I can tell the homepage has a separate configuration. There should be an admin UI for this (at least that's what I saw in screenshots) - there was a tab for the homepage and one for pages/posts.
simonmlewis wrote:Wht about Meta Descriptions?
Works the same as the page title: assorted tokens you can put into the "template" and the homepage should have a separate configuration.
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