I am looking for the best post and page title template

[donsilvernail]

There seems to be a few schools of thought as to how the title templates in the yoast plugin. currently mine are set with the default templates

posts title template (%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%)

page title template (%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%)

What are the best options here for proper SEO. I am learning as much as i can but i have searched for a concrete answer here on the net, but found many different responses. What do you all think?  What is my best option?

[masonrj]

Personally I think it depends on the type of site I'm working with.  An eCommerce retail site and a corporate business page are very different in my book. I also like a simple, easy to read format (for both robots and users).

posts title template (%%title%% %%sep%% %%category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%)

page title template (%%title%%  %%sep%% %%sitename%%)

If your page is optimized for the selected keyword(s), then they will be appearing with the title. I've had good look with it recently.