The purpose of writing blogs is so you can have people viewing and communicating with you. There are many types of blogs from business blogs to personal blogs, sports blogs, and so on. For what ever type of blog you have you more than likely are going to want to drive more traffic to your blog. It does not make sense to work so hard on your blog and not have the best chance of gaining more traffic because your blog is not seo optimized. I am going to show you some tips on how to seo your wordpress blog.
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Change your permalinks. From the dashboard click on settings then click permalinks copy and paste this /%postname%/ into the custom structure box. What this does is very important since instead of the url saying ?p=123 it will put in the title of your post which is keyword rich to what your page is about.
- Change single posts and page titles. By default this is set to show the blogs default title plus the post title. This is not optimal since the blogs title is going to be on each and every page, You want just the post title to show up so the keywords do net get diluted. This is one thing I see most blogs are missing and I think it one of the most important.
The easiest way is to go to the all in one seo pack and change the post format to %post_title% and the page title format to %page_title%.
2B.Change widgets heading tag By default your widgets are set to h2 tags I recommenced changing these to h4 tags . Here is how you can change your widget heading tags.
3.Install All in One Seo Pack Plugin
This plugin will allow you to easily generate title tags for your posts, keyword meta tags and meta descriptions.
4. Install Google XML Sitemaps Plugin This plug in will automatically generate a google xml sitemap when you create a new post and update the xml sitemap letting know all the search engines you have new content.
5.Install Robots Mega Plugin This neat plugin allows you to specify each and every post individually whether it should be index or not. You can also prevent indexing of your blogs search results page, login pages, register pages, author and date based archives, tag and categories if you so do choose. I have tags set not to index but my categories page to index. You can also set your outbound links with a nofollow tag and your internal category pages with the nofollow tag.
6. Install Sociable Plugin
Although this plug in of itself will not help in the seo it does allow you and your users the ability to easily submit to social network and bookmarking sites which will help you in turn get deep internal backlinks to your posts.
7. No Follow Case By Case Do you want to have a do follow blog but only want to reward loyal or quality comments,then no follow case by case would be for you, I have yet to try this plugin as my blog is still a do follow blog without restrictions. You are best to have a comment policy in place saying you will do follow loyal visitors and no follow of course spam comments and useless comments. So with this plugin you can have the best of both worlds you can keep from losing link juice on spammy comments and reward frequent visitors who post quality comments.
8. Make sure your title for your posts and pages use the H1 tag by default your post and page titles are set to the h2 tag you should change this to h1. You should also make sure you only have one h1 tag per page.
9. Use images this will be helpful for the google images engine make sure you have an alt tag with a keyword rich description.
10. Install Popular Post Plugin You want your most popular posts on your sidebar since these are the most visited pages, you want these pages to benefit from your internal linking structure. I have my popular post widget set to twenty post but you can do as many as you like.
11. Claim your blog on Technorati this is the top blog aggregators and search engine for blogs and will help your blog posts get index quicker.
If you believe there is any other plugins or methods to help optimized your wordpress blog I would to hear them, these are some of the tools I use. I hope you find them useful. I will be posting in the future the top must have plugins for your blog. Now you have wordpress blog setup the work does not end up here. You will still have to utilize more seo methods to increase your (serp) rankings such as link building, anchor text, internal linking but remember rome wasn’t built in a day and search engine optimization is a long time consuming process but the long term benefits pay dividends down the road.
If this is to much and you would rather pay someone to setup and optimize your wordpress blog you can contact me and I would be more than happy to help you out at an affordable cost.
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#1 Rewrite Titles is becoming less relevant with time and should be considered carefully before implementing on established sites. Changing url’s on established sites without implementing some kind of 301 redirect policy can be virtually detrimental to previous link work.
Use #1 with out consulting an SEO professional only on new installations of WordPress Sites.
The other recommendations are great suggestions for successful SEO.
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All in One Seo Pack & Google XML Sitemaps plugins are hust have plugins for seo purpose
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The first plugin i download and use is all in one seo, saves so much time in the longrun
I am just testing out how this keyword luv stuff works. thanks.
Thanks for information. I am looking into starting a blog and its always good to know what I will need to include before selecting a blogging platform.
#8 Make sure your title for your posts use the H1 tag.
That’s not really a good idea. The H1 tag should only be used on static pages, not something like a blog.
Use H2 instead.
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Everytime I set up a blog a change the default permalink settings to the more search engine url settings where the url is the name of the post. I also make sure to have the All In One Seo Plugin installed so I can have better control over the page attributes like title tags and meta descriptions. I also like to use only Wordpress themes with clean and simple code so the pages are quick and not draining alot of bandwidth. I have a blog hosting site so saving bandwidth is definetly a priority for me.
Can you tell me who did your layout? I have been looking for one kind of like yours. Thank you.
@Anthony I am going to take your recommendation and change that tip to say utilize the h2 tag.
@ Chris Yes I agree it should be done on new sites only and if you do it on an older site make sure you have someone who can properly do the 301 redirect so you don’t lose pr and have internal linking issues.
@Fun Director Click on the link below it is by Brian Gardner
I’ve been using keywordluv for ages it seems, and akismet for my filter. I haven’t gotten into the finer nuances of web blogging, but I’ll get there one day.
I like the idea of having the post title under an H1 tag. This is a great SEO practice. Then, within the document, use H2 headers to highlight section within your post. I also really like the related posts plugin as it provides keyword rich links to all of your articles. Just my 2 cents.
Thanks for the great blog,
Richard
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Now thats what i call a good read, i have bookmarked your site and will certainly be reading more of your posts.
The permanent links and post title are 2 things most people should do. I see alot of sites that do not fix the problem and they wonder why they have hard time getting pages ranked well. Good post some great tips.
All good advice about optimizing your blog for effective page rankings. Please don’t forget the original premise of your article on the purpose of the blog: people communicating with you. And that’s done effectively with good writing: strong grammar and diligent punctuation and engaging content–all need to be seriously considered. Remember the best orators in the senate are always the ones remembered and generating a following.
You got a nice blog. I also started one but I could find the ideas to posts everyday so I started posting famous quotes and sayings it is becoming quite popular. You might like to check it out.
Sorry for the self promotion
It would help if you can blogroll me…
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Daisy
The all-in-one plugin is very nice and makes everything so much more simple.
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Awesome article! I have gradually become fan of your article and would like to suggest putting some new updates for more knowledge.
Well, you have the idea and info..sharing information if good will always benefit others.
Great post! I love the All in One SEO Pack Plugin–it takes a lot of the hassle out of SEO.
I have a suggestion. instead of using all-in-one seo pack, its much better to use the platinum-seo plugin for wordpress.
I have been using the %postname% feature for years and find it to be one of the most important features when setting up a blog. However, I have noticed that many “big name” SEO sites still use the old post number, post date, post id default.
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I think the case by case do follow is a good idea, although it may prove to be very time consuming. I think do follow does get abused and it is unfair to people who actually contribute to watch others spam the board and still get the same quality link.
Hello. I just noticed there aren’t any list of the Do-Follow blogs anymore…but I’ve got a question [I'm still kinda new in d seo thingy] if you could assist me with. Are “No-Follow” links completely irrelevant to google? cos there was a site i pasted a link on, i clearly saw it was a “no-follow” link [with the seo firefox thing] but google soon acknowledged it, and credited me for it.
Thanks for valuable information. Do-Follow helps to encourage bloggers to comment on others blog as if i am not getting any benefit i will avoid to comment on others blog and with comments some time you get new information on old posts. commenting is nice way to upgrade your post for your readers. So it also beneficial for the Bloggers.
Yup! Comments encourage people to write even more. They are like psychic wages that inspire you. On the other hand, they also offer constructive criticism by which you can improve.
nice work! I thought promoting a site is just a matter of submiting your site to vatious directories and social bookmarks.
Very well thought out and informative. I’m sure many others enjoy reading this too, but are just a little scared to post – anyway – thanks again!
Yea, all of the above are on my standard checklist for a new wordpress blog. I’m not quite sure I agree about removing your site title from all of your page and post title tags, though. You could say it dilutes it, but you could also say that it offers more relevancy on each page for your internal linking and domain as a whole.
@ Noah You still have the option of keeping your site title in their manually but not every page is going to be focused on the same keywords. Thanks for commenting.
This is really a great seo plugin post. One important plugin I got to learn about from this post is the popularity plugin I think this is something I would definitely want to use.
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commentluv and keywordluv both are good for blog searching. but could you tell me how can i find only do follow blog with the help of both of plugging.
Thank you for sharing this nice information on SEO tips. Keywordluv is indeed a very nice plugin from Wordpress. It allows one to use keywords in the names field. Also it increases traffic onto your website. Its justa nice way to reward the readers who spend their precious time on your blog.
Thanks for these tips, though at the moment they’re of no use to me but in a month or so I will need them. I am planning to setup a wordpress blog on a hosting package soon but still thinking on which topic I would focus my blog on. I definitely want it to be SEO optimized and want to drive a lot of traffic! I’ve bookmarked your post. Thank you buddy!
I’ve been following your articles for some time now. They are really great, and interesting reads. By the way, absolutely love KeywordLuv!
I’ve been reading along for a while now. I’ll download the All in One SEO Pack Plugin,it seems great plugin.I just wanted to drop you a comment to say keep up the good work.
I would recommend using headspace plugin over all in one seo because its simple to use and also it solves all the need for on page seo.
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