Sep 05
SEO Tips for your Wordpress Blog
A lot of blogs are using wordpress because it is one of the most seo-friendly Content Management System (CMS). So here i am going to list some seo tips to improve your wordpress blog. These are important things to get your wordpress blog optimized. It will help you gain more traffic and rank better in search engines like google, yahoo, msn, etc.
- Install Wordpress Plugins
You can get a lot of free plugins online and they will help a lot in optimizing your blog. You can view an article of mine that lists the Best SEO Plugins for Wordpress. - Optimize permalinks
The default permalink is not seo-friendly and should be changed right away. For me, the most seo-friendly would be to use /%postname%/ which will make something like this http://yourdailyguide.org/ways-to-increase-link-popularity/ . You can change your permalink by going to Settings >> Permalinks and choose custom structure and input /%postname%/ . - Optimize page titles
Page titles are the most important in your single page and should be placed between h1 tags. Titles should be short but keyword-rich. - Remove hyperlink of the Title of your single posts
I saw a lot of blogs that hyperlinks the title of their single posts and this is no longer needed since it will still link on the same page. You can easily edit it at Presentation and edit the single.php file. - Validate your code
There are a lot of tools online that you can use to validate your code. By validating your code, it will help search engines to crawl your site easier. This requires knowledge in web design to fix these codes so if you can’t do it, you can hire a web developer to do it for you. I am using this tool to validate my code. - Add Meta Keywords and Description
Always add meta keywords and description to your blogs because it will help the search engines to identify what kind of blog you have. Choose your keywords wisely (means that you choose keywords that are not so competitive but has a good search volume). - Deep-Linking your posts
Deep-linking is where a post of yours links to another related post of yours. Choose the keywords to hyperlink wisely, choose the one that fits most to the post that you’ll be linking.
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September 5th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
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September 5th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
great post… thanks
what about websites and their extension pages…. im mean sub pages and spam …. can you confirm….. what is spam and whats not???/ keywords meta all that
September 5th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
what spam? are you talking about spam comments? If that’s your problem, you can install akismet plugin.
September 6th, 2009 at 1:15 am
I have a problem in indexing my new wordpress indexed but dont showing title and descrption in google plz check it and guide me this my my blog url http://pkbabes.com
September 6th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Great article. I really found it useful. Keep up the good work!
September 6th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Nice tips indeed! would like to implement on my wp blog.. thank u
September 6th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Great tips man I shared it with our blog forum members!
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It’s so important to follow all SEO suggestions I’m getting amazing SE ranking from taking the most simple steps!
September 6th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
@Nabil and Joe
ur welcome guys! goodluck and more traffic to your blogs…
@bbrian07
Thanks for spreading it man! =)
September 6th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
@Sattarmalik
You may want to check your meta tags and if ever you don’t have it, then add those cause google takes the title and description from your meta tags.
September 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Nice tips, I just downloaded a few wordpress seo plugins now and I’m about to install them. I currently use numbers for my url’s, which probably isn’t the most seo friendly. However, I have a lot of links to my blog already, so changing the permalinks would probably do more damage than it’s worth.
September 6th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Very good Article I found it to be very useful. Thanks.
September 6th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Thanks for reply but my blog has some problem with robot.txt even i allowed google but in webmaster tool when i test crawler test it says that search engine is restricted from access to robots ????/
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September 7th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Very good article. I just confuse about permalink between %postname%.html or %postname%/
which one is better for seo?
September 7th, 2009 at 1:11 am
@sattarmalik
Try removing the disallow lines in your robots.txt. That might fix the problem.
September 7th, 2009 at 1:12 am
@MasterG
For me they are just the same, but the difference is, the one with .html will make it look like a site rather than a blog.
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September 7th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
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September 10th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Thanks a lot for the tips, especially Deep-Linking.
September 11th, 2009 at 7:10 am
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September 11th, 2009 at 11:02 am
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September 12th, 2009 at 3:07 am
@koji
ur welcome =) hope it’ll help in improving your blog.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Your Page contains very good information about optimizing a wordpress blog for search engines. Thanks for the information
September 13th, 2009 at 3:23 am
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September 13th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Very Good tips on wordpress I will subscribe to your feed. Hope for more of your tips keep up the great work.
Pete Balasch Jr
September 13th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Thanks, sure, i’ll be posting more seo tips soon so goodluck to you.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:18 am
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September 18th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Very nice information. Thanks for this.
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September 28th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Deep linking got me thinking and inspired my newest addon that will help with that aspect of my blog. Thanks for the list.
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What do you mean? you can’t subscribe to my RSS Feed?
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:36 am
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October 2nd, 2009 at 11:54 am
@Forex Forum
Glad to hear that. Goodluck!
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
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