How to SEO Your WordPress Blog

June 6, 2010 Leave a Comment

WordPress is one of the most seo friendly publishing systems today, but to get the best results you still need to tinker with it a little bit!

So let’s see what steps you need to take to modify WordPress so it will turn into a true seo CMS:

1. Permalinks structure: the default structure is no good at all – although search engines have no problem in indexing pages that have urls with variables, it’s very clear that they prefer clean urls.

The best results I have seen are when permalinks structure is set to “%postname%”, and only that. This is something to keep in mind for any site you build, WordPress or any other CMS.

2. Related posts plugin : this is good for both your visitors and the search engines. It automatically finds related posts and displays them in a list – very useful when visitors arrive on a page looking for something and they get more info on the same subject. [Read more...]

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Can you ever have enough SEO for your blog?

June 6, 2010 Leave a Comment

We all know that search engine optimization is the way to promote your work via your WordPress blog, so together with SEO plugins for your blog, and more SEO plugins for your blog, we now have more SEO plugins for your blog. So altogether you should now be able to attract lots of traffic, manipulate your blogs and pages to do just about anything that is remotely SEO related. That can’t be bad can it?

So here are some more plugins which should make your day. [Read more...]

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