By Bey Luen Chung
WordPress is an excellent blogging platform. WordPress itself is a pretty well structured and optimized. It does a good job at allowing every single page to be indexed by search engines easily.
However it can still be improved further to get higher rankings in search engines. Here are 5 simple yet important SEO tips.
1. Use Friendly Permalink Structure
There are some debate which permalink structure is the best for SEO. Whichever you choose you must include the title of the post within the URL. It is no point in creating keyword rich titles if they don't actually show up in the URL.
2. Create Keyword Rich Post Titles
The 2nd tip is to create keyword rich post titles for every post. The keywords must be relating to the content that you have written. It is important that you make the title interesting to attract people clicking on it.
3. Optimize Meta Description Tag
Meta description is a very important tag in SEO. It allows you to control the description showing in the search engine result pages. You can put in your keywords to strengthen SEO effects. Besides, writing interesting meta description can help potential readers to click on your link.
4. Generate XML Sitemaps
XML sitemaps is essential for search engines to know how many content in your blog. It doesn't help your search engine rankings but it helps search engines to index your web pages.
5. Optimize Your Post Content
The last tip is to write content with optimization in mind. You should repeat a few times the keyword you are targeting in various places in your post.
Chung Bey Luen is an online entrepreneur from Singapore. He is focusing on SEO, social bookmarking, social networking and various traffic attraction strategies. He is actively blogging at SEO blog [http://www.bloghighlight.com].
Bey Luen is also the creator of Definitive WordPress SEO Guide e-book [http://www.bloghighlight.com/definitive-wordpress-seo].
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