5 WordPress SEO Tips to Higher Rankings

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].

WordPress SEO Tips - 5 Ways to Optimize Your WordPress Blog

By Jim Woolley 

WordPress is an excellent platform to use if you want to run your own blog because it's structure and design enables it to get very good results in the search engines. However it can still be improved further, so here's 5 simple WordPress SEO tips:

1. Create keyword rich post titles.

It's important to note that you don't just want to write posts for your regular readers because you want to attract many new readers as well. So to do this you want to write post titles that contain the keywords relating to the content that you have just written.

2. Create a strong permalink structure.

It's open to debate which permalink structure is the best for SEO purposes, but whichever one you choose you must use one which includes the title of the post within the URL. It's no good creating keyword rich titles if they don't actually show up in the URL for that particular post, so this is an absolute must.

3. Install the All-In-One SEO plugin.

There are a few SEO plugins that all do pretty much the same thing but this is the one I personally use. It basically enables you to create fully optimized blog posts. You can list keywords and tags for each post and you can also arrange the title and meta descriptions for every one of your posts. Plus you can also 'nofollow' certain pages on your blog so overall it's a very useful plugin.

4. Install the Google Sitemaps plugin.

This is another plugin that I recommend using for all your WordPress blogs. It basically allows you to automatically submit your pages to Google whenever you create new posts on your blog. So you therefore know that Google will always be indexing your site.

5. Build lots of backlinks.

Finally you should of course create lots of backlinks to your site. This is arguably the most important point because you need lots of backlinks to compete for the more popular keywords. If you can combine both onpage and offpage SEO techniques then you should have a very popular blog on your hands.

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