SEO Tips For Your WordPress Blog

By Bryan Joseph King 

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.



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 yoursitename/yourpostname . 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.



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.


I am Bryan Joseph King and I'm a programmer and at the same time doing SEO and I'm here to share tips on how to optimize your site or blog. Hope these tips of mine will be a help to you and bring more traffic to your blog/site.

I'm the owner of http://yourdailyguide.org/ and Your Daily Guide is a site where you can get news and information about search engine optimization, improving your WordPress blog, programming tips, and other things that are related to the internet.

Get More Traffic To Your WordPress Blog With These 5 SEO Tips

By Roger Weavers 

SEO is pretty much the same for most websites. Whether you have a static site or a blog you still need to focus on the same elements and ranking factors. There are many plug-ins available for WordPress to help you with SEO but you still need to understand the basics to use these plug-ins correctly. Here are my 5 top tips to improve the rankings of your WordPress blog.

1: Use a SEO Plug-in and change your permalinks

There are many on page factors that the search engines use to decide how well your website will rank. The plug-in I recommend for this is WordPress SEO by Yoast. There are other similar SEO plug-ins but I think that Yoast is the most powerful.

Yoast checks 13 different elements of your posts and pages including making sure your keyword appear in the correct places on the page and it also checks the quality of your content. Google assigns a quality score you your content, a high score will help improve your rankings. The higher your quality score the less backlinks you will need to achieve top rankings.

One thing that is very important is to use keywords in your page URLs. By default WordPress will assign numbers to each page, to get your URLs created with your keyword simply go to "settings" > "Permalinks" and select "postname"

2: How to avoid duplicate content.

Some of the inbuilt functions of WordPress can actually cause SEO problems for you. If you use "Tags" and "Categories" this can create duplicate content and affect your rankings. There are many mis-conceptions about duplicate content but my understanding is that when Google detects duplicate content, whether on the same website or different websites it will choose a copy of the content to be the master copy and this will rank in Google's primary index. All other copies will be relegated to the secondary index.

By using many Tags and Categories you may create duplicate content, a tag page with one post on it will be virtually identical to the actual post page and if Google determines that the tag page is the master it may not rank as well as the actual post page. The same thing can happen with category pages. I recommend you do not use tags and if you use category pages make sure that you have at least 2 or 3 posts in each category and provide a detailed description at the top of each category page.

3: Build Trust using Internal Linking.

It is useful to have a good internal linking structure on your blog. Creating "in text links" to other related pages will help search engine index your site and improve you rankings by linking relevant pages together. There is a plug-in that creates these "in text links" but from what I have seen it does not work very well and can cause problems. Therefore I recommend you create "in text" links manually. There is a plug-in that I do use which lists a number of related posts at the end of each post. This seems to work better.

Another type of link you can use in your posts is outbound links to authority websites. Don't do this too often but a few links out to authority sites will give your blog more trust.

4: Gain Backlinks Using "Trackbacks and Pingbacks"

With any website, when optimising for competitive keywords you will need to get some backlinks to improve your rankings. There are many ways to do this and there are some methods built-in to WordPress and other plug-ins available to help you.

WordPress has two built in functions called "Trackbacks and Pingbacks". This enables you to get links from other blogs that have these functions enabled. When you add a link to another blog in your post the other blog owner will receive a trackback, if they approve the trackback a link will appear in the comments section of their post you linked to with a link back to your blog.

 5: Gain More Backlinks Using Comments

A useful plug-in to gain more backlinks is CommentLuv. This allows people that also use CommentLuv to leave a comment on your blog with a link back to their latest blog post. To get backlinks to your site you must visit other blogs using CommentLuv and leave a comment. You should also leave comments on blogs that are not using CommentLuv, you won't get a link with keyword rich anchor text but you will still get a link. Make sure you leave a useful comment and you will get readers clicking through to your blog.

There are many more ways to improve the rankings of your blog, some you will find on my blog so click on the link in the bio to visit and find out more.

Roger Weavers runs [http://www.sytecweb.co.uk]Sytec Web Design from Folkestone in Kent. He specialises in search engine optimisation and also offers a complete web design and Internet marketing service. Roger also runs a web hosting service as well as a number of websites providing information about website building, ecommerce and web audio. Read more at Roger's Blog, [http://www.rogerweavers.com]SEO Help & Advice.

Best WordPress SEO Tips

By David Ogram 

There are quite a few things that you need to do to get best WordPress SEO results and below are some tips:

Don't rush into setting up your site.

It is a mistake to set-up a site and then think about SEO. To achieve best WordPress SEO it is vital to do some research at the beginning to select the right keywords and domain name. You need to build the site around keywords that are not too competitive but have an acceptable volume of searches. One of these keywords should be in the domain name (at the beginning if possible).

If you were to pick very competitive keywords it would require a great deal of work (and in practice may be impossible) to get a high search engine ranking.

Structure the site in a search engine friendly way.

For best WordPress SEO purposes you should ensure that the title of the pages and posts is used in the URL. This is done via the Permalink setting which should be "postname".

You should also create information and legal pages and link to them from the header or footer. These are pages like About Us, Contact Us, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

If you create a lot of pages make them all accessible in two clicks from the home page. The pages and posts should be interlinked using the keywords as anchor text but you can install a plugin to help with this.

Install some WordPress SEO plugins.

There are numerous SEO plugins available which will help achieve best WordPress SEO but many have similar functions. There are several multifunction "SEO packs" and you should install one of these. "All in One SEO Pack" is very popular but some people now prefer the slightly more advanced "Platinum SEO Pack". You can start with the default settings but it is worthwhile learning what the plugin does.

You should also install a site map plugin to help the search engines to find and index the content.

Other plugins will contribute to best WordPress SEO by, for example:

Tiding up URLs.
Managing Redirections & 404 errors.
Automatic link generation.
Checking for broken links.
No Follow external links.
Control paging of comments.
Checking SEO of content.

If you install any of these you should understand what they are doing.

Don't do anything that will have a negative impact

Be careful not to overuse your keywords and make sure your outbound links are to reputable sites only.

Produce good content.

Content is key to best WordPress SEO. You need unique content written in a way that is search engine friendly but is still highly readable by human visitors. The aim is for the search engines to see your content as relevant to the targeted keyword without it being in any way written for them. A good way to check the SEO of your content is to use the SEOPressor plugin.

SEOPressor gives a percentage score and tells you what you need to do to improve it. It therefore directly helps achieve [http://seo-plugin.net/best-wordpress-seo]Best WordPress SEO. It also acts as a training tool because on page SEO means remembering lots of little things and after you have corrected them a few times they start to become automatic. To learn more about SEOPressor [http://seo-plugin.net/go]Click Here.

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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