5 Search Engine Optimization Tips for your WordPress blog
There are hundreds of millions of WordPress blog on the Internet, but most of them are not optimized for search engines. This article explains 5 ways that you can make your WordPress blog more search engine friendly.
1. Make sure that your permalinks are set up optimally for search engine optimization - whenever you publish a blog post it will have a permanent URL known as a “permalink”. By default the WordPress permalink setting is not optimal but you can easily edit this by clicking on the Settings menu in the WordPress dashboard and then use a custom setting such as yourdomainname.com/category/postname. This will mean that your blog post category and title will appear in the URL rather than a number.
2. Install the All in One Search Engine Optimization SEO Pack (or a another similar plugin) - the All in One SEO services Pack plugin allows you to add a custom title, meta description and keyword tags for your home page and blog posts.
3. Social bookmarking service uses bookmarks for each blog post - when you post to your blog using the social bookmarking service E.g. Digg or StumbleUpon. There are also services such as OnlyWire and SocialMarker allows you to submit your site to multiple bookmarking service at the same time. Social bookmarking can get you additional traffic to your blog and give you a backlink to your blog post.
4. Optimize the home page of your blog - it is normal for the home page of your blog to get more traffic then any of the other pages. You can increase the number of visitors even more by optimizing your home page. Pick 1-2 keyword phrases for your home page using a keyword research tool such as the Google AdWords keyword tool and choose one or two phrases that are related to your niche. Ideally, these phrases should be a few thousand dollars, the monthly search and competition, and should not be too harsh. To ensure that you include in the title tag, meta description, and the entire contents of your blog home page a permanent reference to these keyword phrases.
5. Install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin - this won’t increase your search engine rank, but having a sitemap will help to ensure that the search engines index all the posts and pages of your blog. You can use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to create a sitemap for your blog map.
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