Make Google love your WordPress blog - 7 tips
As you install your WordPress Blog keep in mind that there are things you can do to optimize for search engine indexing. WordPress right out of the box doesn’t include the plugins you will need or even the settings within the WordPress admin area that need to be tweaked. Here are some of the ways you can optimize your WordPress blog for SEO.
1. Using good headlines for your Title - Make sure your titles are thought out and make them compelling. They should also use the H2 tag so check your CSS file and make sure they are using H2 tag.
2. Permalink structure - Log in to WordPress admin area. Go to options then permalinks. Select Custum and enter %postname% in the field. Be sure to save changes before navigating to another page. This will change the url’s from http://www.domain.com/P?21 to something like http://www.domain.com/blog-optimization-tips
3. Related Posts - Use the related posts plugin. This will display a certain number of posts at the bottom of each post. You determine how many to select. This helps with your internal linking and get all of your posts indexed. This is a very important one to have. Additionally it will compel readers to stay longer and click on other posts you have written.
4. Inbound Links - Get incoming links to your site with as high of a pagerank as you possibly can. You can link from your social sites, bookmark sites, leave comments, buy links and so on to get high numbers of links coming in to your site. And if one of your stories get dugg on digg you will get an enormous amount of link backs.
5. Title Tage - Make sure your post title appears before the site name in the title tag. You can do this by recoding the title tag in your header page or using Optimized title plug in.
6. Sitemap - Use the Sitemap creator plug in and submit it to Google.
7. 404 redirect - Redirect your 404 pages to your home page.
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