7 SEO Tips for your WordPress Blog
Do you have a WordPress blog? If so, one of the best ways to increase the traffic to your blog is by applying search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. In this article we will go over 7 simple things that you can to do increase your traffic from the search engines.
These tips really will help you to get more traffic from search engine.
- Make sure that your permalinks are set up optimally for SEO – 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->Permalinks menu in the WordPress dashboard and then use a custom setting http://yourdomainname.com/category/postname. This will mean that your blog post category and title will appear in the URL rather than a number.
- Install the All in One SEO Pack (or a another similar plugin) – the All in One SEO Pack plugin allows you to add a custom title, meta description and keyword tags for your home page and blog posts.
- Optimize each blog post for a low competition long tail keyword phrase – before you make a blog post take some time to do a little keyword research. Visit the Google Adwords Keyword tool and use this to find a long tail keyword phrase that has a low amount of competition. Ideally this phrase will have just a few hundred monthly searches rather than a few thousand monthly searches. Use a different keyword phrase for every blog post that you make and put the keyword phrase in the blog post title and 2-3 times throughout the post.
- Use Social Bookmarking services to bookmark each blog post – whenever you post to your blog use a social bookmarking service e.g. Digg or StumbleUpon. There are also services such as OnlyWire and SocialMarker that will let you submit your site to multiple bookmarking services at the same time. Social bookmarking can get you additional traffic to your blog and give you a backlink to your blog post.
- 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. Choose one or two keyword phrases for the home page of your website using the free Google Adwords Keyword tool. If possible try to choose prases that are not too competitive, but still have a good few thousand monthly searches. Ensure that you include these keyword phrases are mentioned in the TITLE tag, meta description and throughout the permanent content of your blog home page.
- 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.
- Build links to your blog - building links back to your website is the surest way to improve your ranking in the search engines. If you ignore this it will be very difficult to get a good level of visitors from the search engines. You can build links using article marketing, directory submission, forum posting, commenting on other blogs, press releases, link exchange and social bookmarking.
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Interesting post. Thanks and keep on doing the good job!
I’d like to add that “All in One SEO Pack” is a good plug-in, but selecting relevant categories and tags for each blog posts apart from this plug in could be very helpful too.
exchanging links are beneficial if the reciprocal sites are highly visited and are relevant to yours….
I really liked the idea of getting an All-in-one plugins pack, where you will have all the features one time only, you dotn need to re-install them everytime. will be coming for more updates to your blog, keep posting such great posts
With the new twitter hype I have actually been reconsidering this whole seo friendly permalink thing. The reason is that having a short URL means twitter will not use a url shortening service when you make a post. This means rather then 1000’s of tinyurl, is.gd, and bit.ly urls redirecting people to your site, you have links that point directly to your site! This is very important! Why? Because if you are like me and post 100’s of links a day on twitter, google will count them as a link to your site! If they are redirect links, google doesn’t count that as someone linking to your site.
I guess its a trade off really. Do you want the little bit of SEO that permalinks bring or the vast amount that back links bring? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!
Oh by the way, your “nofollow” code is causing no links to display correctly on your site but they are still followed by google! You may want to either disable nofollow, correct it, or disable url’s in posts altogether.
I don’t see any twitter update has been listed on any search engine yet. I think twitter update not affected all on SEO. But twitter can drive a lot of traffic. List on search engine? Not yet i guess.
Try this for twitter not effecting SEO
search google
“theda420.info” +site:twitter.com
these are nothing but twitter posts pointing to my site in search engines
Thanks.. I think i missed that. Twitter profile easily listed on google. Maybe google want to buy twitter as one of the services.
One think i don’t like about twitter now…it’s become place for spammers. Damn..
Blogging is one of the popular ways to earn money online. That is why bloggers out there needs to make the best out of their blogs.. SOcial bookmarking is one of the best way to increase traffic.. Onlywire and social marker are the tools that I use in bookmarking, they are great..
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Keyword research is the first step to be done and is important because if the keywords used has high competition, then it will take lots of time and effort to rank. On-page optimization is also as important as off-page optimization.
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