Wordpress SEO and category pages?

[Intrepreneur]

Here's something that worries me about Wordpress category pages and my SEO, I want to brush it up a little as Im making significant changes to the structure of my blog.

So basically my post titles are now H1 but then on my category pages these titles are replicated as H2..

Is there good reason for me to want to downgrade the H2 on the category pages to H3 to improve SEO..

I'm not sure it will make a difference between them being H2 or H3 so would like some opinions on this as if its not something I should worry about then I don't want to waste my time.

[askloz]

nope, they're just fine.

there is nothing you need to do with WP blogs if you have the all-in-one-seo plugin tool that I mentioned to you before a few weeks go... stop worrying, build content and links and make some money

[Intrepreneur]

I have used that but still think there is a lot to be tweaked on most WP blogs to make them more SEO worthy, as I fear those H2 links cna be hurting the overall structure of my site, I guess maybe I shouldn't worry but I'm out to full optimize my blog for maximum performance and planning to enter into theme creation so this is a big thing for me at the moment.

[askloz]

nope, H2 tags are not hurting pages, regardless if it's a normal site or a blog.

only time it hurts is if you have more than 1 H1 tag on a page. You can have as many H2, 3, 4, 5, 6 tags as you want.

Trust me, you dont need anything else other than the seo plugin I mentioned.

I have it on over 1000 of my domains and I haven't had any problem ranking on first page for 10's of thousands of keywords.

[VaultBoss]

Hey, Loz...

You seem to have a vast experience with WP and SEO stuff.

I have recently re-vived a blog I have started abt. an year ago when I was new to this IM game.
I am already seeing a bit of traffic to it from a few articles, from optimizing the posts with KW research, etc...

I am also using All-In-One-SEO plugin and tweaked the blog here and there.
Nothing spectacular, nothing really professional.

However, I'm devoted to learn more and improve it.

When I've started it, back in August 2008, I was stupid enough to install the blog on the main domain's subfolder called 'wordpress'... LOL

I'm wondering... is there any way to change that in order to have the articles/posts addresses more SEO friendly than that, like using the category before the post title, etc... AND in the mean time, getting rid of the 'wordpress' interruption, BUT without losing all the recent efforts (like pages showing in the first listings of BIG G for the given keywords, etc...)

What do you think? Any idea would be carefully considered and appreciated.

Here's an example of what I want to do:

instead of

'http://www.knowhowvault.com/wordpress/raise-your-linkedin-profiles-google-ranking/'

maybe something more like

'http://www.knowhowvault.com/linkedin-tutorials/raise-your-linkedin-profiles-google-ranking/'

where the whole WP would be moved to the main domain and the 'linkedin-tutorials' would be say... a category among many others.

If you want to take a look, obviously the blog is here:

The Knowhow Vault Blog

Thank you for any answer you may have!

[Devilfish]

I have the category pages disallowed in the robots.txt file.

User-agent: *

Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

[VaultBoss]

That is good to use, SEO-wise, indeed.

However, how would it help me? Or wasn't it intended to so so?
Thanks!

[Devilfish]

I was replying to the thread starter. I suggest you start your own thread if you want direct help.

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by VaultBoss

That is good to use, SEO-wise, indeed.

However, how would it help me? Or wasn't it intended to so so?
Thanks!

You will have to commit to learn about your config and database set-up to move the wordpress to a folder called blogs..

Moving WordPress WordPress Codex

Devilfish, I know I could just not have them indexed but on the point of SEO, I do understand allowing at the least the category or tag pages to be indexed leaves room for improvement..

Also that I have keywords in my category slugs...

Anyone else know more on this?

Thanks.

[VaultBoss]

Sorry, I've figured that after posting, but I was too tired to change/edit it.

No harm intended, though...

Anyway, your advice was sound!

[askloz]

by rights Steve, you could just re-name the wordpress folder,and it should still work. give it a try