ON PAGE SEO CHECKLIST for WORDPRESS sites
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This is via Wordpress.
Please excuse the messy circles.
Here are the 4 main plugins I install for SEO purposes and why.
All In One SEO--Makes it easy to add meta title, meta description, and meta keyword tags to your website, and the pages/posts within.
Category Posts Plugin--Allows me to display a particular category and it's posts to make site navigation easier for users, and robots via a sidebar widget. This is much more effective than the old "recent posts" widget.
Pretty Links--Easily cloaks unlimited links with attractive redirects. Ex. www.yourdomain/buythis. Also adds no follow to these links.
SEO Smart Links--Creates internal linking within your website by converting selected keywords, into html anchor text links to related pages of your site. Very easy to use and very effective. Internal linking on autopilot basically. You can set external links as well.
So those are my 4 main SEO flavored plugins.
When I'm creating websites, I make sure I have my main keyword, and my LSI's in each of the following ways on my websites.
- Title Tags-Website title and page/post titles via "All in One SEO" plugin.
- Description Tags-Description of website via "All in One SEO" plugin.
- Keyword Tags-Keywords of website/pages/posts via "All in One SEO" plugin.
- h1 tag-Not found in Wordpress source code.
- h2 tags-Category Titles in sidebar
- h3 tags-Post titles on content
- Alt tags-Alternate image text on images.
- html tags-Via internal/nofollow external linking with anchor text
- Div tags-Not sure of the importance but I do it anyways. Via captions on images.
- Conservatively use keywords in bold, and italic format.
- Always accompany keywords, with LSI keywords close by.
BTW **LSI's are keywords related to your main keyword according to the search engines. Use "related keywords" via google keyword tool for LSI's.
I personally try to keep a ratio of 5 LSI's per 1 main keyword within the content of posts/pages.
Here's a quick example of the location of these tags to make sure you have them.
Again, please excuse the bad penmanship.
Hope this helps a bit.
I'm all about that bass.
Thanks
Zaheer