SEO For Wordpress

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Hello Warriors,

I am looking for some simple seo ideas and strategies that i can use for a few of my wordpress blogs,i know that content is the key .What else could i do?
I have read that there are blackhat and whitehat methods,i would prefer the whitehat and the right way into getting my website up on search engines.

What else could i do,any free tools etc that i can use

Thank you
Steve
#search engine optimization #seo #wordpress
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  • Agreed. Get working on building high quality, relevant backlinks to your blogs (or outsource the task if you don't know how/don't have the time).

    Also, use an SEO plugin on WP (All In One SEO pack is the most popular).
  • Get all in on SEO Pack for WP, it's free and easy to use. Also make sure you configure it and "activate" it as many people actually forget... Then just power through and send as many backlinks as you can!

    -Collins P
  • The search php on here does come in handy. I've managed to research several things by using it.
  • @ christopherNV Thanks for your info,what is the easiest way to get backlinks?
    @ derekjansen thanks i have installed the plugin,also subscribed to your course in your signature.

    Other than backlinks what else could i do?
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    • Hi,

      I agree with the guys here that backlinks are the main thing to focus on but I also think you should make sure your blog On Page SEO factors are optimized.

      I have written a PDF guide about this subject and you can download it here:

      On Page SEO.pdf

      Go easy with me, it is one of my first guides and I hope it will benefit you. Feel free to provide feedback of any kind... GOOD or BAD.
  • In terms of SEO wordpress one of the HUGE mistakes that I see people making all the time is failing to set their permalinks to optimize for long-tail keywords of your article names.

    Go to permalinks and change it to a custom structure and enter: /%postname%/

    What this does is rename all of your posts to the post title. This gives the GBot a better idea of what your content is and definitely helps you rank for keywords you weren't even trying to.

    My .02
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    • Dont do this,,, please. Sooner or later your going to run out of original post names, or your going to find yourself checking to see if you have already used that post name. If you start posting duplicate titles, wordpress will start putting a -2 behind the post name.

      If anything, go with a permalink structure like this:
      /%month%/%day%/%postname%/
      /%month%/%postname%/
      /%day%/%postname%/
      /%month%-%day%/%postname%/

      Using the month or/and or day gives you a random number in your post title. Thus making duplicate titles almost impossible.
  • Make sure you have the 'All In One SEO Pack' installed and configured for the keywords you want to rank for.

    Make sure the permalinks are set to '%postname%' so that your post titles appear in your domain name.

    Make sure you put your keyword in the title of each post and once per 100 words.

    Build quality incoming links from web 2.0 properties and link to individual pages not just the root domain.

    Hope that helps
  • One of the things I do, although I can 't vouch that it helps ranking at all, is use a 2-column layout with the content on the left and the navigation on the right (or at least structure the underlying code so the content comes first).

    My understanding is Google spider reads from top to bottom, so it will hit my keyword focused content first, then the navigation links....

    That has the added benefits of positioning the content where the users tends to focus his or her gaze first.

    I do use All In One SEO to optimize my title, keywords and description.....
  • sorry if I out of topic

    just wanna ask what is the different in SEO for wp that hosted in wordpress.com and the one in other hosting

    thanks
  • use ALL iN ONE SEO PACK.. and makes sure to put UNIQUE TITLE, DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS in every PAGE/POST ... and do some backlinking..
  • Try Jeff Johnson's wordpress SEO plug-in, works great.
  • If you know what you're doing get All In One SEO Pack.

    Otherwise get SEO Pressor (by Daniel Tan), it's a paid plugin but it's pretty awesome.

    It will score your posts and pages and give you suggestions on how to improve them.
  • allinoneseo pack is the plugin for wordpress, one of the best plugin for optimization
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  • SEO Smart Links is a good plug in as well, it helps you to create links within your pages and posts.
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  • Thank you all for your ideas,what have i got from this

    - Build Backlinks
    - Use the SEO plugin ( already done)
    - Change my link structure to posts

    Any other suggestions that would help,is very much appreciated.

    Thanks
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  • Go after these steps; these will absolutely help in generating traffic,
    The first precedence is to create smart and class content that provides information to visitor.
    Suggest your blog to esteem search engines.
    Post comments on relevant blogs to get traffic.
    Set up RSS Feed.
    Use trackback too see to whom you are linked.
    Make your posts in social bookmarking sites.
    At the end you should not forget SEO too and exercise relevant keywords in your blog..
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    • Its all about backlinks. Research your competitors in your niche to find out what backlinks they have..copy those..then add more
  • Install the SEO plugin and Build Backlinks...
  • Hello!

    I have a questions...

    Can WordPress scale to handle high volume sites with lots of traffic?

    So is WordPress the ultimate CMS platform for an SEO’s website?

    Is there some performance benefit to putting a date/post-ID/number in the URL?

    Thanks
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    • Some of the largest websites in the world use wordpress for their blogging platform.

      Fox news - you used to be able to access the wp-admin log in screen, but they have that page password protected now.

      blogs.cnn.com - uses a VIP hosted version of wordpress at wordpress.com

      If wordpress can handle blogs on sites like CNN and foxnews, I think it can handle your site just fine.
  • all in one seo pack has worked wonders for me
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  • my wordpress(ver3.0) doesnot has menu for editing/adding H1 - H2 , please see the snapshot below
    http://i33.tinypic.com/x0y62w.jpg

    can anyone tell me how can i add h1/h2 for my article ....how can i enable the heading menu?
  • Add an xml sitemap... helps make sure all your pages are indexed.

    There are several plugins that will build and maintain your sitemaps for you (I use Google XML sitmap). Once you have an xml sitemap you can add it to your Google webmaster account to make sure all your pages get properly indexed.
  • Get Mark Dulisse's free seo power plugin. Follow the instructions and you will make huge leaps in SEO on your blog.
  • I use all-in-one SEO and have never had any issues.

    You could also try SEOPressor, I have reviewed this and am going to implement to all my Wordpress blogs over the next few weeks. This tool will look after the following;


    Analyses Title, H1, H2 and H3 Tags
    Your title and heading tags are the most important factors that can influence your search engine ranking. SEOPressor will analyse your title and heading tags and intelligently suggest changes to them for the best proven optimization.

    Analyses Keyword Density and Content Length
    It has been tested and proven countless of times that Search Engines especially Google likes longer than shorter content. Your keyword density is also an important factor that can influence how you rank. SEOPressor will analyse both of them and suggest changes you can make to improve your optimization.

    Analyses The Exact Placement of Your Keyword
    SEOPressor not only analyses your keyword, it also intelligently takes into account the exact placement of your keywords. The exact placement of your keyword in your content will determind how well you rank on Search Engines.

    Analyses Images and Links
    Images and linking structures have a huge impact on your ranking. SEOPressor will analyse images and links on your content and suggest changes you can make for higher search engine ranking.

    Analyses Font Decorations
    Decorations such as bold, italic and underline all have great impact over your on-page optimization. SEOPressor analyses them and suggest changes you can make to help search engines understand your content better.

    Intelligently Bold, Italize and Underline Your Keywords
    Font decorations are known to have great influence over how a document rank on search engines. SEOPressor will help you bold, italize and underline your keywords on-the-fly.

    Intelligently Add ALT Tag to Your Images
    Images' ALT tags can be used to improve your on-page optimization. SEOPressor will automatically add your keyword to your images thus optimizing them for best search engines benefit.

    Capable of Testing and Rating Each Post and Page
    SEOPressor can accurately analyse and test your content whether you have them as a post of page on your Wordpress site.
    Reveals Your On-Page SEO Scores

    SEOPressor will calculate and show you the score of your on-page optimization. Pages with higher scores have been proven to rank better on search engines, resulting in better ability to attract organic traffic.


    Secret Algorithm That Correlates With Google
    SEOPressor's algorithm has been tested and proven to closely match how Google ranks websites. SEOPressor will help you to rank better than 90% of other websites.


    Recalculates SEO Scores When Content Changes
    New SEO scores and intelligent suggestions will be presented when you make changes to your content, allowing you to further optimize every factor of your content for high search engine ranking.


    One-Glance Fast & Easy SEO Management
    SEO becomes easy when you can have a one-glance view of all your seo scores right beside a list of your posts and pages.
    Intelligently Gives Suggestions On What To Tweak

    SEOPressor will intelligently give you tested and proven tweaks that you can do on your content to outrank 90% of webpages on the internet.


    Pump Your Wordpress Site High Up In Search Engines
    Why leave your content anything less than full optimization when you know you can rank higher and attract more traffic? SEOPressor is here to accomplish this!

    Drives Red-Hot Targeted Traffic To Your Website
    Who else wants red-hot targeted organic search traffic? It's been proven since 1996 that traffic from organic searches converts better than any other forms of traffic, because they are actively looking for a solution! Why don't you capture them while you know you can?

    Go Wordpress
  • I see all these people saying get all in one seo Pack.

    Don't get that, get the Platinum SEO Plugin, it has everything SEO pack has and more. You can edit alot more.

    You want to make sure you do the following:

    - Buy a keyword domain
    - Put the keywords throughout your website, in the meta title & meta description (which you can do through platinum seo pack)
    - Use Unique Article Wizard & Other SEO services to bring traffic to your website
  • In reality no SEO is FREE...

    you eventually have to investing in some real TOOLs
    to get real results...

    Han
  • Go to Settings > Writting, and in the very bottom you will see the "Update Services" box where you can add ping services url. Put lots of urls of ping services per line there. Then hit save.

    You can go here for a list: dailyblogtips.com/ping-list
  • Install SEO Super Comments plugin which create a new page when someone add comment to your post .
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    Hello Warriors, I am looking for some simple seo ideas and strategies that i can use for a few of my wordpress blogs,i know that content is the key .What else could i do?