Proper Wordpress Setup for SEO

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I have a mortgage site, designed to attract additional clients. I'm using the Catalyst them (absolutely love it). Trying to figure out what the ideal setup for homepage/pages/posts would be for SEO purposes.

Currently I've got the homepage setup to show excerpts of my 6 most recent posts.

My menu bar (navbar) has my categories, when clicked takes you to that category page with excerpts of all posts from that category.

Started thinking tonight that it would be better to have the first post on each page (homepage/category pages/etc) be static info. That way when the search engine indexes it, my category page domain.com/category would have static info telling the client what that page is about.

Right now google is showing domain.com/category/ and the info is from whatever post is first on that page.

Thoughts? Suggestions?
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  • Anyone have any thoughts on this?
  • what i have found...

    google comes around every now and then and "takes a snapshot" of your site as it is right at that moment...
    so if your latest post is not perfectly in line with your site's overall theme, the description that google pops out in the search results can be less than ideal.

    what works for me is this:

    i create a static home page, with a few hundred words of content, and then...

    i use the "recent posts embed" plugin and use that to offer excerpts to my latest content.

    that way my home page has lots of content for google...

    and constantly changes...

    and i have more control over what google takes as a description (it seems that google ignores the info provided by seo plugins now and then).

    just my 0.02c
  • To overcome this you can pre define what description to show in Google search results by using the meta description tag. This (using meta tags) also helps in stopping the auto compilation of the info (by SEs from page contents) in most of the cases.
  • webdevpro, I am using meta description tag, which works well for my pages (home page, mortgage caclulator, etc.). However, in google it also has my Category page indexed and the description that is provided is the first few lines of the most recent post in that category.

    So I'm thinking if I am able to, I will use a custom page that will aggregate all the posts for a particular category. That way I can make use of the Meta Description for that page.
  • I prefer to make the homepage as a static page just incase the posts that get put up are not that rich with good content and Google comes and does not increase my rankings each time they visit as it does not look good for my site
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    Proper Wordpress Setup for SEO

    I have a mortgage site, designed to attract additional clients. I'm using the Catalyst them (absolutely love it). Trying to figure out what the ideal setup for homepage/pages/posts would be for SEO purposes. Currently I've got the homepage setup to show excerpts of my 6 most recent posts.