Get More Free Traffic To Your Blog With Wordpress On Page SEO
Posted by Mik Horton in Uncategorized, tags: blogging, business, how to seo wordpress, internet marketing, internet niche marketing, marketing, niche marketing, online business, online marketing, online marketing - seo, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Uncategorized, wordpress seoThis report explains how to SEO Wordpress in a way that You get a search engine friendly blog that will rank high for Your keywords. Learn how to change a standard Wordpress blog to increase the number of optimized on page factors.
How To SEO Wordpress And Get More Free Traffic To Your Blog
Let me first give You an introduction to the on page ranking factors which Wordpress is not making good use of. I will then teach You how to tweak Wordpress for more search engine friendly output and how to use Wordpress SEO plug-ins to optimize your blog.
- Powerful on page SEO factors to optimize in Wordpress
- Wordpress won’t be generating SEO friendly web addresses for Your post pages.
- Wordpress will not build keyword optimized page titles.
- standard Wordpress blog settings create a lot of duplicate pages to be indexed
Wordpress SEO starts with building upon a SEO optimized theme. A good theme must not use H1 headings anywhere above Your content and should reserve H4 for the sidebar headings. This way the robots can only find H1 and H2 and H3 headings in Your content and that these will have Your main keywords in them. On non optimized themes You will even find H1 or H2 headings in the sidebar, leading to Google considering that Your blog is about “Follow my blog” or “follow Me On Twitter…” or whatever You find in the headlines of sidebar items. Don’t worry. You can download free SEO optimized themes on a lot of sites. Here’s a good one. Or browse themes that are tagged SEO friendly directly at Wordpress here.
How To SEO Wordpress - Get More Free Traffic To Your Blog
You can instantly increase the SEO score of all your blogs pages by expanding the settings menu in the Wordpress admin and then clicking on permalink in the settings drop-down menu. Then choose to use a custom structure and write /%post_title%/ in the input box. Your blog will now use Your post title as the URL of that post. This is far more SEO friendly then the default URL that consists of only a number representing the post count. keyword optimized post titles will now lead to keyword optimized URLs automatically.
The above issue is also true for the page titles that Wordpress creates by default. Standard value is blogname + post title. This is not SEO friendly because your blogs’ name is in the most prominent place in every page title. I recommend to only use the post title. It will also make Your titles more unique. Use a plug-in to change the titles. A good one is All In One SEO Pack. Install this plugin and then go to settings - All In One SEO. All In One SEO can control titles, descriptions and keywords for all pages. This page also holds the presets for title creation. Delete the %blog_title% tag from the first 3 entries to optimize the page titles.
Wordpress SEO Plug-Ins
The same Wordpress SEO plug-in gives You full control over another aspect of your blog that can lead to poor rankings. Wordpress organizes posts in several different archives for Tags, Categories etc…. The result is a lot of different sites featuring the same content, especially when a blog is new and has few post that share tags or categories. Google don’t like it when a website has many pages with duplicate content though. All In One SEO Pack enables us to set the Category, Tags and Archive pages to be set to “NoIndex” via the robots.txt. By doing so Google will still crawl these sites and find all your pages. But You keep them from indexing the areas on which problematic duplicate pages can appear often in Wordpress.
I hope this guide is helpful for preparing Wordpress for generating SEO optimized websites and blogs for You. This guide only discusses the basic on page SEO factors and how to SEO wordpress for them. You now know how to SEO wordpress in a way that it offers You a SEO friendly environment for Your blogs content.
Read more about How To SEO Wordpress on the authors Blog on which You get an in depth Guide To Wordpress SEO and will also find some Wordpress SEO Video How Tos.
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