Wordpress by default has some search engine friendly setup but we need to edit some part of the code and add plugins to make it more search engine friendly and the plugins will help us to do the work easier and better. Below are the tips to create search engine friendly wordpress blog
(1) Initially you can add search engine friendly theme with less image and your choice of image can go for logo, banner and bullets. Try to reduce code size and bytes.
(2) Install "All in SEO" Plugin". Activate and edit in options according to your visitors focus
(3) Most importantly do add alt attribute for logos and banner, i see most of the blogs miss to implement this technique or alt attribute are not unique. To solve this you can try "Custom Header" plugin and enter HTML codes for each posts and pages
(4) Permalink a very important part that helps to create search engine friendly URLS. In wordpress admin you can find "Permalinks" under option. In this you can notice "Custom structure", you may try adding this tag /%postname%/
(5) Create and configure .htaccess file and place the below code
Save and upload in root and confirm that .htaccess file is been enabled in your server and your done
(6) If your theme doesn't have archive section, don't miss to add because new visitors to you blog may also like to read your old posts, so try adding the code to your theme
(7) Again "Popular tags" one of the very important part for blog and seo which helps to show visitors and search engine to the importance of blog posts and subjects. The follwoing code will show tags popularity by size
(8) Intall "Recent post" plugin and activate. This plugin helps to retrieve list of the most recent posts for your visitors
(9) Add "Google Sitemaps" to the plugin folder and activate . Set write access to the root server and then go to options >> Google sitemap and then click "Build sitemap manually" link and this creates site map and as you add new post xml file gets updated automatically with new posts URL.
(10) Add this sitemap.xml file to Google and Yahoo Webmaster tool so that spider will crawl the URL on regular basis
(11) Configure and add Google Custom Search and Google Analytics
(12) Register to Feedburner and add your post RSS feed to Feedburner and create an option in the blog for your readers to subscribe your posts, by this as and when you post, your reader will be sent mail or noticed through browser about your new posts
Hope above Wordpress SEO Tips and Advice will help you to create search engine friendly wordpress blog
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Excellent SEO tips!! I love the Google Sitemap plugin and the All in One SEO plugin. These help quite a bit.
And after you do all this, you backlink your butt off!!
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Hi Jagdeesh,
Nice to step into your blogspot today. Read the article and its cool. and regarding the permalink structure, which structure do u advice?
www.domain.com/year/month/post-title/12345
or
www.domain.com/year/month/post-title/
or
www.domain.com/category/post-title/
or
www.doamin.com/category/post-title/12345
Hi Mercy,
Thanks for the comment, you can go for
www.domain.com/post-title/
and if you go for
www.domain.com/category/post-title/
there are possibilities for the page content to get duplicated when you add post to 2 or more categories :)
Cheers,
Jag
Useful tips. The second one has worked the best for me.
Nice tips and your great advice. I learned a lot from this blog. Thanks for your help.
Nice tips,but how do I implement these tips on wordpress.com blog. Are these tips only for wordpress.org blog
Hi Jag,
Thanks for the useful blog. I am recently getting into worpdress and would like to know if you have used an alternative to all in one SEO called headspace. I've used it and found very useful. Just wondering if you fancied doing a comparison article one day ?
Good tips but seems that it is only helpful for newbies.
I just came across this blog and it’s looking so informative and it has lot of knowledge about small seo business. People should take advantage from this post.
Can you explain what the use of this code in .htaccess "RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]"? Thanks
Once you setup "Permalinks" as per your blog post title you need to add the .htaccess as mentioned in the post. The .htaccess rewrite rule will help you to remove "/index.php" from your blog post url
In detail: When you work with "Permalinks" your url will look like yoursite.com/index.php/your-first-post/. By using rewrite rule your url will change to yoursite.com/your-first-post/
Hope this helps!
what great tips. very nice.
Nice tips!
I love "all in one seo plugin" above all of another plugin.
That can't maximize the PR of your web.
Thanks for sharing your very helpful SEO tips to us.
Hi Jagadeesh,
Nice resourceful tips,I really appreciate the information you are offering in this post.
Thanks for sharing
Hi,
You really provide good tips about Wordpress, Actually I want to use Wordpress for writing content about my site and your tips will be helpful for my learning experience and it is a really good read for me.
Thanks for such a wonderful post.
Keep it up!
I love a theme"Girl in freen " in wordpress.com & i want to my make my prsnl blog on blogger with distheme .
Is it posible ?
Yeah if you know to work in CSS.
Best,
Jag
Its Really Helpful for me
Thanx
I would also recommend installing the CommentLuv plug-in and an extra spam filter or two. The combination will help block spam and encourage people to comment - both of which are very valuable tools for any blogger.
good tip for new beginner
Hi Jag,
Thanks for sharing about WordPress SEO.
But For what reason we have include that Re-write code in .htaccess file?
Albert,
Default link would look something like this ?p=35 after the domain or a blog folder. And your permalinks option will get you a SEF url with index page, something like /index/your-page. If you use the htaccess with the mentioned code then you can eliminate default folder and the link will look like yourdomain/your-page
Best,
Jag
Amazing Post,
very resourceful and interesting,i really appreciate the information you are offering and dear it seem very useful also so i
am going to tweet this.
Its great to have more tips for seo, helps out hundreds of people.
Hello Jag,
This is a 2008 article. Will it suite for current WP? or is there any changes?
PLease let me know.
Thank You
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