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Wordpress SEO: First Steps

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In order to simplify the process of optimising your Wordpress blog, I have compiled all the information here. The steps below should be very easy to follow and does not require any difficult change of codes but before you begin, I would recommend reading this:

Primer: Wordpress SEO

I have identified 5 important parts to optimising your Wordpress blog and broken them down into smaller chunks of information for easy digestion. Feel free to implement them in any order you like:

1. Permalinks - changing your Wordpress permalinks to be search-engine friendly
2. Page Title - improve the readability of your blog posts
3. Google Sitemaps - creating a sitemap for your blog
4. Tagging & Meta Keywords - implementing tags on your blog and how to use them as meta keywords.
5. Site Submissions - submit your site to blog directories, aggregators, etc.

I hope you find them useful.

If you like this post, you might be interested in reading "Adsense for Wordpress: First Steps".

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69 Responses to “Wordpress SEO: First Steps”

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  6. Marc and Angel
    June 27th, 2006 07:02
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    Great site! The information has been extremely helpful. Thank you!

  7. teckie
    June 27th, 2006 07:28
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    thanks!

  8. Jason Brown
    July 8th, 2006 23:02
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    I love to see people helping people with WordPress SEO topics.

    I would like to share a WordPress SEO plugin I developed that helps increases SEO exposure for many of the WordPress being published right now.

    It optimizes titles, meta tags, and the auto discovery links for RSS and Atom feeds on your blog.

    You can get it here at: Wordpress SEO plugin

  9. SEO Portal
    July 10th, 2006 03:23
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    nice posting!

  10. Pigeon Forge
    July 14th, 2006 21:21
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    I noticed you mentioned using tags for the meta description. I did something different at Pigeon Forge that pulls a posts excerpt and uses it as the meta description. I know theres talk about meta descriptions and keywords not being as effective in search engines these days, but I did it more for the user. A user is more likely to click a link in a search if it sounds interesting based on the title of the link and the description, so using a strong meta description rather than having a search engine guess or using simple tags is so much more effective…at least that's what I've found.

    Great stuff!

  11. teckie
    July 16th, 2006 05:19
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    Hi, I actually used the tags for meta keywords, and excerpts for meta description =)

    all can be done via the Tags in the Head plugin I recommended.

  12. Rihanna
    July 23rd, 2006 19:51
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    Im going to do the Google sitemap, and also optimize my permalinks.

  13. lyricist
    July 28th, 2006 00:39
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    thanks for your tips!

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  15. Mary
    August 10th, 2006 09:07
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    This is useful. Thanks for the information. =)

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    August 26th, 2006 18:07
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    These tips very much helps me to modify my wordpress site… thank you…

  21. Kman
    September 3rd, 2006 05:37
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    I wish I had read this when I started up my WP Blog. Now when I change the permalinks it screws up my past search engine crawls!

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    September 7th, 2006 20:30
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  23. favorites
    September 20th, 2006 05:25
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    Thank you for the post. This information gives me thoughts for future.

    Best regards,

    Tomas

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  25. Kman
    November 16th, 2006 03:46
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    I went through the whole list and implemented all your tips. Very good work. I'll certainly like over to your site in the future.

  26. teckie
    November 16th, 2006 15:00
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    thanks for visiting! =)

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    November 17th, 2006 21:00
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    Hi There
    I Have found your blog's url on my Friend's (Gert) site. Good to see!

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    November 27th, 2006 12:20
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    I see a lot of articles giving advice on SEO, but how much or how big of part is Onpage optimization?

    When lloking at it compared to Offsite SEO, establishing One Way links back to your site?

  30. teckie
    November 27th, 2006 17:44
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    well, actually popular pages in your website/blog has their own PR, so if there's a particular high PR for a certain page, make sure your other links to other pages are highly visible also. not only for googlebot but also for your visitors.

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    November 29th, 2006 06:04
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    Wow, cool site.. I am creating a website. Should I add a blog too or just keep my website? Do you have both?. Thanks for response.

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    November 29th, 2006 09:06
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    you can do both, add a blog if you intend to update frequently, or you say something personal or intend to make your site interactive.

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    December 9th, 2006 20:40
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    Really very helpfull for me. Thank You for sharing!

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    December 13th, 2006 13:59
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    Super! Thanks for breaking down the 5 important parts to optimizing our Wordpress blogs. This will be come in very handy…! Thanks…

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    Thanks for the nice post.

    I always use my keyword at least 2 times per post in my blog to ensure that i maintain my keyword density to 3% to 5%. Do you think this is still a good practice at this moment or is inbound links more important now?

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    Very good article that points the theme and it is very important to say how one can make SEO links so you also need to Google some more for SEO, tips, wordpress.

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    thanks for the info. espcially about the Google Sitemaps thingy. cheers!

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    March 7th, 2007 22:27
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    Great information for all thoses keen bloggers out there, well done!!! I must emphasise the point about getting links to your bloggs too. You can have all the on page optimisation in place but never get anywhere if you have poor link popularity.

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    Great information, I am fairly new to wordpress so the 5 steps will help a great deal. Have set up all tags for my websites and was wondering how to do this for my wordpress blogs. Thanks again, it's refreshing to find helpful people such as yourself in the maze of conflicting info out here!

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  55. the website designer
    June 23rd, 2007 07:32
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    thank you very much just what i was looking for to optimise my blog cheers

  56. Tim Berry
    June 24th, 2007 03:45
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    The permalink structure tip is very important. I did not really understand the concept when I began blogging. Since learning more, I have been able to create more optimized posts which lead to more targeted visitors. It's a win-win!

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    I've done alot of this and it put me on the first page of Google for alot of terms important to me. This is good advice for anyone reading it. Just follow the directions.

  59. tovorinok
    July 5th, 2007 19:52
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    Hello

    Great book. I just want to say what a fantastic thing you are doing! Good luck!

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    July 13th, 2007 14:54
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    This is awesome! I just made my first Blog, and was looking at how to improve the PR. I appreciate your tips.

    Regards!

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    July 17th, 2007 18:28
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    SEO is important but not everything.Backlinks are more important i think ..

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    Yes, this is: the permalink structure tip is very important.

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    I've heard the first 4 before, but the 5th one is the one i need to work more on?

    5. Site Submissions - submit your site to blog directories, aggregators, etc.

    What are some example links to submit my site(s) too?

    Thanks a bunch.

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