14 April 2008
SEO Tips for Top 10 Rankings
Posted by Duckeldannys Money Blog under: General; Net News; seo; Wordpress .
This article shows you how to optimize your Blog for search engines so you can capture those coveted top 10 search results.
SEO Tip for WordPress Titles
Your PAGE title should include your keywords in order to be optimized for search engines. Your POST title should be catchy and written for your visitors. How do you accomplish this in WordPress?
Get the SEO Title Tag WordPress plugin. It allows you to have separate titles for your posts and your pages.
Advanced Tip: You’ll also want to check your post template (single.php) and make sure your post titles are using H2 tags and are linking to your Permalink URL.
This will give your post titles more prominence in the search engines. An example code:<h2 class=’post-title’><a href=”<?php echo get_permalink() ?>” title=”Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
SEO Tip for your WordPress Blog Name
Make sure your blog name is wrapped in the <H1> html tag.
Check your header.php (Presentation > Theme Editor) and make sure your code looks something like this: <h1 class=”blogtitle”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></h1>.
Don’t forget to use keywords in your blog name! If you want to rank for “Money Blog”, then put “Money Blog” somewhere in your blog name title.
WordPress SEO with Permalinks.
The default structure for your permalinks is: http://www.yourblog.com/?p=123
For SEO purposes, it should be like this: http://www.yourblog.com/your-post-title/
The main reason for this is? You want your keywords in your URL to be bold when someone is deciding which link to click in Google search results.
To change this in WordPress admin, go to Options > Permalinks, then select Custom and enter
/%postname%/ in the text field.
WARNING: This is for new blogs only. Do not do this step if your blog is already established. It will break all the links coming back to your blog. There are ways around this by editing your .htaccess file to redirect your links correctly using a 301 redirect but it is not for the technically challenged.
Backlinks are votes for your blog.
Getting backlinks to your posts is the most important factor for getting higher rankings in search engines. Think of links as votes for your blog. The more votes you have, the more search engines believe that your page is relevant to the search query. There are many ways to get backlinks, the most important is creating content that people will want to link to. Once you’ve done that, encourage them to link to it.
Here’s a WordPress plugin I found that encourages your visitors to link to your posts using your post titles as the link text: Link to Me Textbox WordPress Plugin.
Follow these steps and I guarantee you will get increased traffic to your WordPress blog from search engines.
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