Best SEO Tips for For WordPress Website
The best place by far to find traffic is from search engines. The art
of Search Engine Optimization is often very daunting for new bloggers.
Even some experienced bloggers just see SEO as a cloudy puddle of mud
they would rather not play in.
WordPress by default is pretty decent at letting search engines see
what’s going on. But there are a whole bunch of other things that can be
done to make your blog rank better. Fortunately there are plugins
available to help you get better rankings for your blog, so you don’t
have to go digging into the code of your blog to get some results from
search engines.
I’m not going to explain the validity or effects of each of these SEO
tactics in detail. There is more than enough of that on the Internet
already if you want to do some research. I’ll mention briefly what the
benefits of each plugin is, and why you need it.style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">
1. All in One SEO Pack
This allows you to set the basic SEO stuff for your blog. You need
page titles, meta tags, keywords, and descriptions. This plugin allows
you to configure them for either your entire blog or on a post by post
basis.
From time to time you make changes on your blog. Sometimes these
changes end up breaking your Permalink structure. This often happens
when you make a change to an old post, or do an upgrade to WordPress and
make some changes to the permalinks. It’s very very common if you move
your blog from one host to another.
Basically what happens is that each post has a unique URL, called a
permalink. When this changes, visitors who go to that blog post won’t
find it. The redirection plugin helps you fix these problems by
redirecting the visitor to the new permalink. This reduces the amount of
traffic you get to pages that don’t exist.
3. Robots Meta
By default search engines crawl and index ALL the pages on your blog.
This isn’t ideal, because it creates duplicate content and you can get
yourself punished by search engines without knowing it. What the Robots
Meta plugin allows you to do is tell the search engines which sections
of your blog to crawl. This means that you’ll get more respect from
search engines, and likely more traffic.
4. SEO Smart Links
One of the key issues with SEO is your internal linking structure.
The more you link to a certain page on your blog, the more important it
is to your overall content. Search engines treat your internal links as
an indication of how well structured your site is. The problem with this
is that if you had to manually go and create links to relevant and
important posts you’ll spend hours and hours doing it.
SEO Smart links allows you to specify a word, like ‘SEO’ and then
link it to a post on your site. Then each time the word SEO appears on
your site, it’s automatically turned into a link you specified.
5. SEO Friendly Images
Images also play an important role in your SEO strategy. So it’s
important that you tag them correctly. SEO Friendly images allows you to
do this, and saves you hours and hours of work. If, like most bloggers
you use images in your posts, then this plugin is essential.
6. Google Positioner
It’s important to know your keywords. And this handy plugin allows
you to track the keywords you’re getting searches for. It’s pointless
selecting a few keywords, then writing some content for those keywords
and hoping that the rest goes well. SEO is about being proactive and
tracing what works and what doesn’t.
7. Permalinks Moved Permanently
A common mistake bloggers make is choosing the wrong permalink
structure. When you start your blog you think you know which is best,
and as time goes buy you want to change your permalink structure. The
problem with changing your permalink structure is that your traffic will
come to a standstill until your site is reindexed, and that could take
months.
This plugin is similar to redirect but is an easier and better way to manage permanent permalink changes.
8. Nofollow Case by Case
The nofollow attribute over the last year or two has had a fairly
large impact on the blogosphere. All comments in WordPress by default
are nofollow links. This means that no Page Rank (PR) is being given via
the link. This plugin changes that and makes comment links valuable
again. There are a number of reasons you would want to give away link
juice. It’s often used to attract people and encourage them to comment.
It can be very useful for new blogs who need some exposure.
9. SEO Slugs
Stop words are ignored by search engines. So most of your post titles
have them in, but they are meaningless to search engines. So when you
have a post title like this: “What You Can Do Immediately For Higher
Rankings” you have a permalink like this:
‘/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings’ but what you really
want is for your permalink to look like this:
/immediately-higher-rankings.
This plugin automatically removes stop words from the permalink, helping you to rank better.
Conclusion:
Getting better traffic from search engines will help you boost your
blog. You’ll get better income, rank better, and be able to build a
better brand.
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