Wordpress has been one of the best blogging platforms, a few reasons why i liked it over blogger and the main reason being search engine friendliness. It is not readily present as a search engine friendly blog, but we have to follow few steps to make it look better and more liked by the Search engines, mainly Google.

Here are the most basic ones that you should follow when you start a wordpress blog, mainly trying to depend on organic traffic(traffic from search engines, through search results!) -

• Changing Permalinks - This is the first and foremost thing to be done when you start a new wordpress blog, about which i already had described in my basic steps post for a new wordpress blog. You can change the permalinks structure by going to your admin through > your-blog.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
• All in One SEO Pack - One of the best wordpress plugins, using which you can have and make changes to your Home Title, Home Description, Home Keywords, Post title, description, keywords, format of URL’s etc. It is rated as one of the best plugins around for better SEO of your blogs. I am using it and you can see the changes in title of the post present in the page, and that appears on the top of the browser.
• Don’t link post title in single post - This is a thing discovered by many bloggers, that their blog rankings were badly hurt in google as they were linking to the same post by hyperlinking the title of the single post in the post page. So just removed the option in my blog too.
• Try for lesser outbounds - If your blog is new, linking to many sites from your posts would be a big factor that hurts your rankings. So don’t try to credit as many sites if you are still new to blogging. Limit the number of outbounds always, over linkings is really bad.
• Let Search Engines know about you - Submitting to search engines is not a way to directly get indexed in them. You better can submit to social bookmarking sites from where Search engines can reach your blog and index you. Anyways if you have something unique and new in your blog, you can submit to the blog search engine of blogs. But don’t do it very frequently.

There are many other tips for bloggers for optimizing their blog when you have a new wordpress blog into the blogosphere. Will share about each, and especially about the “All in One SEO Pack” plugin later.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thank you for taking your time in reading this post.
Be coming back by subscribing to The World Wide Web Blog and get updated regularly!

Random Posts

• February 25, 2008 -- Opera Mini 4 - Complete web in your phone
• March 9, 2008 -- Wikipedia widget in your Macbook Dashboard
• May 4, 2008 -- How to get more comments on your blog?
• March 17, 2008 -- How to claim your blog in Technorati
• December 31, 2007 -- Win a Laptop by Voting for John Chow

Random Posts

• May 13, 2008 -- How to run Windows on Mac
• December 25, 2007 -- Getting the first traffic from StumbleUpon
• April 29, 2008 -- Some data about Alexa Internet - History
• February 3, 2008 -- Participating in the seocontest2008 ?
• February 7, 2008 -- Fan of Maria Sharapova? Get the domain name free!

Tags: wordpress seo, wordpress tips, wordpress tweaks