WordPress SEO tweaks for blogging newbies
March 10th, 2008 | View Comments
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.
March 10th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Permalinks and changing the categories structure is always important because it helps a lot in the long term. Excellent tips there!
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March 11th, 2008 at 1:27 am
thanks for this seriously
March 11th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Gr8 tips given … very supportive for new bloggers …
i too use the same widget for my blogs … its all in one seo pack … making us easy to keep our blog clean n fresh
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March 11th, 2008 at 8:53 am
I was ranking quite good on my keywords.. then I decided to use SEO plugin which dropped me lower from what I used to rank.. so why fix if it aint broken.. i had to disable it..
March 11th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I never heard of any negative comments about it..
Did you stuff your meta title and description of your post with keywords?
March 11th, 2008 at 11:54 am
All in one SEO pack is very useful one. It has been the best for wordpress seo.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
All in one seo plugin is really awesome.
YOu forgot to mention that SITEMAP BUILDER. That is another really good plugin that generates sitemap for search engines.
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March 11th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Yea forgot to add that.. would add things like these in part 2
March 11th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Good Idea
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March 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
what if the links are nofollow? is it ok to do more links?
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March 17th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Good question asked
If you check this blog, it will have most of the link nofollowed in the post.
This will save the value for your new blog, but when your blog gets well established i always saw that linking to other good websites doesn’t effect your rankings.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Thanks for that info.
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March 19th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I am using it all. Thanks
“Don’t link post title in single post ” – I didnt got it.
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March 19th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
The post starts with this title – “WordPress SEO tweaks for blogging newbies”
You will see that it is not linked to the post URL.. The reason for that is not known specifically but i read in many blogs that it hurts rankings if you link to the same URL in the post.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:54 am
OK I got that now.
I must change the default settings now. I hope that requires editing single.php
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March 20th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Yes it requires editing single.php file.
March 20th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Wat about Social bookmarking links in the bottom of our every post to share ? i was using more then 15 SB in one of my blog … but rankings were dropped and so now i tried to make them less …
wat do u recommend for it ? are they counted as outgoing links ?
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March 20th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
It depends on the tags you use!
You will see 7 SU buttons on the bottom of my posts, but all are no-followed.. so not counted as outbound links!
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Am a 2+ years wordpress supporter and beta tester. Truely support wordpress very much. Using it, is the easiest way and no hassle at all.
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March 24th, 2008 at 11:39 am
wat about description and keywords for each article we post ? they are generated automatic in Seo pack …. whats better ? shall we change it as per our need or ???
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March 29th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Very interesting article, and helpful too!
thanks!
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March 31st, 2008 at 7:47 pm
And the new release of 2.5 is out. The new interface really look awesome.
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April 10th, 2008 at 6:54 am
I think changing Permalinks is the best one.
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April 21st, 2008 at 7:23 am
Hmmm…
I am on a lot of people’s blogroll. But the Back-Links show nothing…
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May 8th, 2008 at 10:48 am
If I am allowed to add would be to show full post content on a single post only and just an excerpt on front page and archive page to avoid duplicate content.
This blog is a testimony of what should be done as it only shows title instead.
Great blog you have it here with lots of information. Will drop by again surely.
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December 5th, 2008 at 9:38 am
search engine optimization is important to any website or blog because it helps you rank better in search engines