Archive for November, 2007
Wordpress seo: 5 tips for improving search engine visibility
by Justin Silverton
The following are 5 changes you can make to your wordpress blog that can improve your search engine visibility.
1. Permalinks - changing your Wordpress permalinks to be search-engine friendly. To change the default link type, go to options->permalinks.
The default link structure option looks like this:
Here is the more seo-friendly option:
2. Create a Sitemap - A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. The sitemap file is supported by many search engines, including google. A free plugin is available here
3. Improve the titles of your articles - Title tags are arguably the most important of the on-page factors for search engine optimization. A free plugin is available here that can help you optimize your titles.
4. Site Submissions - Submit your articles to directories and RSS feed sites. A good site is onlywire.com. Here you can submit your blog articles to multiple social bookmarking sites at a time.
5. Tagging & Meta Keywords - implementing tags on your blog and how to use them as meta keywords. This plugin. Adds you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries.
