Blogging looks incredibly easy but when it comes to making them SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly it can become harder than you think. Because of this I have put together the top 10 SEO tips for your WordPress blog for you to utilize making your blog SEO friendly and a success.

Tip 1

XML Google Stiemaps Generator plugin is an amazing tool for you to use which notifies all of the search engines every time you post a new blog. This allows the crawler to help rank your blog post instantly.

Tip 2

Another useful plugin is the WP-PageNavi plugin. This plugin helps you to structure your links to your other blog posts. It creates a menu on your homepage that allows your readers to be directed to the right blog they want to read or a link onto from the page they are already on to another. A very valuable tool!

Tip 3

For the best in site linking you should use the Dagon Design Sitemap Generator. This is not like the Google version as it does not notify the search engines as soon as you post a new post on your blog but instead creates a sitemap which allows you better in site links.

Tip 4

Again another plugin but the SEO Slugs plugin limits the length of your URL which is connected to your blog post and improves the URL’s keyword inclusion. Another plugin that helps improve your blog post enabling you to improve the post’s potential.

Tip 5

Duplicate Content will cause you problems so to remove this you need to use the “prevent duplicate content hack” to your WordPress site. This important tool will make sure that your post is not displayed on every page of your blog for example the category, main and archives page all at once. This tool makes sure that your post is unique but does place it for a second time on the main page as well as your blog post page unless you use within the hack the “more” feature which cuts the post.

Tip 6

Linking yourrelated posts is another SEO tip for your WordPress blog as it develops and structures the in site linking. You can do this by using another plugin called the Related Posts plugin. This tool improves the inside pages of your WordPress site by linking them to your main page with informative text links using the title heading which is keyword enriched.

Tip 7

In conjunction with the SEO Slugs plugin (Tip 4) a good supporting plugin is the All in One SEO pack plugin which opens up your site allowing you to make additions to the meta tags in your description and keywords for every post you have and continue to add. This plugin is essential as it truly does optimize the SEO of your WordPress blog.

Tip 8

Permalinks are also a must have as it allows you to have Google friendly URL’s rather than the syntax that WordPress uses. By changing the custom part of the permalinks you can make sure that the structure is changed from the default syntax to the friendlier Google and other search engine URL’s making your WordPress blog easier for it to be ranked.

Tip 9

The most important on page SEO trick is to use the SEO Optimization Title Hack.  This allows you to change the inner page structure titles and the way they are tagged. This makes them easier for the search engines to find which helps your rank.

Tip 10

The basics are important, keep it simple. Things like making sure your post is only put in one category, use the “more” tag option and place it after the first paragraph of the post if it is displayed on the main page as Google’s Supplemental Index is NOT a good place to be.  Always thank your reader for reading your post, offer them the options to join your community blog roll and invite them to post their ideas and thoughts on your.

I would love to hear your thoughts and tips on SEO for Wordpress blogs, if you have any.

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