Quick Facts

1. There are 55 actor blogs out there, if you don’t angle out you will accept no chance.

2. The aboriginal added of a visitors absorption is the a lot of crucial.

3. Your capital cartage should appear to online writing and posts central your blog, not the home page.

4. Seek engine rankings relies heavily aloft the superior and abundance of links to your blog if they actuate the ranking.

5. The best way to get links is by accustomed recommendations from added bloggers or web website owners.

Section 1: Optimize Your Blog

Usually the WordPress capacity are able-bodied advised and structured already but there are a amount of things you absolutely should do to advance it for bigger enhancement for seek engines.

Using the best URLs

To accredit the permalinks is simple and you accept apparently already done that, just go to Options -> Permalinks in the admin panel. But what architecture is the best to choose? The anatomy /%postname%/ - annihilation else. This is best because your URLs to your online writing should never change. And if you accept it like this it does not amount if you change the class of the commodity or republish it with a new date, it will consistently be the aforementioned URL (more about that later). And if you appear to accept two posts with the aforementioned appellation it is not a botheration as WordPress will automatically add “-2″ in the end.

Have you been application the amiss format? Well, if your blog is not absolutely new you should not change. It is not basic and for the next time you accomplish a blog you apperceive how to accomplish it right.

Handling URL Canonization

Every WordPress blog has an affair in which there are 4 altered URLs for the aforementioned column and this has to be anchored to anticipate dilution. Follow my adviser on how to fix it here.

Title Tags

The appellation tag is the a lot of important HTML-tag in agreement of SEO.

Here are altered versions you should use central the amid in theme/header.php

Optimum ranking:
<?php if(is_home()) { echo ‘Your blogs name | Few important words’; } else { wp_title(”) ;} ?>

For branding purposes:

<?php if(is_home()) { echo ‘Your blogs name | Few important words’; } else { Your blogs name: wp_title(”) ;} ?>
The best appellation tag band-aid for avant-garde users

Either install and appropriately use the SEO Appellation Tag plugin or do the following:

1. Download and install this plugin.

2. Replace with the ambience in header.php on single.php, page.php and category.php.

3. Work out the best titles for the altered versions and use the plugin to actualize altered versions of category.php and single.php with their own versions of appellation tags. For archetype if your class with ID 5 is “SEO News” you could accept the afterward appellation tag in single-cat-5.php:
<title>SEO News: <?php { wp_title(”) ;} ?></title>

In category.php you could have:
<title><?php { wp_title(”) ;} ?> | Your Name</title>

Headings

Headings are authentic by HTML with H1 (largest) to H6 (smallest). You charge to use them in your online writing if you write. Your commodity appellation should be in a capital branch (H1), sub headings with H2 and baby headings with H3.

Make abiding that in theme/single.php this cipher is captivated in H1 so that it looks like:

<?php the_title(); ?>

If your affair artist already acclimated a specific CSS architecture for the branch tags you can do like this:
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
1. Open up theme/single.php and add
to the top afterwards and
to the basal afore .

2. Add again add for archetype the afterward curve of CSS to your CSS file:

.singleheadings h1 {font-size:XXpx;font-family:XX}
.singleheadings h2 {font-size:XXpx;font-family:XX}
.singleheadings h3 {font-size:XXpx;font-family:XX}

You can change your quicktags by for archetype application this book instead (also add H2 to the file) so that you calmly can admit branch tags if you write.

Navigation

Most of the hotlink ability is advancing to the home page of your blog and gets broadcast analogously a part of the blow of the links on that page. So in added to accepting a acceptable aeronautics anatomy for your visitors aswell do the following:

Have links to the a lot of important online writing and pages from your home page. That can calmly be accomplished by authoritative a class with your best online writing and application the WP Class Column plugin to accomplish a account of them on the index.php file.

Install the Related Posts plugin and accept your online writing hotlink to agnate articles.

Also hotlink yourself to antecedent online writing you accept written.

Place the aspect rel=”nofollow” on links that are absolutely abortive for seek engines such as to RSS feeds for the blog and animadversion links. In case you wish to abolish the nofollow on the animadversion links accomplish abiding you analysis the columnist links afore approval as it is important that you don’t hotlink to bad sites from your blog.

You should not accept hundreds of alien links on the home page, if you accept that I acclaim that you abode them on a abstracted page.

Site Map

A Website Map is area your visitors go to cross and acquisition specific online writing and posts on your blog. It is aswell a abode for seek engines to acquisition links to all your pages on your blog.

Use my commodity on how to accomplish an automated WordPresss Website Map and add one for your blog. I adopt that you accomplish the aboriginal adaptation in the guide.

What about a Google Sitemap?

It is not needed. There is no acumen for a WordPress blog with a able aeronautics anatomy to abide a Google Sitemap added than for advice purposes. A Google Sitemap does not advance your ranking, alone crawling, and that is not a problem.

Design

Everyone has altered tastes about architecture but actuality are credibility to anticipate about if you architecture your blog:

Keep the architecture simple, actual simple.

Have the physique argument big with big and bright headings.

For some acumen blogs are not admired in the big amusing arrangement sites (like digg, reddit etc) so accomplish your affair different and try to accomplish it attending like a website and not a blog.

Make abiding annihilation steals absorption from your text.

The argument amplitude should not be best than one and a bisected alphabet, even shorter.

When a company alcove an commodity on your blog, the argument should be apparent instantly. Accept the argument as far up as possible. A company should not accept to annal to ability the content.

If you are not authoritative appropriate money with ads I advance you to abolish all ads you accept on the blog.