WordPress is a great search engine optimized system even right out of the box but there is a lot more to do if you want to improve it.
If you have a blog or a website, you probably want people to come and read what you have there and this is where the SEO comes into place.
About eighty percent of a website’s traffic (traffic = visitors) comes from search engines like Google. If you want to increase the traffic coming from search engines you need to rank higher in the results, in order to do so you need to search engine optimize your website.
The most important things you need to do with your WordPress website are:
- Use Pretty Permalinks.
What does this mean? If you take a look at the address bar when viewing this post (not through the homepage or archive pages) you will see that the address is not something likehttps://orenyomtov.com/?p=123
(the default in WordPress), instead it’shttps://orenyomtov.com/wordpress-seo-tips.html
. This way you have the keywords of your title also in the URL and that helps a lot. - Use All In One SEO Pack plugin and change the post title tag from
%post_title% - %blog_title%
to%post_title% - %blog_title%
.
Why? This swaps the blog’s name and the post’s name in the<title></title>
tag. The first words in the title tag are more important from the last words so putting the post’s name first makes the page title more relevant to it’s content. e.g. beforeOren Yomtov’s Website - WordPress SEO Tips
, afterWordPress SEO Tips - Oren Yomtov’s Website
. - Use tags and categories wisely. They can contribute a lot to your search engine ranking as well as do nothing/hurt your ranking.
Don’t use too many tags (I say use about 4-8 tags per post), and when you do use them, try to use the same tags over and over again. WordPress Simple Tags plugin may help you with that. Try not to create more then 2 new tags for each post (of course when writing the first posts of the blog, almost all of the tags will be new). The same goes for categories, there is no need for lots empty/one post categories. When creating categories think what will help the user to navigate through your site and that will be the best for SEO most of the time. - Use Google Sitemap Generator plugin in order to auto generate the sitemap of your website each time you add a post/page. This helps Google to reach pages that they might not reach otherwise. After you install this plugin and make sure it works (check your sitemap.xml file), add & verify your website at Google Webmaster Tools and then submit the sitemap.
Remember, at the end of the day, your website is not for Google’s crawlers. It’s for humans, average users like you and me. So you need to keep the balance between what’s good for search engine optimizing, and what’s good for your readers.
good tutorial.very helpuly for me as new blogger.thanks.
Agreed 100%. Due to the user friendliness and seo power of WordPress I’ve started using modded versions of it for most of my sites. Good news is, all the things you’ve mentioned I do and they seem to be working wonderfully.
Cheers
Eric
Well written and and got some very good points regarding SEO
I love the all in one seo pack. It’s so easy to customize the meta tags with it. The other really cool one is the analytics plugin. It lets you know what is working with your SEO methods and what isn’t. Plus a whole heckuva lot more!!
nice and very useful post. i guess it will be easy to understand for those who know nothing about SEO
Thank u but you can give to me for blogspot SEO
Sorry but I never had a blog at blogspot so I can’t help you on this one pal :)
Very good tutorial, it helped alot, nice work.
You’ve made some very good points, and a lot can be learned from this. I, for one, have the all in one SEO pack plug-in installed on my WordPress.
Best regards,
Love R.F.
Thanks for your good information.
Very nice list. Thanks for the information. Im still learning how to maximize all in one SEO pack :)
Awesome job!
Kim
Thanks for the list of resources. I second you on All-in-One-SEO Pack, I use it myself.
You made some good points there,I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.
Nice tips for a newbie to WP SEO!
Thanks for the great info I’ll be using this on my websites.
Great information for every webmaster, ill try it out myself.
After reading this blog makes me want to start my own :)
i have been using WordPress for 2 years but i still dont know how to do SEO using WordPress, is there an SEO pluggin for WordPress?.
As a webdesigner myself , I’m truely glad to find that another individual brought up this topic.
All too many people don’t understand what all is involved in our field, and I think also we’re many times underrated
or taken for granted. Never the less I’m glad to see that you may feel the same way I do , thanks so much for this post!
Very nice.
I like your Perception :)
I am still a beginner in website SEO and i usually submit to website directories and article directories to boost the ranking of my site. .,~.
i host 5 of my blogs on Blogspot and it is really good for beginners. but if you want something with more features, nothing beats wordpress,–