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SEO techniques for WordPress blogs

There is a great power of SEO built into WordPress. Unfortunately, not everything comes by default, and you may not know what is best when it comes to templates and options.

This simple and easy-to-follow article will outline a lot of WordPress SEO tips that people often forget to implement (even the most famous bloggers), or haven’t arrived for some reason or another yet.

If you want your wordpress site to appear in search engine results, you will have to do a bit of on-page search engine optimization.

Fast facts

* There are 55 million blogs out there, if you don’t stand out you won’t have a chance.

* The first second of a visitor’s attention is the most crucial.

* Your main traffic should come to articles and posts within your blog, not the home page.

* Search engine rankings are highly dependent on the quality and quantity of links to your blog when determining ranking.

* The best way to get links is through natural recommendations from other bloggers or website owners.

All in One Seo Plugin

This SEO plugin is designed to give you the best options out of the box, however depending on your situation your mileage may vary and no one set of options is perfect for every site. If you only use one plugin on your wordpress site, make it this one. This little plugin will help make your site Google friendly, and you don’t even need to know what you’re doing.

In the plugin settings area, make sure to put your site title, making sure your keywords are in the title.

Add 5 keywords in the meta area, which are related to your site. Do some good keyword research before you start and you’ll be generating traffic in no time.

Add a footer link

If you go to the design area – theme editor, you will see a place to edit your footer area. Be sure to put a link in the footer. This link should have a keyword anchor text as the clickable part of your link.

A footer link will give you an anchor text link to each and every page on your site, including all tag, post, and page pages. As your site grows, there will be many links.

Keywords in the title

When you name your website, it’s fun to be cute or tongue-in-cheek, but if you’re trying to drive traffic to your site, it’s best to use your keyword in the title.

You can add words before or after your keyword to make the title make more sense, but include the title there.

Your site title will be what people see in search engine results. It also appears in the top blue header on Google. It is one of the most important things search engines look for when they provide specific results to a search engine.

Change permalinks

This is one that I see a lot of people, not just beginners, forget to do. A permanent link is the link to a specific post or page that people can use to go directly to that particular page on your site.

The default permalink structure won’t help your SEO efforts at all. You want to customize the structure of your permalink to display your post title after your blog title.

Just go to your wordpress admin area. In the settings, you will see a permanent links area. At the bottom of the list, you will see a place to check the custom. Click on that and then in the provided area type /% postname% / this will get your keywords for each and every post in your permalink. Just make sure to use keywords in your post titles.

There you have quick SEO tips to increase your page optimization. They shouldn’t take more than a minute to do, but you’ll notice a big difference once it’s done.

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