In my Last SEO post,I tell u about the best wordpress plugins in the world.Now this time am telling about how to Setup SEO in WordPress Websites…This is very intreting & useful post,I hope u like it…
Setting Up the Permalink Structure
In WordPress: Settings >> General
The newer versions of WordPress make this extremely easy to do. Simply change the Blog Address (url) to http://www.domain.com. WordPress will automatically update your htaccess file to redirect the non-www version to the www version. If you have an older version of WordPress you will have to copy and paste the code provided into your htaccess file. However I would upgrade to the latest version of WordPress before I manually add it.
Search engines treat the www and non-www version of a page as two different pages. If not corrected, this can cause your blog to have hundreds or thousands of duplicate pages. By fixing this you are minimizing potential duplicate content issues.
The most effective way to optimize your urls is by using the custom permalink structure. Choose “Custom Structure” and enter “/%postname%/ “. By setting this custom structure your urls will look like www.domain.com/post-name/. This puts your post directly off the root level and uses keywords based on your post title.
Setting Up non-www to www Redirect
In WordPress: Settings >> General
The newer versions of WordPress make this extremely easy to do. Simply change the Blog Address (url) to http://www.domain.com. WordPress will automatically update your htaccess file to redirect the non-www version to the www version. If you have an older version of WordPress you will have to copy and paste the code provided into your htaccess file. However I would upgrade to the latest version of WordPress before I manually add it.
Search engines treat the www and non-www version of a page as two different pages. If not corrected, this can cause your blog to have hundreds or thousands of duplicate pages. By fixing this you are minimizing potential duplicate content issues.
Optimize Post Titles
In WordPress: Settings >> All in One SEO Pack
By default WordPress creates page titles like “Blog Title >> Blog Archive >> Post Name”. This is ok, but not optimal. Search engines will place more importance on the keywords at the beginning of the title tag so we will want to modify the tags so that the post name is at the beginning of the post and not the end.
To do this, make sure you install All in One SEO Pack. This plugin will automatically set up your title and meta description tags the proper way. Your page titles will now look like “Post Title | Blog Title“. You will have the option to override a specific post title within the post if you would like. Make sure you create a unique description after you have written your post. All in One SEO Pack will not create meta descriptions, so when creating a post there is a section for adding unique titles and descriptions.
Block Certain File Directories in Robots.txt
There are certain directories that you should block from search engines. Check out the Robots.txt guide I wrote that will show you exactly which directories you should block.
This will help with controlling which content you want search engines to crawl and not crawl. There are many directories and files that are unnecessary for the crawlers to spider. This will help the crawlers find the content you want spidered faster.
Install SEO Plugins
This SEO plugin is probably the best and most robust plugin for optimizing your blog for search engines. This plugin will automatically optimize your blog category and post url structure, auto generate title tags, avoid duplicate content issue by restricting search engines from accessing pages that have duplicate content on them, and canonical tag integration.
This plugin will automatically generate a XML sitemap of your wordpress blog that is formatted for Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. Your sitemap will be sent to all of the search engines every time the plugin rebuilds your XML sitemap. Having this plugin, ensures that the search engines are aware of all of your posts and will help with the overall crawling of your blog.
This plugin will add your Google Analytics tracking script to every page on your blog. There are also other options and features which give you more accurate tracking.
- Disable Admin Tracking
- Enable Event Tracking
- Track Outbound Link Clicks
- Track Downloads (PDF, CSV, DOC)
- Google Adsense Integration
- Ability to Modify Tracking Script
Interior linking will help with the overall crawling of your website, along with keeping readers engaged in your content. You can also leverage your content by using keyword-rich anchor text and linking to other content within your blog. This plugin does just that. It will take keyword and phrases within your post and comments and link them to corresponding posts on your site. This can significantly cut down on having to manually search for relevant posts on your site that you can link to within a post.
SEO Friendly Images will automatically optimize all of your images by adding alt and title attributes. If you do not have an alt or title attribute for your images, it will add one for you.
Load time is becoming an important factor in search engine algorithms. Not to mention a page that loads fast makes a visitor much happier and is more likely to stay on your site longer. W3 Total Cache will help speed up the page load times by caching pages, removing white space and comments, and compressing css and js files. Here are a few reasons why this plugin boasts it’s at least a 10x increase in site performance.
- Enable Page Caching
- Enable Minify
- Enable Database Caching
More SEO Quick Tips for WordPress
- Allow commenting for user generated comment and higher engagement
- Use good categorization for usability
- Add compelling graphics and images in your posts
- Ask questions at the end of your posts to encourage comments
- Syndicate your content to your Twitter and Facebook profiles
- Social bookmark your best content
Share your tips and tricks with us via comments section.
How to Setup SEO in WordPress Websites,
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