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What is SEO? How to optimize WordPress for it?

September 12th, 2009 Ankit Leave a comment Go to comments

Digg There are some bloggers who are blogging on WordPress, but  they don’t even know what is SEO. So today I decided to write an article on SEO and WordPress optimization for better SEO. Before writing any tip, let me explain you first what is it.

Search engine optimization is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural search results. Typically, the earlier  a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.

How can we optimize our WordPress for it?

WordPress software is said to be optimized for SEO by default, but though there are some better optimizations which can be use to boost search engine results, in this article I am going to explain you all common SEO optimization tips.

  • Title of postThe post title of your article should be always user- friendly and catchy so that who so ever reads the title get attracted towards it.
  • Meta Title – There is a little difference between the title and the meta title. Title is the heading of your article or post while meta title is the title you want search engine to show in search results.
  • Description – Your post/article summary or discription should be catchy because most of readers first read the summary or description of the article, then if they find the summary interesting, then only they read full article.
  • Keywords – Keywords should be properly used depending upon your article’s summary as they will be targeting the search results.
  • Content – Some newbies thing that posting often will them to increase their site traffic, they are wrong!. There is no use of writing spam or review posts as no one will like to read your post, but if your content is nice or interesting, then everyone will like to read it which will help you increase your traffic so always try to write interesting articles.

Plug-ins for SEO Optimization

Hope till now you guys may be familiar with WordPress plug-ins as I told you about them in  “How to install WordPress plug-ins” post of “Learn WordPress in three days” series, don’t worry if you are yet not familiar with it, I am again going to explain you.

Plugins are PHP based  tools which extend and expand the functionality of WordPress. You can add plugins by just uploading it to your wp-content > plugins folder that is in your WordPress directory. More info.

  • All in one SEO pack - Its a nice plug-in with inbuilt option for entire required field for SEO optimization of any post or page.
  • Socialize – The plugin was designed to make it very easy to manage. Instead of adding new meta keys, like other plugins require, there is an additional panel in your posts admin page that allows you to select which bookmarks you want to display. This is to encourage people to choose more relevant bookmarks for their posts.

SEO optimized themes -

There are some WordPress themes available on triple W which are already fully SEO optimized, you don’t need to do anything with those themes they will automatically do what is necessary.

  • Swift theme - This theme is mainly aimed at blogs running on low server resources and for those who like clean and simple designs. It’s always good have themes like SWIFT at your disposal so that you can easily switch to it if you are expecting a spike in traffic from social media sites.
  • Sahina Tech – Its 3-columns simple, clean theme with lightning fast speed., we can add an image on each post.. we can put anything anywhere on front page just like Digital Inspiration and best thing is that it use only 4 images so it’s blazing fast!

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  1. September 12th, 2009 at 23:24 | #1

    bhai teri site toh bahut achhi hai yaar…………its very good……

  2. September 12th, 2009 at 23:28 | #2

    @paras Thanks for the comment dude. :)

  3. September 15th, 2009 at 17:13 | #3

    really very nice post about SEO..
    .-= P.K.ARUN´s last blog ..Image uploading problem in Wordpress[Wordpress Fix] =-.

  4. September 15th, 2009 at 18:34 | #4

    @P.K.ARUN Thanks :|

  5. September 16th, 2009 at 12:16 | #5

    You can also try platinum-seo-pack it’s really nice..
    .-= sham´s last blog ..Free Bookmark Box from Technobuz =-.

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