Wordpress SEO Tips
I’ve become a big advocate of using Wordpress to quickly create sites that are easy to modify and maintain. What I like about Wordpress is that I can add content and grow the site from anywhere I have internet access.
I don’t need to be carrying around a laptop with all my website tools like XsitePro, Frontpage, etc. I don’t even need to have an FTP account to upload the new content. If I’m travelling I can simply go to the nearest internet cafe and just type in the latest page of information.
Search engines love finding new content and that helps with getting more traffic. And more traffic means it is easier to monetize the site.
That said, there are a lot of other things that can be done to a Wordpress site to make it even more search engine friendly.
Here is a great site http://www.marketingop.us/2006/06/13/steps-wordpress-seo/ that has a nice summary of plugins and tips to make your Wordpress site more SEO friendly.
The 4 plugins mentioned on this site are:
1. Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.
2. Google Sitemaps.
3. Related Posts.
4. WordPress SEO plugin from Marketingop.us
Here’s another good link on SEO tips, although his suggestions may already be implemented in some of the above plugins. I need to check it out more…
http://www.dech.co.uk/2005/11/ultimate-WordPress-seo-tips/
Yet another good site explaining tags for SEO.
http://seo.blorc.com/seo/wordpress-seo-first-steps/
In addition to installing the Ultimate Tag Warrior this site suggests installing the plugin Tags In The Head as well.