WordPress SEO Tips

WordPress is one of the famous blogging software in the world, its wide variety range of plugins and compatibility support the blogger to turn their blog in to the living things, I suggest everyone to go with WordPress, because of its compatibility for search engine optimization, it supports a number of plugins which can optimize your website for search engines crawlers. This tutorial is all about how-to optimize your WordPress blog for search engines, this is WordPress SEO Tips.
There are many ways you can optimize your WordPress blog, like using plugins tweaking the design and many more. This tutorial covers the entire concepts and make your blog ready for SEO.

WordPress SEO:

1. Using proper “Title” tags in the page. Your title should look like this…

php wp_title (”); ?>

2. Meta keywords and descriptions for each post, All in one SEO plugin will take care of this thing.
3. SEO friendly URL structure, by default your WordPress comes with ?p=104. This type of URL’s not good for search engine bots. The recommended URL structures are..

http://example.com/category/your-article-title/ http://example.com/your-article-title/ http://example.com/2011/02/20/your-article-title/

4. Use proper redirections for your pages, in case if you have deleted or moved anything, stop the 404′s, that will embarrass the visitors. You can use Redirections plugin to avoid this kind of 404′s and 301 error issues.
5. Force your visitor to stay for more time, show the related topics to the visitor. You can YARPP plugin.
6. Use SEO friendly images, use ALT and TITLE tags for all the images in your blog and blog posts. You can use SEO friendly images plugin.
7. Stop using STOP WORDS in the title and URL. The rule of thumb is saying that, you stop using the words like “is, and, are, but” etc. You can use SEO slugs to avoid the stop words.
8. Your theme structure is another important thing, means..your post title must have

   tag, try to have one h1 and h2 tags at least.

9. Add descriptions to your categories, most of the time webmasters ignore this important thing. Add description for every category.
10. Show your website structure to the visitors and as well as search engines, showing the navigation will improve your SERP rankings more..In order to show the structure and navigation of a post you can use Yoast Breadcrumb.
11. Noindex, follow your archives and search pages etc, nofollow ancillary links. Here you can use Robots meta plugin.
12. Compress your images using smushit plugin for faster loading.
13. Improve your blog speed using W3 Total Cache plugin.
14. Improve backlinks for your posts using Auto bookmarking submissions plugin.
15. Make your font style simple and readable for your visitors, don’t use fancy fonts.

I hope you have learned about WordPress SEO, let me know your opinion on this post in the comments section below.