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SEO For WordPress Bloggers

Below are my top five SEO tips for WordPress bloggers.

1. Install an SEO plugin on your blog - such as the powerful All-in-One Seo or the newer more robust Platinum SEO. These two take care of alot of the basic onsite search engine optimization you need on your blog posts and pages. (this mostly applies to WordPress bloggers)

2. Get Backlinks – it doesn’t matter if your blog is a day old or 3 months old, you can never start too early to hunt down for link opportunities. Start with relevant directories.

3. Link To Yourself – Well not exactly. What I mean is make sure you regularly link to other articles, pages and blog posts you’ve written. This creates a spider web effect that search engines know and rely on.

4. Install a Sitemap – Sitemaps are literally maps to the content on your blog, and Google loves them. My favorite way to add a sitemap to my blogs is with the Dagon Design sitemap plugin. Fast, easy and free.

5. Use a Related Posts Plugin – this action produces similar results as installing a sitemap. It lets Google know of the content on your site and how it relates to the overall topic of your blog.

These are basic but powerful ideas, don’t underestimate any of these tips. If you haven’t yet added or practiced these SEO tips, now is a great time.

You’ll rise to the top in no time.

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About Missy

Missy Diaz is primarily a freelance writer (and blogger) that offers a popular guest blogging service to website owners. She also creates WordPress powered websites and blogs and is the author of Super Blogga, a fun action packed pocket guide aimed at new blog owners with over 70 bite size tips available as an ebook and on Amazon.

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This entry was posted by Missy on November 8, 2009 at 10:33 PM, and is filed under Blogging Tips, Wordpress. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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#1 written by Jobs UK 2 years ago

Besides All-in-One SEO Pack & Platinum SEO Pack, I recommend WordPress SEO Master which includes 4 modules: META, NoFollow, NoIndex & AutoLinker.

Cheers,

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- #2 written by Missy 2 years ago
  
  Hi,
  
  I’ve not heard of WordPress SEO Master, will have to look into it and check it out. It would be nice to have a comparison tree of these three wp plugins, to see the main differences between them.
  
  Thx for the solid tip!
  
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#3 written by Jobs UK 2 years ago

You’re welcome.

I’ve made a small review for this plugin, but it’s written in Romanian ( which I think it’s not helpful ).

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#4 written by Missy 2 years ago

Is WP SEO Master a paid plugin? Also you should definitely consider writing your review in English – or maybe add a translate plugin to your blog, like Global Translator so us darling Americans can see it.

Let me know.

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#5 written by Jobs UK 2 years ago

You’re probably right.

No, WP SEO Master isn’t a paid plugin.

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#6 written by Jobs UK 2 years ago

Another SEO plugin you can check: ‘wpSeo’ ( free for non-commercial blogs, $19.99 for commercial ).

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#7 written by Ben Pei 2 years ago

One SEO plugin isn’t enough!

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- #8 written by Missy 2 years ago
  
  Hey, Ben:
  
  I usually only use the All-In-One SEO plugin and i’m good to go. There are others out there – but this one does the job well enough for me. If you take care of onsite and offsite SEO stuff, you won’t need to add too many plugins for optimization. But…
  
  Which other SEO (wordpress plugins) do you recommend? And why?
  
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#9 written by jay @ work at home 2 years ago

The all in one plugin is a must. This plugin saves you plenty of time!

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#10 written by Free Reminder 2 years ago

Yes basic tips for every wordpress blogger. Link to yourself it’s a very important “must do” and i will add “link to number 1″ in your niche.

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#11 written by Cartuse 2 years ago

I try to restart a very old domain. This tips are useful and I give a try.

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#12 written by Holly 2 years ago

i am still looking for a good SEO plugin for WordPress. my blog is not ranking high enought for the keywords that i wanted to rank.

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- #13 written by Missy 2 years ago
  
  Hi, Holly:
  
  Which SEO plugin are you currently using? The two most popular are All In One SEO and Platinum SEO, both are free and both are available via the WordPress.org site.
  
  Another option you might want to consider is using the popular
  Thesis Theme which has on site SEO already built-in. With this theme, neither plugin is required.
  
  Let me know more. Cheers!
  
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#14 written by Link Building Company 1 year ago

Link building is an important factor for search engine optimization, try to focus on quality rather than quantity. The more quality links you build the higher your site will rank “quality” is a good word to remember when doing anything seo related to your site.

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