WordPress SEO Tips
This is the best practices that pertain to optimizing WordPress blogs for the search engines. Blogging using WordPress is the most popular method of blogging among professional. This can be used and implemented by any ordinary WordPress blogger.
Frequently publish content
This means frequent updating of blog content is a common practice for successful bloggers. If you are blogging and have NOT been updating your blog regularly for too long, that is clearly a mistake. If you think you are busy, consider how busy successfully bloggers must be. Yet, they does have clear commitments to blogging, and we can see their frequently post content. The lesson here is to have some commitment to update your blogs as frequently as possible depending on your goal. You can set realistic goals, for example two blog posts per week or even at least one post per week.
Post substantial and original content in a mix of lengths
Other WordPress bloggers formulate difficult rules for themselves and punish themselves by writing 1000 words per blog post! The pro’s blog entries, on the other hand, are a mix of short and long content while being substantial and original. On average, write around 400 words per blog post. It can be even less, since these are plain text content. Use also videos and images.
Be Generous with links and tight with security
Links to quality sources WITHOUT rel=nofollow
Some professional bloggers, even big ones, seem to be afraid of losing a lot of link juice. They do not even trust external links to other websites EVEN if they are editorially given. As a result, external links from blog posts are full of rel=nofollow attributes. The rules are simple: if the link is given editorially (i.e. in your blog post), you trust the site; if you trust the site, then you should not be using the rel=nofollow attribute.
Locations of external links in the blog are also important. In some WordPress blogs, we can always see links in blog rolls and link pages. However, You don’t have to use a link page, resources page or even a blog roll. Instead, includes good sources of content pointing to another website. You will put a link to it using accurate and descriptive keywords as anchor text.
The lesson here shows how to make your blog appear more naturally in search engines by proper external linking. Too many links in link pages or in a blog roll, accompanied by an absence of quality external links in blog posts, can be a red flag and connotes a spammy WordPress blog (that is perhaps being used for link exchanges).
You have to cares about blog security
Wp-admin has to be disabled for other uses. Some bloggers care less about security, and when they get hacked (common in WordPress), hackers insert malware links that cause the blog to lose ranks in Google, therefore hurting previous SEO efforts. Security should be part of any SEO effort. You always have to update your blog to use the latest version of WordPress.
Use of an effective content structure
You can benefits from keywords in title tag, internal links and header tags and this type of structure can be easily implemented using WordPress. You also need to take care og the tags when you change the tmplate, unfortunately, lots of bloggers have substantially modified their template and removed these important tags. Put the rel=nofollow on links that you think is not nessesary for the searhengines to follow.
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