Category: Blog Seo

10 SEO Benefits Of WordPress – How WordPress Can Help You With SEO

I know I have already made couple of big posts about how to optimize your wordpress for SEO and of course it involved usage some plugins which comes really handy to accomplish what we want. Today I am not going to give out any tutorials regarding wordpress seo. I am just going to point out what are the SEO benefits which wordpress comes with, without the usage of any plugins or addons or whatsoever.

1. Permalinks:

First thing that comes to my mind about wordpress in terms of search engine optimization is the flexibility it provides with respect to url structure. You can alter the structure of permalinks to your liking and add keywords you want to focus on for each and every post you make. You should know that search engines even look in to the url when ranking webpages in its index.

How To SEO WordPress With SEO Ultimate Plugin For WordPress

Well I remember spending couple of days to prepare my first wordpress seo tutorial and I made it as exhaustive as possible to cover many aspects of search engine optimization you can achieve with wordpress. But to be frank I am kinda lazy person I myself do not implement all the things I covered in that tutorial. If you can do all that I have mentioned in the guide its well and good. What if you need a quick solution to seo your wordpress blog? is there a short way around? Well of course yes! That’s where this SEO Ultimate plugin comes in to play.

How Do I Optimize My Blog?

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I got a question through my mail after a long time from a blogger Sheela from India asking me, she wants to know how do I optimize my blog? Its an interesting question which I would love to answer for my own personal feel good factor hehe.. Ok coming back to the question “how do I optimize my blog?”

To be frank I give more importance for on-page optimization over off-page, that doesn’t mean off-page optimization is not important. but my personal opinion is on-page optimization carries 60% of SEO over off-page, I know many seo-professionals and experts may not agree with me but its my personal opinion. Whenever I design a blog I focus more on my visitors and I design my blog based on it, I do analyze what are the age groups, their behavior patterns and other details about my visitors and decide up on my layout accordingly.

Speed up Your WordPress Blog With Two Simple Tricks

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I am going to update this tricks on the next update of wordpress SEO which is most likely to happen with in next couple of days as I review the different sections of the tutorial and make updates on them. But for now I am giving out these tricks which might help you a little.

1. Enabling Web Server Compression:
Enabling web server compression will reduce the size of your pages by compressing them, this will help you a lot with faster page loads, load on the server, also search bots will find it helpful to crawl through pages with reduced file size, it increases the over all site performance and user experience. To enable this compression all you need to do is create a php.ini file in your server root and include these lines in it.

How To Prevent Content Theft From Your WordPress Blog

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Content theft is one of the biggest problems faced by many webmasters nowadays, some claim that content theft is not something to be worried about as search engines tend to give the original content more value over others, but still there are some occasions where I found duplicate contents rank high over original contents, especially the site which duplicated your content has high PR and old domain name, there are also cases where people tend to steal your pics and its url and use it on their site which might very well play a role on your over all bandwidth. So in order to avoid these consequences its better to safe ground your blog against content theft and there are simple ways with which you can achieve this.

Simple Themes Don’t Mean They Are SEO Friendly

There is a misunderstanding among many bloggers that, when they choose a simple and elegant looking theme, they think its a SEO friendly theme, but it may not be necessarily true because of some reasons. Here are something you need to know why simple themes doesn’t mean they are SEO friendly.

1. Simple and elegant looking themes may also use large number of images in its design. You need keep an eye on them, because themes which uses large number of images for its layout takes longer time to load, that potentially reduces the site speed.

2. Themes that use java scripts and flash in its design might well look elegant and simple too, but they are not really as search engine friendly as you might think.

4 Tips On How To Distribute Keywords In Your Blog Post

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Unless you use the actual terms you want to rank for in your blog posts and description areas, there is less chance that you will start to show up in search engines for those terms, unless you have an extra ordinary amount of back links that is linking to you for that term.

Lets be more practical and we know for sure that chances are less that you will get millions on people to link to you with the term that is actually not present in your blog anywhere, So it becomes more necessary that you should be using the keywords in your blog post for which you want search engines to show up your pages in their results. Here are some of the ways which you can try to distribute your keywords across your blog post and other areas that relates to your blog post so that you might actually show up for the search term.

Setting Up Your Pinging List In Your WordPress Blog

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Pinging services are useful in informing search engines and other sources that you have updated your blog. Fortunately wordpress comes with an excellent system that does the work for you automatically all you need to do is just make an initial setup and you can just go about updating your blog. Every time you update your blog with new post wordpress automatically pings these search engines and other services notifying them that you have updated you blog and request them to come and check it out.

Here is how you can set up your pinging service.

Go to your writing services under settings option. And by default you will have wordpress pinging to pingomatic, but you can add other services and update the list. Here is the list of services I use.

6 Tips On How To Speed Up Your Blog

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You might have known it already that site’s speed might well be soon taken in to consideration for ranking websites as the new Google search engine starts to unfold by 2010.

So just don’t be left out of the competition here are some tips to help you as a blogger to make your blog faster and smoother.

1. Try to use templates that uses less number of images in its design, I have seen a lot of templates that uses more number of images to decorate many parts in your templates, they might well look good but when it comes to site’s loading speed these images might well stand on the way of your site speed.

5 Tips For Writing Better Articles For SEO

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1. First thing we must understand while writing articles is that it may fall under two different categories, one is writing for search engines and other is writing for your visitors. So which one is better? I would say your article should have a bit of both, you must make sure you are not flooding down your keyword your are focusing on a particular article so that it chases your visitors away frustrated and also its not good from SEO point of view either, So just write great contents that gets the readers interested with the right blend of keywords.

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