How to seo a WordPress blog
- In this article you will learn how to seo a WordPress blog from a: how to write an individual post so it is seo-ed perspective.
The purpose of this post is not to talk about the technical aspects of how to seo a wordpress blog but more the writing of it so google can figure out what your post is about. I will not go into plugins or themes etc, simply how to seo a wordpress blog from a title and tag point of view.
When writing a wordpress post for seo – most important point
Think about what people will type in the google search box. What people type in should be your target keyword for the wordpress post.
How to seo a wordpress blog
What people type in should be your title, or very close.
How to seo your title
The title is the most important thing when you want to know how to seo a wordpress blog. Consider the title as the keyword or very close. You can try to make it a natural variation of the keyword people type in but I have found the closer I am to the actual words people type in the better. Do not mess with the title.
How to seo your WordPress permalink
What should your permalink be? in this case mine is how-to-seo-a-wordpress-blog Why? It matches what people type into the google search box.
Tags – How to use tags in your blog to help search engines determine relevance
Tags are the web 2.0 version of keywords. They again should match what people type into the google search box. My tags for this post is -> How to seo a wordpress blog, seo, wordpress blog.
Categories and WordPress
Choose one or maybe two categories, do not choose more as duplicate content is a bad thing for google. Less is more.
h1, h2, h3 – How to use headers to help search engine optimization
Use one h1. I set my title to my h1, as many themes do automatically, if not use only 1 h1 and a couple h2 and maybe h3s. Google likes variety. Do not use ten h2. Be natural. No spammy, nor stuff keywords. When you use headers - h1, h2, h3 – there should be some variation of your title/target tag phrase. Look how I have varied how to seo a wordpress blog. Not to imaginative, yes I know, but it works. Also bold and italics does not hurt, that is you can use bold and itaics for your keyword like this -> how to seo a wordpress blog. But nothing too much.
How to optimize WP – content
Content is king. But drop your target keyword (each post should have one and only one) into your wordpress post in every paragraph, a couple of times, in a natural way. Note how in this wordpess post I mention “how to seo a wordpress blog”, several times, because “how to seo a wordpress blog” is my target google search term. I actually over do it here in this post. Your post should consider semantic latent context indexing.
WordPress – disoriented reader – writing for readers not SEO
Be clear ok? Like your are writing for the New York Post not an academic journal, no one reads those anyway. Try to write in a clear, crips fashion to help people, not to impress or sell them. Be humble, be clear. Do you like being sold? I do not. So write in a natrual honest clear way. Also People do not read the web they scan webpages. Think about it. Make it simple and easy for the reader to determine what is going on in your wordpress post. Web surfers are disoriented when they land on a new page. Myself included, they will take 5 seconds then leave if they can not determine the point of your wordpress post. Help them by keeping it simple and they will get more from your wordpress post. Seo how at the begining of this post I state my pupose, that is to explain how to seo a wordpress blog.
Long pages – for writing that is not just headlines
If you are more a classical writer – great. Make a long article a wordpress page not a wordpress post. Make it in your sytle natural with less considertion about SEO. Then write some short highly seo wordpress posts about the page and link to it. This is how to seo a wordpress blog.
Promote your wordpress post
You spent so much time to write the darn thing, now market it. Ok? Take the time to go to your favorate social media sites and market it. This is an important part of how to seo a wordpress blog.
How is your blog ranked?
Umm. Its not. I wrote a post on how to seo a wordpress blog, but how do I rank in google? I do not. Why? This is a new site, no links, it will take time and patience to build this up. But I have other sites that gets tons of traffic, and one that easily get over 1/4 million page views a month. So I know what I am talking about with regards to how to seo a wordpress blog.
Questions about how to seo a WP site
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