SEO Tips for your Wordpress Blog

Author: Bryan Joseph King – www.yourdailyguide.org

A lot of blogs are using wordpress because it is one of the most seo-friendly Content Management System (CMS). So here i am going to list some seo tips to improve your wordpress blog. These are important things to get your wordpress blog optimized. It will help you gain more traffic and rank better in search engines like google, yahoo, msn, etc.

• Install Wordpress PluginsYou can get a lot of free plugins online and they will help a lot in optimizing your blog. You can view an article of mine that lists the Best SEO Plugins for Wordpress.
• Optimize permalinksThe default permalink is not seo-friendly and should be changed right away. For me, the most seo-friendly would be to use /%postname%/ which will make something like this http://yourdailyguide.org/ways-to-increase-link-popularity/ . You can change your permalink by going to Settings >> Permalinks and choose custom structure and input /%postname%/ .
• Optimize page titlesPage titles are the most important in your single page and should be placed between h1 tags. Titles should be short but keyword-rich.
• Remove hyperlink of the Title of your single postsI saw a lot of blogs that hyperlinks the title of their single posts and this is no longer needed since it will still link on the same page. You can easily edit it at Presentation and edit the single.php file.
• Validate your codeThere are a lot of tools online that you can use to validate your code. By validating your code, it will help search engines to crawl your site easier. This requires knowledge in web design to fix these codes so if you can’t do it, you can hire a web developer to do it for you.
• Add Meta Keywords and DescriptionAlways add meta keywords and description to your blogs because it will help the search engines to identify what kind of blog you have. Choose your keywords wisely (means that you choose keywords that are not so competitive but has a good search volume).
• Deep-Linking your postsDeep-linking is where a post of yours links to another related post of yours. Choose the keywords to hyperlink wisely, choose the one that fits most to the post that you’ll be linking.

What is SEO?

What is SEO ?

So you are here because your are wondering what SEO is? SEO is called Search Engine Optimization. The name pretty much gives you a hint itself but, let’s take a deeper look into better understanding what Search Engine Optimization is, how it works, and how it will benefit you and your website or blog.

If you own a website or a blog, you of course want to rank(be placed higher within search engines) and target as much traffic(website visits/hits) as you can. Nothing beats Organic Traffic. Organic Traffic is natural traffic that comes from people searching for keywords and terms that relate to your website within search engines and simply going to yours.

The more traffic that your website receives,the more money that you can make off of simply managing your website about something you may or may not love to write about. With this you don’t have to put in money to make it. If you are clueless to making money online with your website, shoot on over to our “Making Money Online” category.

Now that these basics are out of the way, let’s discuss SEO. As stated above, this is a practice of optimizing your website to rank well within search engines. I will discuss a couple of the main, basic ways of doing so.

• Building Back-links
• Using Anchor Text
• Using Keywords To Target Traffic
• Optimizing Your Meta Tags
• Unique Content

The best way to rank well within Google is by building back-links. A back-link is simply a one way link back to your site. Google counts this as a vote for your website. You want to build quality back-links with sites that are relevant to your niche(what your website is about) and with high PR websites. (PR is Page Rank 1-10, 10 being the highest). You can check website page rankings by simply using the Google Page Rank Checker tool.

Within back-links you want to use anchor text. Anchor text is the text within a link. Within this text you want to use keywords that you are trying to rank for within Google. So for let’s say this site, I would link with a few sites with my site link on theirs being “SEO Tips” then on a few others “SEO Tutorials” and on others “Search Engine Optimization” and so on so forth. You don’t want to over use just one keyword. Try to rank for a few different ones that are related to your website. It’s up to you how many you want to try and rank well for.

Using keywords which are related to your website to drive traffic is of course a must. As stated above, these are terms that you want people to search for within Google and stumble upon your site by searching them. Use keywords in meta tags, page titles, article titles, categories in your navigation bar, within your articles and etc. Do not overuse keywords in articles or on pages for this is called keyword stuffing and your site may get penalized or banned.

For every web page that you have, you want to have optimized meta-tags which are in the header of your page. Use keywords within your meta-title, description, and meta-keywords. Meta-keywords really aren’t too effective on ranking anymore because of the abuse of keyword stuffing in the past. It still doesn’t hurt to use it though. In your titles of pages, use some keywords you are trying to rank for. In the description, describe what the page is about while using a few keywords within the first 150 characters or so.

Unique Content is something I have to stress. Google doesn’t like duplicate pages and plagiarized work. Always update with fresh content that hasn’t been discussed before. Even if it has, write it better than all of those others out there. I do not recommend using article re-writers. If you can’t write a decent article about something you are interested in, you don’t need to be running a website.

Remember, you don’t have to pay out thousands of dollars to have your site ranked well within Google. You can do this yourself and we give you all of the tools, tutorials, and tips needed to achieve this. We use all of these methods on this site constantly and by each day that goes by, we rank higher and higher.

If you have any further questions simply leave a comment.

–R&R Craig

Search Engine Optimization Poison Words

Here is a list I have dug up for a while back which are called Poison Words in the Google / SEO Tips world. These poison words are words you do not want to use with your site or blog for google and google adsense looks down upon them.

I am going to look around for more words to dig up so enjoy for now!

When Is The Next Google Update

The Next Google Update

I would venture to guess that one of the most common questions on any webmaster forum involves someone asking, “When is the next Google update?” Although they are probably asking about visible PageRank updates in the Google toolbar, the answer involves a bit more than that.

Visible PageRank is what you see in your Google toolbar. At this point, that has been updating an average of every three months or so.

HOWEVER, real PageRank is continually updated and continually factored into how the search results are determined. By the time you see a change in the toolbar, any effects of that change have already long since been included in the search results.

Google updates its index data, including backlinks and PageRank, continually and continuously. We only export new backlinks, PageRank, or directory data every three months or so though. (We started doing that last year when too many SEOs were suffering from “B.O.”, short for backlink obsession.) When new backlinks/PageRank appear, we’ve already factored that into our rankings quite a while ago. What Is An Update by Google Engineer, Matt Cutts

For a few years now people have been confused as to what the cache date on page actually indicates. It used to be that if there were no changes on the page since the last cache date, then often Google would only change the cached version of the page about once or twice a month. If there had been changes, people would see the cached page updated much sooner.

Google has now changed the cache date to reveal the last date the page was accessed by Google. (Updated September 6, 2006)

“We’ve recently changed the date we show for the cached page to reflect when Googlebot last accessed it (whether the page had changed or not). This should make it easier for you to determine the most recent date Googlebot visited the page.” Google Webmaster

How often a page is crawled is determined by the number of links that are out there bringing the robots back to your website again.

Search engine spiders crawl the web on a continual basis by following links. The more links that are pointed to your site, the more often your pages will be crawled.

This means that websites with very few links pointed to them, will notice it taking longer for Google to find and index their new pages.

Websites with a large number of links pointed to them will likely see their new and updated pages added to the index quite rapidly.

The search engine result pages update continually. As Google finds new information, it is added to the index. The goal of the search engines is to display the results in the exact order of relevance to the search query. The more relevant your page is to the search query, the higher your page should show in the results.

Since the information going into that determination is continually changing, so are the results you see in search engine results. When you combine all that with occasional changes in how Google factors page relevance (algorithm) to the search query, you end up with results that are continually fluctuating.

In the end, all of this should mean very little to you as a site owner. The more time you spend focused on what Google is up to, the less time you are spending on building a website filled with quality content for your visitors.

If you follow the basic guidelines and develop a quality site that invites incoming links naturally, you can focus on your results over time, rather than day to day search engine fluctuations.

By www.website-development-training.com

2 Overlooked SEO Tricks That Can Double Your Traffic

I thought this was an interesting article that I would share with you all.By

Kenneth Koh

It’s no longer a secret that the way to get good ranking in the search engines is to build backlinks. But besides backlinks, there are two other SEO tricks that are important but often overlooked. These two factors can play a significant role in getting SEO traffic.

Today we are going to discuss these 2 overlooked SEO tricks that can easily double your search engine traffic.

1) Title That Clicks

If you are a blogger or content website builder, besides choosing the right keyword and optimizing it, you should spend some time to come out with a title that will entice people to click.

Think about it. Even if your website rank #1 in the search result, if the title of the link is boring, people will just skip your link and move on to the next result.

This is commonsense, but it’s often overlooked, especially for those who outsource article writing.

Personally, although I outsource article writing for my content websites (aka Adsense websites), I still put in the effort to rewrite every title personally. This is because freelance writers are good in writing, but they are often not good in writing juicy title.

I run a program where I help members to promote their Adsense website (membership closed). The method I use to promote their websites is the exact same method that I use to promote mine. But strange enough, my Adsense websites perform much better than theirs. Honestly I can’t think of a logical explanation except for the fact that my titles are juicier than theirs!

2) Turn Every Webpage Into A Resource Center

If you haven’t noticed, besides backlinks, Google has been putting more weight in the ‘resourcefulness’ of a webpage.

Note that I say resourcefulness of a ‘webpage’, not ‘website’.

The idea is this:

If your webpage is about headache, regardless of what your website is about, it would be good to have lots of other headache related articles (from the same website) linked to this webpage. This way, this webpage looks like a good resource center for headache.

Let me show you an interesting website that demonstrates this point:

Take a look at this webpage from Bigresources.com. This webpage, as well as other similar webpages in this website, has the following characteristics:

- All of them rank well in Google, especially in long tail keywords.
- None of them are unique content (they are syndicated from different forums).
- Every webpage contains lots of other internal links. More importantly, the links are in the same topic as this webpage. (In the example, this webpage is about javascript, update, div, frame. You can see that all the internal links in this page are related to these keywords.)

To Google, every webpage on this website looks like a great resource center where visitors can look for more information on the same topic.

Actually this is the internal linking strategy that Wikipedia adopts and it’s doing very well in the search engine. The difference between wikipedia and bigresources is that Wikipedia has unique content whereas Bigresources uses primarily duplicated content. But does Google care?

Understanding this point, when you design your website, you should make sure that the articles in the same topic are linked. This way, every single webpage in your website can look like a good resource center for that topic. For those who use Wordpress blog, this can be done by adding a ‘related post’ plugin. For static websites or other content platforms, you’ll have to think of ways to achieve the same effect.

Learn SEO – Design & Structure

Now that we have introduced you to search engine optimization let’s move on. Design and structure play a crucial role in developing your website. You want to make it appealing but then again crawlable by search engine spiders.

Navigation

As I have explained previously, with navigation you don’t want to use images or flash in place of your text for categories. Using images behind it with text layered over it or css menu’s works fine. The reason being is search engine spiders cannot read the text for your categories when they are an image or flash object. They read text.

Now with your categories you don’t want to use titles for example if you have an seo site:

tips , tricks , tutorials and etc..

Try to use some of your targeted keywords in it that define your websites categories like:

SEO Tips , SEO Tutorials, etc..

Meta Tags:

Optimizing your tags may be tricky for some, let’s discuss meta keywords first. These will not help your page ranking anymore because of the abuse in the past but it is still good through put a few of your targeted keywords in there. If I remember the limit is 600 chars in the tag. I would only use 25 or less words to really describe my site / page.

Using a meta description for each page describes what it is about in the search engine listings. Try to make it stick out from the other sites. Now for meta title and pages titles you want to base it off of your pages topic with one or 2 keywords in it. This will help your ranking and is appealing to the user searching for selected content.

Layout

Designing a nice layout is always hard. As explained in the intro, you always want to draw out a rough draft on paper before you begin to put it to action. Don’t make your layout too overwhelming with links,text,images crammed all over. I usually stick with a nice simple structure with a few decent images and what not. It all depends on what kind of site you are running. With gaming websites you can get away with all of the cool images everywhere and what not. Remember, css does wonders.

Sitemap

Having a site map let’s spiders know all of your pages updates and what pages you have. Anytime you add new content or update a page you want to make an update your you site map. You can find free sitemap websites all over the net that make it simple to create one. You want to submit it to Google when you are done. I will just discuss the robots.txt file here. With this file it will tell search engine spiders which directories that you want crawled and which ones you do not. This helps if you have private things or just stuff you don’t want listed in search engines.

The next addition to this tutorial will be on Content. Stay tuned!

New SEO WordPress Plug-In by SEO Inc.

SEO Inc is a leading search engine optimization company. They have announced their new release of what is called SEO Nova which is a new wordpress plug-in that optimizes your blog for search engines. As most of us know they are thousands of wordpress plugins out there and many Search Engine Optimization Plug-in’s for Wordpress.

With every new release, SEO Inc strives to improve on these plug-in’s with an easier interface for user and teaches us that much more on learning SEO Techniques.

This new plug-in enables bloggers whether they are a beginner or a self proclaimed expert to optimize their blog’s search engine presence with improved help and tips on SEO.

Here are some words from Haven Brady and some features listed on their latest blog:

Download SEO Nova Wordpress Plug-in

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“Although there are other WordPress SEO plug-ins available, these tools miss the mark when it comes to offering supporting information on SEO best practices” said Haven Brady, Director of Media Strategies at SEO Inc. “SEO Nova provides bloggers with a turn-key style platform condensed within an easy to navigate format for those who want to know why and how to increase their search engine visibility.”

With the SEO Nova plug-in, bloggers of all technical skill levels will be able to enhance their blog’s search engine presence through improved automation and guidance on SEO Best Practices.

• Optimize post and page titles for search engines
• Generate META tags automatically
• Customize post level META data with “SEO Best Practices” guidance
• Post page optimization control
• Sub page optimization control
• Automatically set 301 redirects for any permalink changes
• Fine tune search engine indexing to avoid duplicate content issues at any level
• Optimize with confidence using a comprehensible interface and easy-to-understand function descriptions

SEO Nova is now available free for download at www.seoinc.com/seo-nova/. Video tutorials are provided detailing step by step instructions for implementation of the plug-in.

For more information about SEO Inc. call 877-736-0006, visit www.seoinc.com or visit SEO Inc. at booth #801 at SES San Jose in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

About Search Engine Optimization Inc.:

Search Engine Optimization Inc. is a professional search engine optimization firm specializing in achieving top search engine rankings for client’s websites with customized strategies tailored to the unique online business objectives of each client. SEO Inc. is an Inc. 5000 company that leverages more than 120 years of combined Internet marketing experience. SEO Inc.’s has developed and honed a suite of highly effective, proprietary optimization methodologies and technologies that have placed more than 700 leading corporations in the top rankings of world’s leading search engines.

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Contact:

Haven Brady
Havenb@seoinc.com

Whitehat SEO Tips for Bloggers

Matt Cutts video discussing Whitehat SEO Tips for bloggers. This Video is perfect for seo tips for bloggers, beginners and intermediate. 1 hour long of Matt Cutts explaining Whitehat SEO Tips for bloggers.

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Building Page Rank

Tips On Building Page Rank

So, why do you want a high page rank?What does a page rank do for you?

You want a high page rank because it gets you noticed in search engines, popularity, and around the net. Also as your rank goes up with your popularity, so does your hits a visitors. This has a greater possibility of happening when your page is ranked high within Google and other search engines. There is a ranking mechanism that ranges from P1 through to P10. Your goal is to be at P10. So, how do you get to one up into one of these spots? How can and what will give you a P10 ranking within the search community? There are many ways. You can do it by having text links to other pages. This put’s up your ranking, also when you are ranking for certain keywords, you want to use an anchor in your text links.

What is Anchor Text?

Anchor text is your basic href link with text in it. for example:
<a href=”http://www.seotipsandtricksforyou.com”>Seo Tips And Tricks</a>

Now your link text will come up as “Seo Tips And Tricks” .

Now when you link to a lot of pages, this will bring up your ranking but you must look into the quality of the pages you are linking to. So you want to have text links from your pages that go to pages already high in the Google ranking system. Stay away from link farms and spammy sites. Doing this will get you ranked higher.

Now this is a pretty long process, you should find some other ways to do this. You objective is to Build Page Rank higher. Here are some other ways to do so.

Blogging – If you are a blogger this is a good way. Link up with other Bloggers, do guest posts on other related blogs using Anchor Text and links in your articles.

Page content – So what is in your pages, how unique is your content? Do not use duplicate content for Google does not like this, do not steal other sites content either. Make your page interesting, to the mind and to the eye. If you site is unique other sites will come to you more often.

Social Networks – There has been a huge debate on this but Social Networking is great for a website. Build a page for your website, give information, add friends and reach out to people. Interact with others, don’t just spam or people will disown your site. Post links around in comments urging others to come to your site. Post when you have new content, try to get users active in discussion.

These are just a few ways that you can increase your ranking with. Focus on your content, make your content interesting that will keep readers around waiting for more. Get your readers into the discussion. Have a site that people want to link to, and you will achieve getting a higher ranking.

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Making your pages more accessible

How to make your pages more accessible for search engines

For search engines and people there are many ways to do this, so that humans and search engines and better find your pages. Here are a few tips:
-Make sure your pages have a title.
-Use proper meta tags for each page,
- make sure your file names are readable and not a bunch of numbers and or letter. leave special characters other than dashes and underscores out of it.
-Make sure your URL’s are search engine friendly.

Also be sure to check out all of our SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tips that help better optimize your website for optimization. This helps make your pages more retrievable within search engines.This way your page rank goes up and you will get more visitors as your site grows.

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