12 Easy Wordpress SEO Tips Anyone Can Use

As a blogging tool and platform (and as a CMS), Wordpress is one of the best types of open-sourced programs on the internet today. By default, Wordpress is very search engine friendly in its setup, but for a webmaster to make it more friendly to their vistors, they need to do some basic type of editing in their code and add plugins because by doing this, it will make their Wordpress site more user friendly and make the work within the website easier to manage.

In essence, it will make the overall design of the website better and while there are many wordpress SEO tips on the web, below are for the beginning webmaster. In this article, we’ll discuss twelve easy wordpress seo tips, a new webmaster can use in other to make their website more search engine friendly.

Wordpress SEO Tips #1: Have fewer images within your wordpress page theme. The friendlier your theme within your logo, bullets, and banner, the easier it is on the search engine. A good way to do this is to reduce code size and bytes.

Wordpress SEO Tips #2: Peramlinks will really help a website to be search engine friendly. A webmaster can customize their peramlinks with “Custom Structure”.

Wordpress SEO Tip #3: Install the “All-In-SEO” Plugin within your wordpress account. This will help edit and activate your visitor’s focus.

Tip #4: Add ALT Attribute for any banner or logo your wordpress account may have. However, make sure it is unique because many websites use this technique as well. The “Custom Header” Plugin is extremely useful here.

Tip #5: Create an .htaccess file. Make sure it is enabled in your server and uploaded in the root. A code to use is:

RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Tip #6: Use Popular tags. This one of the most important tip of the wordpress seo tips because this helps show visitors and most search engines the importance of your blog posts and subjects.

Tip #7: Install the “Recent Post” Plugin in and make sure it is activated because this plugin will allow your visitors to retrieve the most recent posts on your wordpress site.

Tip #8: Add a sitemap.xml file because Yahoo and Google ‘spiders’ will come to your URL regularly if you do.

Tip #9: Add “Google Sitemaps” to your wordpress plugin folder. With will help with the root server and will help the webmaster add new posts with xml files being updated automatically.

Tip #10: Add Google Custom Search to your wordpress blog.

Tip #11: Add Google Analytics.

Tip #12: Register this blog at Feedburner and add any post to the RSS feed. Or Alternatively, can create an option in your wordpress site so that readers can subscribe to your future posts. By doing this, it will ensure than each future post will get some amount of traffic.

In conclusion, while Wordpress is a useful tool, it does need a few changes here and there in order for it to work well. However, if a webmaster uses these Wordpress seo tips, they will see results.

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thank you for the tips, but can you explain tips #4 and #5 )
i already did some of your tips thannks!

 

hi

#4 is the ALT tags that you put with any picture you have in that blog which enables you to rank in picture search engines such as Google and others. That is a really good practise since you also get a good number of visitors from that. You can also use it for your wesbite, I used it for my site get-free-web-traffic.com and I get first ranking in the picture search engines for my main keyword.

#5 is just a code for the server that you write in a .htaccess file and upload it. It is just a code that helps the search engines.

 

thanks for these wonderful tips, Im learning a lot from this forum

 

the best wordpress tip for seo: go get the wordpress theme: thesis. it ROCKS!

 

I second that BrianJump. Thesis has built-in SEO features.

 

Nice wordpress seo advice with good plugin.

Alt Tag for the picture is very good tip

thanks

 

Hello Friend,

Thanks for sharing these tips , i will follow your best tips.

 

Great tips. Really useful, thanks!

 

we should make it as much user friendly as we can. it is best way to generate traffic. Google Analytics is the best...

 

Nice looking out!

 

SEO Platinum is a good plugin for regular business type websites

 

Good tips. Thanks. Check out the new SEO plugin, that just came out. SEOPressor. Excellent additon to All in One SEO.
SEOPressor is on-page optimization done right, and a lot on autopilot. http://www.seopressorplugin.com has a detailed video review and demonstration. Link to plugin sales page is in my signature.

 

great tips

 

Nice wonderful tips for wordpress themes.

 

Add a google Analytics is a SEO method for wordpress?

 

You should explain the concept of permalinks, because many don't know what that word is, they hear it all the time and they don't understand (you'd be surprised).

Same with words like "trackback" etc, that are very specific words used in blogging.

 

Thanks for the Share!!

 

Of course it is, if you mean wp.ORG (doesn't work in wp.COM). You want to keep track on your visitors, what they read, when and from where. If you know what works or not, you can focus on that which works and you will save a lot of time and effort (if you have any kind of goal with your blogging, that is). It's just the same as with any other analytical tool.

 

thank you for the tips