I am new to blogs I can remember years ago installing a wordpress blog from cpanel but didn't really do anything with it. Now I have a domain that I would like develop into a blog and I hear that wordpress is the best. Can someone tell me what are the best mods etc to use for seo on a wordpress blog? Also can someone point me to the best site for free themes & mods etc. Help appreciated. Thanks
Hi, Google Site Maps is helpful, in conjunction with Google's sitemap tool. You may also want to try out the Ad Sectioning plugin . Defining a good permalink also helps. I use /%category%/%postname%/ Rich
Themes - http://themes.wordpress.net/ SEO Plugins - the few I always use are: Meta descriptions: http://guff.szub.net/2005/09/01/head-meta-description/ Meta Keywords: http://vapourtrails.ca/wp-keywords (also gives technorati tags) Google Sitemap: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final Sidebar Widgets: http://automattic.com/code/widgets/ Feedburner Feed Redirection: http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin/ Social Bookmarks at the end of each post: http://push.cx/sociable Last three aren't strictly seo but they are very useful. There are heaps of extra plugins and widgets (sidebar addins) on the main wordpress site http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins Hope this helps - PM me if you have any problems with the install Regards Brian
Wow thanks for all the replys. I will get cracking now with my blog site. Thanks bwp58 those seo plugins look great
optimal_title.php puts the post title before the blog title.. in the, uhhhmmm... title google that i'm too lazy to grab a link.