With Blogs you have less control over the coding that is used. To rank blog top in search engine you should consider following points Optimize your theme markup Have static URLs for your posts. Permalinks is important as most SE’s won’t rank dynamic links. Link between posts having the same topic or subject in a single post, don’t create multiple posts on same topic you may face duplicate content issue. Then, be strict when it’s time to categorize your posts. Don’t worry about open a new category, if it’s necessary Post order if you can, don’t alternate topics, but make a post being semantically related with its previous, naturally following them. Make your content searchable Tag your posts When you have found an interesting subject for your post, try to write an article that exhausts the subject matter in a single post; don’t break up the article in multiple posts. If you have long text, break it with a "read more" link Most important is try to post new content regularly. If you are linking then link well instead of just “click hereâ€. For Post titles find a short phrase that is well-descriptive of your content, possibly not shorter than three words and not longer than ten Open comments, encourage visitors to comment your posts Track back other’s posts Once you’ve written your own, Comment others Meta tags and information for search engines Google Sitemap for Wordpress Use Ping services to spread word. Top Plugins All-in-One SEO Pack Ultimate Tag Warrior Related Entries SEO Title Tags Google Sitemap Generator Sitemap Generator Plugin Antisocial WP Backlinks Add Meta Tags WordPress SEO Master I would like to know your favorite Plugin. Please give your inputs on this topic will help others.
Not do-follow actually, that will only decrease the blog's authority. and UTW is not needed as wp 2.3 has an internal tagging system
Eliminate duplicate content from (or create unique content for) front page, archive and category. Actually I'm just starting to look at doing this. A couple ways. http://www.virtualmarketingblog.com/index.php/20070809/wordpress-duplicate-content/ http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/wordpress-duplicate-content-and-wrong-seo-plugins/
Cool list mate, here is what I do to get top rankings: Install these plug-ins to boost your wordpress blog and skyrocket your rankings: 4 Plug-ins that you Must Absolutely Install: In order of Importance: 1.SEO Title Tag It reverses tag order for SEO purposes. The default in wordpress is: Blog Name - Blog Post Title" . It will become: "Blog Post Title - Blog Name," . You will get better rankings because the keyword is placed before the blog title. Note: This plug-in is already a feature of my powerful Wordpress secret weapon. 2.Ultimate Tag Warrior Assign tags (keywords) to your post. You will get better rankings. This plug in is a MUST HAVE. 3.Google Sitemap Generator Create an XML sitemap for Google, Yahoo and MSN. And ping Google automatically when you add new content. Do you remember when I said that I don't have an xml sitemap for my sites? Actually, I have it on my blog. Note: This plug-in is already a feature of my powerful Wordpress secret weapon. 4.Related Posts Automatically add links to related posts at the end of each post. Excellent for interlinking your blog posts. 7 Plug-ins that you May Install: 1. AdSense Deluxe Easily add Google AdSense ads wherever you want: sidebars, beginning of the posts, end of the posts... Not only restriced to adsense, You can add your own banners or text links. 2. PingFix With wordpress pinging everytime you make a new post, and every time you edit a post, you can quickly become considered like a spammer... Fix this problem with PingFix! Only ping when you post for the first time. 3. Subscribe To Comments A little box will be added below your comment box to notify people who comment on your blog. Build a community! 4. Sociable Easily let readers add your blog to their preferred social bookmarking sites. 5. Tagalize It Quickly and easily tag technorati. All you have to do it insert one of the following around the text you want to be hyper-linked to the tag. 6. Popularity Contest Encourage visitors to read more and instantly see your most popular pages. 7. What Would Seth Godin Do? Boost your RSS feed subscribers. By default, new visitors to your blog will see a small box above each post (you can change the location of the box) containing the words You are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! After 3 visits the message disappears. You can customize this message. Cheers, Franck.