hi guys I am new to wordpress (but have been designing HTML sites for 8 years) I am doing converting some of my sites to WORDPRESS format hoping the google will give them more love. (affiliate marketing) What would you say the basics are when building a wordpress site to get ranked??? I HAVE WORDPRESS SEO plugin, google analytics/xml plugin..and content is coming along. What about H1 tags etc like in traditional website building? Anything else i should get? or DO?
Have you installed wordpress SEO plugin, like All in One SEO, or platinum SEO? those will help adding more meta tags to post and pages..
I think that's all to it that you have to do. Try to check if the meta keywords and description on every pages is the most fitting for the content. Also off-site seo like link building is a essential part of a site's ranking.
Just install an SEO plug in like All In One SEO, fill in the fields and continue to add fresh content and SEO it just like any other site. For specific help we would have to see the site.
There are many plugins for wordpress, which can help you to optimizer your site and some of them are good for SEO. I think plugins like All in One SEO may give you help on SEO.
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bigbody, here are the descriptions: cforms - a form application so you can have people send you emails without having to share your email address Disqus - a commenting/discussion system that is WAY better than the one that wordpress has. Allows people to easily login to your comment system with facebook/twitter/yahoo. Very useful. Sexy Bookmarks - allows people to bookmark your pages, a very good looking plugin, much better than all the other bookmark plugins. YARPP - related post plugin. Shows related posts so that readers can find related content to the article they just read. hope that helps.