Hi! First, sorry about my english language ... and my question: I'm working on my own blog system, aka. wordpress etc, and I wonder - asking you, what kind of "optimization" must I work on - titles, keywords, description, modrewrite, links, tags, ... what must I include in all subpages, what to link (rel=nofollow), and others stuff ... to get best PR, etc. I'm looking forward to hear some advices. Thanks! Greetings!
You can start with the basic on page optimization. Simple meta tags updates and updated contents. And make the link seo friendly.
Some search engines will not index your pages without a meta description. Search friendly URLs are a snap with WordPress. Pay attention to your article titles, these likely are used in the search friendly urls on WP. Don't forget that blogs tend to draw traffic from sources other than search engines (Like technorati.com).
The best choice, yet. Invert the title tag order : First the posts's title and after that Blog's title. Hack the code of Wordpress, and put the title bit in the description and keywords tags too. Alreayd there, and with such powerfull features. All the necessary nofollows come as standard with the Wordpress kit. No worries. Go to this page, and submit your feed/url to all those websites.