Okay, I've just bought an expensive domain and I'm about to put a sports membership site on it. I've already created the site and the members area backend etc. What I intend to do is install wordpress on this domain also, and hopefully use that to get backlinks to my domain by posting regular sports news, stories, competitions etc. Can anyone give me any tips, or anything I should or shouldnt be doing as I've never done this before. The only reason for installing wordpress is to build backlinks and give me an seo boost. Thanks
There's couple of things to take care when it comes to Wordpress (technically): 1) Make sure your permalinks are date and name based » http://www.yourdomain.com/2008/01/28/sample-post/ 2) You could consider installing XML sitemap generator. I have it, although I don't know if it's really any use 3) Make sure your header titles say something sensible 4) Make sure you use H1 for your blog post titles when viewing them on site (they are like that by default me thinks) That's for starters - hopefully this answers to what you asked
Thanks, green rep added. I'm assuming it would be a good idea to make sure I link to my main index page from every blog post?
Be Careful! You have an expensive domain and you are going to launch a new business online. I assume that you are not going to change your business model every time. The online business model is largely dependent upon SE's, any mistake will ruin your model. here are few tips: - At first use blog a valuable part of your site that attract unique readership. Organize your stuffs, add unique contents and it automatically goes beyond imagination. - Backlink means links from an expernal page/ domain. For SEO you need backlinks from other relevant domains/pages. The link from your blog will be treated as Internal Links (It has advantages) - If the contents of your blog is of high quality, it will virtually force other bloggers, media to write about your blog, your visitors will be referring you and SE's will simply love you. A blog can be a incredible tool if used wisely and you must think beyond SEO Boost.
Why? I'd agree with the name part, but I don't know why the date needs to be in there for SEO purposes. In fact, for evergreen content, one could argue against it. Personally, I like to do custom permalinks in this format: /%category%/%postname%/ I'd go ahead and install the Wordpress All in One SEO Pack too: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/ It has several nice features, the most important of which address duplicate content issues inherent with the basic Wordpress install. Regards, Jim