How To Set Up WordPress for Better SEO

WordPress is a great platform for blogging. It does not require much technical know how to install and use it. This and its versatility are the main reasons why WordPress has become so popular. Today we would discuss few tricks and tweaks that beginners can use for better functioning of WordPress. This would also give them higher search engine optimization effect.

Server
Install your WordPress on a Linux server.It may cost a bit more but would save you many headaches in future.

Enable Pinging

This is a feature I like in blogging platforms most. Every time you publish a post your blog send a a signal to the search engines to come take a look at your blog . This ensures that your content is being noticed by the search engines and is regularly updatd.Your content gets indexed much faster and get immediate ranking for the post.

Pinging can be enable from your WordPress administration area.

Permalinks

By default WordPress publishes a post like www.blog.yoursite.com/?p=13. However this does not give any idea about the post content or topic. By altering the permalink structure you make your URLs beautiful for your readers and search engines.

In your WordPress administration area, click Options and then click Permalinks. Now you would see various choices under heading “Common Options” choose “Custom” and in the custom Structure field add

/%category%/%postname%/.
This will make your URLs appear as www.yoursite.com/category/postname

Slugs

Post slugs allow you to insert a topic or keyword phrase into your URL. By default your post title becomes your post slug but you can alter that from post slug tab on right hand side column of your post writing area.

Changing your slugs to better keyword laden titles help in SEO.

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Comments

  1. Mike says:

    Thank you so much for the reminder on Slugs!

    This was one of those things I remember doing when WordPress first came out… don’t know why I quit using them.

    I’m glad I stopped by and read your post.

    Mikes last blog post..How To Sell To The Rich Part 2

  2. SEO Advice says:

    Good advice – would also suggest using All in one SEO pack plugin. It is really very useful for getting meta tags sorted.

    SEO Advices last blog post..Top 10 Free SEO Tools

  3. Sneha Gupta says:

    Hello Friends,
    It is really very useful for this article. I am very glad to your posting.
    Thanks & regards,
    :)

  4. Incredible post! I much appreciate it and looking forward to some new updates at same time.

  5. These tips help us to make a better round up in our work and make this aware… This hellps us in many ways….. Thank u for sharing…

  6. Thanks for suggestion about pinging importance, i never knew that before.

  7. I am glad you found the article useful.

  8. marvin says:

    how about keywords?
    .-= marvin´s last blog ..Avoid Rusty Soft Drinks =-.

  9. Great post. I’ve just published a new photography site and looking to get the whole site SEO done :-)

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