As you can tell, my blog is new, it’s still got it’s shine! I am no newcomer to blogging and experience has taught me that whatever way is best there’s usually a better way coming soon! So before I started I made a list of things I want to implement with the goal of making the most from a Wordpress blog.
- Select your theme with caution! Choose a theme that will enhance your writing, not one that makes the theme developer look good! Look for the following to help.
- Support your favorite theme writer and buy a professional template. Free themes are good but paid are better and you want the best for your blog don’t you?
- Two columns only, text on the left and navigation on the right. This increases the visibility of your text to a search engine. It maybe BS but I believe it’s better for the search engine to read your text before navigating away to another page.
- Check the titles use <h1> or <h2> for headings and <b>, <i> and <em> rather than <div class=”…”> tags which enables the search engines to locate important headings and emphasized information.
- Crisp clear text, not too much clutter to distract your visitors.
- Build your blog for search engines. Here’s a short list to help.
- Keywords in the title of each post
- Include keywords in title and alt tags
- If your Wordpress version doesn’t include the new tags features upgrade and start using them asap. tags work like keywords and increase both the usability and find-ability of your blog.
- Choose your plugins to enhance indexing and functionality. Wordpress allows you to extend your blog with snippets of code which are developed and often offered free by many professional developers. Here are three I use that I believe are a must have for any blog.
- All in one SEO Pack.
Download. Support. - Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap Generator.
Download. Support. - WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive.
Download. Support. - You can get a full list of plugins at http://wiki.wordpress.org/plugin
- All in one SEO Pack.
- Set your permalinks correctly. Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts.In the Admin select Options, Permalinks and then place /%category%/%post_id%/%postname%/ in the Custom section and save.This pattern provides the category and post ID followed by the title. Search spiders will pick this up and will use it as part of the selection criteria for your blog.
- Windows users note that this is unlikely to work, you may need to use something like ?%category%/%post_id%/%postname%/ instead.
Keeping the ID in the permalink helps clashes with other pages that might end up with the same name (which, after a few years blogging will inevitably happen).
For more information visit http://codex.wordpress.org/using_permalinks
- Reduce the number of posts displayed on the front page to one or two. This will make it easier for the search engines to figure out what your message is plus if you use Adsense it’ll be easier for it to select relevant ads.
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