WordPress is the best blogging platform for everyone; if you manage it properly it will help you to spread your ideas. You have a blog you need to make most out of it, follow these simple tips to maximize blog rankings.
Make Sure You Don’t Block Blog Visibility
If you are a newbie you might not know that by default wordpress uses the option “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors”. You need to turn it off from settings > privacy settings page.
Allow Comments
Comments are the good way to add content to your blog posts. You might get more information and visitors engage in interesting comments as well.
Use Canonicalization
Make sure you are using canonical URL option, if you page is accessible from more than one location, search engines might get confused or you might have a duplicate content penalty.
Add No Follow to Links
Always use rel=”nofollow” to less important links, it will help you pass the link juice. Also use rel=”nofollow” on your comments because most of the spammers got attracted by do follow links.
Use Alt Attribute on Images
Always use alt tag on your images on the blogs related to your blog posts and topic. It will help you rank in image search, there is an option in wordpress in newer version to add alt text to images.
Install XML Sitemap Generator Plugin
Creating an XML sitemap will help search engines to read all your pages. It is a good idea to use a XML sitemap generator plugin on your blog.
Use Customized Permalinks
You can use custom permalinks to make the post look more attractive and shorten the whole URL.
Use All In One SEO Pack Plugin
The best SEO plugin for wordpress is All In One SEO Pack, it provides you with many options. You can create custom Title, description and keywords and you can also customize each post title, description, and keywords. It also allows you set each page title structure; it will help you customize your blog pages. All In One SEO Pack is the complete SEO tool for your blog. Turn on the following options “use noindex for categories” “use noindex for archives” use noindex for tags”, it will help you no getting penalty of duplicate content.
Choose Your Blog Topic
It is always a good idea if your blog has a topic or some particular niche, it will help your blog to be more SEO friendly. You can select the keyword rich domain to target your niche.
Make Blog Posts Wisely
When you are making a blog post always try to target keywords after doing some research. Use long tail keywords with descriptive titles rather than using a small title. You can add custom title and description to your blog posts as well.
Conclusion
These are the top wordpress SEO tips, if you like to add more to it please comment on the post. If you follow them right it will help you to gain good rankings in search engines.
Article by Ahmad Wali
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Good tips which can be easily implemented on a wordpress blog. Thanks for the insight.
Glad you like them
Thanks the author for article. The main thing do not forget about users, and continue in the same spirit.
The subject is fully clear but why does the text lack clarity? But in general your blog is great.
Hey Thanks,
Clearity means visibility? Is it difficult to read the text? is it the font?
Although my following comment may not fit within SEO directly, however, it does help with gaining links and higher ranking in google.
Try to guest post on blogs that have higher page ranks than your own. When you guest post, this is an excellent opportunity to gain a couple of links back to your own blog. This will increase page rank since a higher ranking site is now linking to you and will bring additional traffic.
Some nice tips out there. I would also suggest to NOT TO add fillers like “of, on , etc” etc. Just keep it to words.
Wordpress is the most used blog script and seo is as important as anything to generate income. This article is full of information and i will use this to optimize my site.
Great tips!
Thanks for sharing such resourceful information here.