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Published on February 28th, 2012 | by Erkan

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10 Useful Tips To Optimize WordPress Blogs For Seach Engines

WordPress is getting more popular day by day. Everyday more webmasters switching to wordpress because of its seo capabilities. It is easier to get maximum traffic from search engines with that popular platform.But wordPress also requires some optimization job to get max traffic. For this purpose we made a list that every wordpress user should check out.

WordPress Helpful Tips

1. Use a sitemap generator plugin and generate xml sitemaps at least once a week! I recommend ”Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps”. You can download from here.
2. Use a Robot.txt file and disallow unneccessary pages like contact page.
3. Use rel=”nofollow” attribute in outgoing and less important links. This step would help you with not sharing your pagerank with sites that have lower page ranks. Here is an example;
4. Optimize your url’s and titles. Go to your wordpress dashboard. Then settings. Choose permalinks and do the same as you see in screenshot. With this step, search engine robots would find more useful data from your url structure.
   

   Permalink Settings

   5.  Use keywords,tags and meta descriptions. Dont be lazy and use tags as much as you can. But be careful. Do not use irrelevant tags.

   6. Use seo plugins.This plugins would make your life easier with wordpress. I recommend Headspace2 SEO.

   7. Use (h1) headings. And also if it is possible, use h2,h3 and h4 too.

   8. Use title and alt attributes in your image links. It is so important also. Because lots of people use image search function with google and bing.

   9. Use wordpress ping function to get max exposure with inbound links. Go to dashboard then  admin>settings>Writing:..At the bottom you will see ”Update Services”

   You can add more update services. Here are some;

   http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2http://1470.net/api/ping

   http://api.feedster.com/ping

   http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

   http://api.moreover.com/ping

   http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

   http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

   http://bblog.com/ping.php

   http://bitacoras.net/ping

   http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

   http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

   http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

   http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

   http://coreblog.org/ping/

   http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

   http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

   http://ping.amagle.com/

   http://ping.bitacoras.com

   http://ping.blo.gs/

   http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

   http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

   http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/

   http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc

   http://ping.feedburner.com

   http://ping.myblog.jp

   http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

   http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

   http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

   http://ping.weblogs.se/

   http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2

   http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/

   http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

   http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

   http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

   http://rpc.newsgator.com/

   http://rpc.pingomatic.com

   http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

   http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

   http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

   http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

   http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

   http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

   http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

   http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

   http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

   http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

   http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

   http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

   http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

   http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

   http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

   http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

   http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

   http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

   http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

   http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

   http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

   http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

   10.  When you will be away from internet, prepare posts before and make them post automatically later.Wordpress has this useful function to post articles anytime you want. This can be done here..

   

   Setting Post Time

   That is it for now. Feel free to comment and tell us your idea or may be your tips to optimize wordpress . Thank you for reading. Good luck with google:)

   Download wordpress and start your blog today

Tags: seo, seo tips, wordpress optimization, Wordpress seo

About the Author

Erkan Erkan is founder of toocool2betrue and themost10.com. He is also working as content manager at Cloudie Network Media Agency

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