The All in One SEO Plugin creates a spot on each post where you can enter meta tag data. This is very beneficial in terms of seo, and something you will really want to do for each post that you create (you can also go back and add this to past posts as well.)
I typically paste the title in that was being used in my post, and then enter the keywords to be variations of my targeted phrases.
You can see this applied to a post in video #15 below: Read the rest of this entry
We want to take every opportunity that we can to tell the search engines what our website is about, and another way to do that is through images. Everytime you display an image on your website, you should make use of the alt and title tags associated with images.
Whenever you add an image, WordPress asks you if you would like to enter tags for them automatically. However, if you haven’t been adding these tags all along, going back and filling them in can be quite a pain!
Fortunately the SEO Friendly Images plugin can help out with that. Once it is configured, it will go back and automatically add these tags to your past images (based on parameters you set). Pretty cool eh?
Watch this plugin set up in video #16 below:
Url canonization is a bit of a confusing topic, but I wanted to mention it as it use to be a big problem in the past with WordPress.
As long as you are using WordPress 2.3 or higher, canonization will not be a problem for you. All you need to do is upgrade.
I highly suggest you do that!
Please review Video #17 below for a brief explanation. Read the rest of this entry
As you write posts, it is a good idea to point out to your readers other posts that are similar. After all, if someone is reading a post on “dog training”, chances are they would be interested in hearing about other posts that were related. This can be a pain to do, especially as your blog grows in size.
Fortunately there is a plugin that can do this for you automatically, it is called the related posts plugin and can be found here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/
Once this plugin is installed, you can configure it to specify however many related posts you like. You also have some say on what is considered “related”. After you have made the proper configurations, the plugin gives you a line of code that you simply place into your template.
To See It In Action Watch Video #18 Below: