WordPress is the most favourite platform of blogging on the internet. Nearly all bloggers who are making money blogging are using it. So if you want to take first place and make more money by blogging, you should learn how to optimize your blog. In this article, I will speak about how to optimize your WordPress blog in 7 ways.
1. Optimize your WordPress permalinks.
This is the first step when you creating a WordPress blog. The default permalink is not very good for Google and you can edit it easily. Clicking on the Settings->Permalinks menu in the WordPress dashboard and then use a custom setting such asyourdomainname.com/category/postname. This will mean that your blog post category and title will appear in the URL rather than a number.
2. Install the All in One SEO Pack (or a another similar plugin)
The plugin is suitable for beginners who want to optimize their WordPress blogs. I think it is the ideal plugin for Seo. The plugin grants you to add a custom title, Meta description and keyword tags for your home page and blog posts.
3. Optimize apiece blog post for a low competition long cut keyword phrase.
Do a litte keyword research before you make a blog post. Find a low amount of competition by visiting the Google AdWords keyword tool. Ideally this phrase will have just a few hundred monthly searches rather than a few thousand monthly searches. Use a different keyword phrase for apiece blog post that you make and place the keyword phrase in the blog post title and 2-3 times throughout the post.
4. Book mark apiece post by using Social Bookmarking services.
Submit your blog url to a social bookmarking service like Digg or Delicious. It will take additional traffic to your blog and give a backlink to your blog post.
5. Optimize the home page of your blog.
Generally, your homepage get more traffic than other pages in your blog. Optimizing your homepage can increase the number of visitors. Pick 1-2 keyword phrases for your home page using a keyword research tool such as the Google AdWords keyword tool and select one or two phrases that are related to your niche. Ideally these phrases should get a few thousand searches per month and the competition shouldn’t be too tough. Ensure that you include these keyword phrases are mentioned in the TITLE tag, Meta description and throughout the permanent content of your blog home page.
6. Install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.
Submitting sitemaps will help to ensure that Google or other search engines index all the posts and pages of your WordPress blog. You can use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to create a sitemap for your blog.
7. Add more links to your blog.
It is the ideal way to improve your ranking in the search engines. There are so many ways you can do this. For example, you can add links from other blogs, directory submission, and forum and so on.
This is the primary way for WordPress blog optimization. Try it! It will take more traffic to your blog and make that you can make more money by blogging.
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