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Here are a few SEO for WordPress blog tips to help your website ranking higher on major search engines. Note: These are basic tips far from what we offer here at Optimiationable.com

WordPress Optimization Tips

Ping Search Engine Optimization – Add a PingList to the writing section in your settings. This way everytime you blog a new post, the blogsphere is notified instantly. [Settings – Writing – Add Pinglist]

wordpress seo friendly urls – Change the WordPress SEO permalink settings so that your blog URL contains post tile words instead of blog post #’s [Settings – Permalinks – custom - /%postname%/]

Add cool social features from sites you are a member of so others can vote and share your posts. Such as Tweet This, Google Plus, Facebook Like, StumbleUpon, etc.

Internal Link Blog Posts – Whenever you reference anything you blogged about before, link to it using target keywords. Yet Another Related Post Plugin is a good way to automate this.

Google Keyword Suggestions – Use Google’s keyword stats to help you determine which keywords to mention within pages and posts.

Matt Cutts, Google Engineer on WordPress

 

WordPress Plugins

Here is a list of plugins that help with website performance, structure, design and more.

  • Add to Any Social Bookmarking
  • KSTats / Statpress
  • RSS Footer
  • Comment Redirect by Yoast
  • W3 Super Cache &/or WP Super Cache, or W3 Total Cache | W3 EDGE
  • Google Analyticator
  • Referrer Detector
  • Redirection

WordPress SEO Plugins

Here is a list of plugins made to either help you improve your SEO rankings or  track your SEO efforts. We are not saying these are the best WordPress SEO plugins, just some good suggestions to improve your basic WordPress SEO theme.

  • All in One SEO or Headspace2
  • SEO Smart Links
  • YARP
  • Google XML Sitemaps
  • HTML Sitemap Generator
  • My SEO Status
  • SEO Friendly & HTML Valid Subheadings

Link Building for Blogs

  • Submit Blog to Blog Directories
  • Submit RSS Feed to RSS Directories
  • Add Blog or Blog Feed to Social Network Profiles

WordPress Themes SEO

Here are a few websites we recommend for WordPress themes.

  • Elegant Themes
  • Optimize Press