In my Premium Series I’m taking a look at Premium WordPress plugins and WordPress themes that I personally use, either for myself and for others. All opinions are my own and not influenced by affiliate commissions or anyone connected to the product. WordPress software is already known for being highly search-friendly. The templates are structured… Continue Reading
Understanding and factoring in Search Engine Optimization when you’re posting articles can be a bit daunting. However, there are organizations out there that provide data to help which can help your search engine ranking. Every two years, SEOmoz survey 100 of the industry’s top SEO minds. In 2009, 72 SEOs participated in the data gathering… Continue Reading
First, Scribe SEO is a brilliant tool. It’s a premium (aka paid-for) WordPress plugin that will help with SEO for your blog posts. It attempts to make SEO copywriting much more simple than it is now, and while you still need to pay attention to creating good headlines and interesting content, it may help with… Continue Reading
There’s a new SEO plugin for WordPress called ScribeSEO by Brian Clark from Copyblogger. There are still a few bugs but looks like it could be brilliant and is already very useful. A free trial is available as the plugin is based on the number of times you use it, and at the moment you… Continue Reading
Apparently WordPress automatically takes care of ~90% of the mechanics of SEO. The video below, from San Francisco WordCamp ’09, is pretty long (46 minutes) but more interesting than an episode of CSI. Recommended viewing if you care about SEO on WordPress, fantastic stuff. “Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google showcases the… Continue Reading
To follow up from my previous post on Google SEO, the big G themselves have an excellent Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide that covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. From the Google Webmaster Central Blog: “What are some simple ways that I can improve my website’s performance in Google? There… Continue Reading
Straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team talks WordPress and SEO. Actually, it’s just the slides for now, no audio.
Quick WordPress SEO notes: Basics – One topic per post, be specific. “What is…”, Top ten posts, best of posts, “How to…” and so on. – Text in posts should contain keywords, but not keyword stuffing. Bold and italics help a little. Must be natural for the reader! – Write unique content that’s useful! WordPress… Continue Reading