WordPress SEOThe Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your BlogI started writing my beginner's guide to WordPress SEO a while back, and have since done a load of posts on the subject, an article in the Search Marketing Standard, newsletters, and presentations. It's time to let all the info of all these different articles fall into one big piece: the final guide to WordPress SEO.As search, SEO, and the Wordpress platform evolve I will keep this article up to date with best practices.As I take quite a holistic view on SEO, this guide will cover quite a lot, here's the contents:The basic technical optimization: simplest stuff, highest rewards Permalinks Optimize your Titles for SEO Optimize your Descriptions Optimize the More text Image Optimization Template optimization Breadcrumbs Headings Clean up your code Aim for speed Rethink that Sidebar Advanced technical optimization: preventing duplicate content Noindex, follow archive pages Disable unnecessary archives Pagination Nofollowing unnecessary links Altering your blog's structure for high rankings Pages instead of posts New wine in an old bottle: use well ranking-posts to rank even better Linking to related posts Conversion optimization: get those readers to subscribe! Comment optimization: get those readers involved How should you get people to comment Bond with your commenters Keeping people in the conversation Off site blog SEO Follow your commenters Use Twitter Find related blogs, and work them Conclusion 1. Basic technical optimizationOut of the box, WordPress is a pretty well optimized system, and does a far better job at allowing every single page to be indexed than every other CMS I have used. But there's a few things you should do to make it a lot easier still to work with.
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