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SEO For WordPress Bloggers
Nov 8th
Below are my top five SEO tips for WordPress bloggers.
1. Install an SEO plugin on your blog - such as the powerful All-in-One Seo or the newer more robust Platinum SEO. These two take care of alot of the basic onsite search engine optimization you need on your blog posts and pages. (this mostly applies to WordPress bloggers)
2. Get Backlinks – it doesn’t matter if your blog is a day old or 3 months old, you can never start too early to hunt down for link opportunities. Start with relevant directories.
3. Link To Yourself – Well not exactly. What I mean is make sure you regularly link to other articles, pages and blog posts you’ve written. This creates a spider web effect that search engines know and rely on.
4. Install a Sitemap – Sitemaps are literally maps to the content on your blog, and Google loves them. My favorite way to add a sitemap to my blogs is with the Dagon Design sitemap plugin. Fast, easy and free.
5. Use a Related Posts Plugin – this action produces similar results as installing a sitemap. It lets Google know of the content on your site and how it relates to the overall topic of your blog.
These are basic but powerful ideas, don’t underestimate any of these tips. If you haven’t yet added or practiced these SEO tips, now is a great time.
You’ll rise to the top in no time.
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Our next article will touch on the topic of: traffic generation.
PhotoDropper NEW WordPress Plugin
Feb 22nd
Do you use photos on every blog post? If so, then PhotoDropper, a new wordpress plugin, is going to be a big time saver for you.
Essentially with the wordpress plugin PhotoDropper, you are able to search and add FLICKR photos right from your WordPress dashboard. It searches (via keyword) within the Creative Commons licensed photos, the ones made available for shared use. Then with 1-click you are able to add the photo (complete with attribution link) to your blog post. See sample photo below, keyword = wordpress.
photo credit: TitanasPhotoDropper is extremely handy for those of us bloggers, who use photos in every blog post, and/ or who have several blogs to photo-rize. Simply download, activate as usual in your WordPress dashboard, and that’s pretty much it. The plugin is free and if you use photos alot, this is a must have blog tool for you.
Visit the photodropper plugin page here.
Missy.
