how optimize a wordpress blog for search engine

[amrish2338]

Hi,
I want to know that how can make a seo friendaly wordpress blog.
I also want to optimize some keywords for that.
I there any way to increse search engine ranking for a wordpress blog instantly?

[Snak3]

When you have wordpress you have the flexibility and freedom of using the various plugins available.
I'd recommend the following for Seo purposes :

All in One SEO Pack
cbnet Ping Optimizer
Google XML Sitemaps
SEO Super Comments
SEO Smart Links

[denharsh]

Originally Posted by amrish2338

Hi,
I want to know that how can make a seo friendaly wordpress blog.
I also want to optimize some keywords for that.
I there any way to increse search engine ranking for a wordpress blog instantly?

There are many ways but first one starts from submitting your blog sitemap to search engines..
Use Google XMl sitemap plugin to generate sitemap and submit it to major search engines..

Also update your WordPress ping list. Here you can find wordpress ping list
.
WordPress permalink plays major role in SEO, so make sure you optimize your permalink for search engine.. I prefer keeping it as postname permalink...
No category slug in permalink ...

Noindex your categories and tags...
use SEO smart link plugin to auto link your keyword to a post...
Generate Robots.txt and make it to not index useless part of your blog..

Here is my robots.txt content:

sitemap: http://www.shoutmeloud.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
# disallow all files in these directories
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /go/
Disallow: /archives/
disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /wp-*
Disallow: /author
Disallow: /comments/feed/

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Allow: /


User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /

Also use plugin like
SEO friendly image which will help you to get traffic from search engine..



Let me know if you have any questions...

[highseo]

You should write unique contents after choosing your keywords and update your blog daily, but some plugins are really useful for optimizing your blog. One of them is All in One SEO pack. I suggest you to install this free plugin and when you write quality contents and use this plugin, you optimized your website. And now its the time for making backlinks from relevant pages for your blog to improve your ranking on search engines.

[Hafsoh]

*Update your blog regularly with unique quality content
*Make your title tag unique for every web page with inclusion of your targeted keyword.
*The default permalink structure in WordPress is not that good. You can customize permalinks according to your preferences and for better search engine optimization.
*Use SEO plugins for WordPress such All in one SEO or Platinum SEO, SEO Super Comments, SEO Smart Links and Robots Meta etc

[flexorbits]

More a Blog changes, more it should get indexed. For my blogs, I use http://pingomatic.com/ to inform changes to my blogs.

Many a plugins talked about in this thread already are useful.

I had also see wordpress blogs are quickly indexed (for me indexing on google happened in a weeks time). I was surprised.

[GiffordBruno]

Firstly create your account on Wordpress and then create your blog but remember its Meta tags should be correct. Title should be keyword relevant and data must be unique.

[theentry]

Originally Posted by Snak3

When you have wordpress you have the flexibility and freedom of using the various plugins available.
I'd recommend the following for Seo purposes :

All in One SEO Pack
cbnet Ping Optimizer
Google XML Sitemaps
SEO Super Comments
SEO Smart Links

Or try the new seo plugin from yoast.com (however still in beta)