Maybe you have found it difficult to bring in the kind of traffic you want to your WordPress site. If this is the case it is time for you to look into some serious search engine optimization using easily mastered WordPress methods. A lot of people have started using WordPress and consider it to be the leader in the field of blogging platforms. Are you wondering why? Well, it’s mostly due to its ease of use in addition to the tons of benefits it packs such as search engine optimization. However, prior to optimizing your WordPress site, it’s important that you know the dynamics involved in the optimization. If you can manage to properly use the WordPress settings, then you can expect to get an upper edge than your competition when driving visitors. Throughout this post, I will show you how you can get the most from your site.

The headings you choose for your WordPress blog are very important if you want to rank near the top of the search engines. Your post title must contain all your target keywords, as search engines rely on such relevant keywords in rankings sites. Not only should those keywords be in the title, they should be used throughout your post too. Limiting the usage of each title to one time only will help to ensure that your ranking strategy is clearly communicated to the search engines. It’s also important to use search engine optimized tags such as the title tag, meta tag description and meta tag keywords. A great plugin which makes the use of those tags very easy, is the All In One Seo plugin.

Alternatively, it is a good idea to keep relevant keywords listed nearby for application in creating posting titles. Not only intended to convince the search engine, a title should appeal logically to your reader as well. You need to draw the reader in with the title. Titles are not meant to be lengthy, but instead concise and precise and easily intelligible for the reader. Your site’s content is crucial for achieving high ranking in the search engines, so it not only has to be high quality; it has to be relevant in every way.

You want to get indexed by Google? The best way to guarantee that is to have a sitemap. Your indexing process will be able go much more quickly if you choose to utilize a plug-in for generating your Google Sitemap listing. It basically helps Google discover all the pages on your site.But you don’t need to create a sitemap yourself, you can use a plugin for that. Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress is the plugin I use and recommend you use it within your WordPress blog too.

Also, you’ll want to make sure when you decide to post something new to your blog you’ll remember to ping it to other websites. When your post gets linked back by other bloggers or webmasters it enables you to have backlinks that will get you some focused exposure. You need to ping every time you post. But again, you don’t need to do that manually. WordPress is doing it for you. Login to your WordPress admin area and under Settings click on Writing. At the bottom of this page you’ll find a section called “Update Services”. Copy and paste the following list of ping services into that field and WordPress will ping those services every time you publish a new post.

Here’s the list of ping services:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://1470.net/api/ping

http://api.feedster.com/ping.php

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://bitacoras.net/ping/

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/

http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc

http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.weblogs.se/

http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc

http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.britblog.com

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.wpkeys.com

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx

http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

If you publish several posts per day, I would recommend you’re using a plugin, which will optimize the pinging. Because it can happen, that your blog will get banned from those ping services if your WordPress blog does send many pings per day. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer is great plugin which will help not getting banned.

Including related posts when you add content to your site is another great tip for SEO purposes. There are a number of plugins that make this easy work, and they will automatically insert links to related posts. You can easily decide the amount of related posts you’ll want to show, and that will also give the search engines a much simpler way to connect to your older posts. The plugin I use for that is the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. It does a great job and you have many customization options.

Overall, WordPress provides you with an excellent platform for your website’s SEO. Be sure to take advantage of everything WordPress offers in order to achieve the maximum results!

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