WordPress SEO Tips You Can’t Ignore

wordpress logo 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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March 3, 2010 by Daniel under category

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39 Responses to “WordPress SEO Tips You Can’t Ignore”

MrShotBag on March 8th, 2010 11:31 am

I\’m just about starting to get my head around WordPress and I\’m grateful for the comprehensive, yet straight-forward information.

Cheers!
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Shane from Master Dayton Freelance Writing Blog on March 13th, 2010 6:37 pm

Great post. I’m definitely glad you covered the all in one SEO plug-in, since that little addition alone has allowed some of my niche sites to hit front page with only a few posts and a few basic backlinks. It’s still all about choosing the right keywords, but that being said, that plug-in is a HUGE part of SEO with WordPress
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cricket games on March 15th, 2010 2:09 am

well , all instruction is very useful, tips are specific. Thanks for this posts
Lynnette from Internet Marketing on March 15th, 2010 7:55 am

Thanks for some great suggestions, particularly the YARP plug in. I have been looking for this, but didn’t know the name.
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adelleda seo on March 16th, 2010 2:49 pm

This is a very useful blog, well done. I did a blog abou 15 WordPress SEO plugins a little while ago, but didn’t even think about the ping services.
Florida Holidays on April 2nd, 2010 5:19 am

WordPress is the chosen blogging platform for many, to release the true strength of WordPress, you must use to the fullest some of the features in the WordPress blog.The easy to use features are WordPress incorporates into your site help you get the most targeted traffic out of Google and other popular search engines.
Aymen.b on April 13th, 2010 2:54 pm

Wonderful informations, Just what i was looking for,straight up info yet easy to undrestand, Thanks again for your effort,and i will go back for more
SEO Expert Witness on April 16th, 2010 2:33 am

Search engines mainly use automated routines to rank websites; with WordPress you can optimize your sites to best suit these programs. This is far better than being desperate for the almighty search engines to throw traffic in your direction absent targeted instructions, which is what happens with your typical HTML site.
england flag on April 16th, 2010 1:02 pm

SEO ( search engine optimization) makes your website more visible on the internet which helps in capturing more global visitors & prospective clients.SEO Experts are required when you want to enhance your business by means of search engines optimization (SEO) services to achieve the top ranking in search engines.
epagini on April 16th, 2010 6:14 pm

Hey,
I think every blogger will find this list of tips very useful. you provide some very good resources here, thank you so much!

warm wishes,
epagini
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Mark Downson on April 17th, 2010 8:15 am

This is definitely a very good article regarding WP SEO tips.
One of the tips is that: Test your page load time and keep it under 3 secs

Most of this depends on your server and code. Its not easy, but if you can keep it as low as possible – just great !
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Engineering Collage on May 4th, 2010 10:59 am

Thanks for the list.Great article. Very straightforward and informative. You mentioned the SEO plug-in. There is also a Google XML Sitemaps plugin that I found that automatically updates the major search engines with your updated content. I just installed it, so I’ll see how it goes.
jack on May 4th, 2010 4:32 pm

This is definitely a very good article Just what i was looking for and the information you have given is very clean and easy to understand.It is very useful article for all the readers.Thanks for sharing this information.
Angela from Webdesign on May 5th, 2010 12:02 pm

Great article! For better page load times, I’d recommend optimizing the server the website is currently running on. Turn on GZIP, turn off etags and enable caching and expire methods!

This way, your WordPress blog will run lightning fast!
Daniel on May 6th, 2010 4:45 pm

@Angela, Thanks a lot for those tips. They are really helpful and since google looks more and more for fast loading sites to rank them high in their listings, a fast loading website becomes more and more important.
SantaBarbaraMarketer on May 6th, 2010 6:31 pm

This is a nice list. I highly suggest reading through each and every one of your articles.
SEO Forum Man on May 16th, 2010 2:14 pm

Great article. I definitely appreciate how easy wordpress makes SEO. I also agree that often people forget to use sitemaps to get their content quickly indexed. I always see these posts about people waiting for months to get into google when they should just create a sitemap and go!
chris from free seo software on May 17th, 2010 4:12 pm

Probably one of the most concise and useful articles on WordPress for SEO that I have seen in a long time. All the best – Chris.
leonardo from consultoria de qualidade on May 23rd, 2010 3:08 pm

this blog is great
Articles that are posted here are of great help
this article definitely has great tips, and thanks for sharing it with us
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Leonardo from SEO Freelancer on May 24th, 2010 2:27 pm

In addition to the very useful content posted to maximize each post on a wordpress blog, I did an experiment to see if it makes a difference with my traffic.

Bookmarking your posts to do-follow blogs and submitting the feed of that posts to feed sites is very effective. Try it and you’ll see what I mean, but of course with all that advise considered first as mentioned on the post.
Michelle Tukachinsky on May 25th, 2010 2:20 pm

Thanks for the tips. Those titles are sooo important regarding keywords. This cannot be understated. Thanks again
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jj from search engine optimization Jacksonville on May 25th, 2010 4:11 pm

Thanks for the tips…I’m partial to the WordPress All-in-One plugiin… it works well.And when you combine that with the ease of use… you’ve got a winning platform.
Samantha from San Luis Obispo Search Engine Optimization on June 8th, 2010 4:47 am

Great post. This is help me with the SEO services I provide for my clients. Thanks!
seo web service on June 15th, 2010 5:20 pm

I have been running this Adwords account for 4 years and since two months the amount of traffic from this account (2000+ keywords) has been steadily declining. The Quality Score and AVG position remain unchanged. I have been changing the keywords bids here and there but mostly bidding up.
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john from lcdsamsung on June 18th, 2010 6:54 pm

I still dont understand why people buy optimized wordpress seo templates,on page factors are not very important it is actually the backlinks.
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Daniel on June 18th, 2010 10:59 pm

@john. On page factors are still very important. Try to rank a site or page for middle competitive keywords without optimizing the site or page. You may be able to get some rankings if you’re building a lot of back links and as soon as you stop your site or page will drop.
john from lcdsamsung on June 19th, 2010 8:20 am

@Daniel.Did you ever try out any backlink packets like Angela’s and did you have any success with it?I still cant get them indexed and therefore they are worthless.
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Daniel on June 19th, 2010 4:11 pm

@john. No I never tried any of this backlink packets. I personally think they are used by to many people and so they have become a bit less successful or it’s harder to see any results from them. If you do this kind of back linking you need to social bookmark some of those profile links so that they get indexed by Google, otherwise they are worthless, just as you said.

I personally use article marketing and blog commenting as my link building strategy. With article marketing I mean not only article directories but also all the web 2.0 sites where you can submit articles to.
lowes home improvement on June 21st, 2010 3:38 am

It’s so refreshing to find articles like the ones you post on your site. Very informative reading. I will keep you bookmarked. Thanks!
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Steve on June 23rd, 2010 2:21 pm

Thank you for your ping list, I will try putting it in my all in one seo plugin, I hope it will have some effect in raising traffic.
Bob Jenson from Web Design New Zealand on June 29th, 2010 3:40 am

Thanks for the ping list, I had around half of those already but the news ones will help.
PS. I completely agree, pinging search engines when you do a new post is extremely important for Search Engine Optimization.
Whitney Segura on June 30th, 2010 2:48 am

This is a great example of SEO tips for dumbiess, good job!
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online ads on July 1st, 2010 9:40 am

A new race to optimize the wordpress blog has been started,Every blog owner want to increase traffic volume through white hat seo.Google site map definitely important for the search engine listing and get the information of pages on your blog.
Jerremy on July 1st, 2010 2:52 pm

I agree that the best way to get indexed by google is using a sitemap, but I don’t know if pings are still having any effect on it.
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abi from Wordpress Tutorial on July 3rd, 2010 3:23 pm

Limit excessive pinging in short time to 120 mins when using the maxblogpress ping optimizer. This works best for me.
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Marlin on July 5th, 2010 9:25 am

That is a a very amazing SEO lesson for WordPress. Unfortunately it does not come by default, in CMS. Thank you for your links.
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Virginia on July 6th, 2010 10:55 am

I like ping services due to the fact that they allow me to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that my blog has been updated.
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Francisco on July 8th, 2010 8:42 am

I’ve heard that WordPress pings one website called Ping-o-matic by default, which in turn pings others so there is no need in specifying extra ping services, is it true?
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Reina on July 9th, 2010 1:28 pm

So according to this theory using ping service will improve you appearance in top SERPs results and it will improve your page rank.
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