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SEO for WordPress – What Every Blogger Should Know. WordPress has to be my favorite CMS for carrying out search engine optimization within. It has a wealth of great plugins that can be used, URL structure is easily manipulated and the general structure of the CMS is extremely flexible enabling users with basic coding knowledge to easily make changes. Based on my past experience with carrying out SEO within WordPress, I will share some of my advice toward how you best go about it. First Things First, Get Yoast’s Plugin… As the heading suggests, I’m a big fan of Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin.

This little beauty, developed by Joost de Valk, will save you endless hours of coding and frustration by simplifying most of the SEO tasks that you will need to do. Not only that, it’s free! Make sure you’re running the latest version of WordPress and then download the plugin here. Site Architecture and Page Structure From an early stage you should start thinking about the architecture and structure of the pages on your website. Optimising Your Page Titles. How to SEO Audit Your WordPress Website in Minutes. SEO comes across as a very daunting task. But people are now consciously adding SEO good practices to their to-do and checklists.

Adding an SEO audit to such lists is a good idea as one should spend some time in understanding one’s current SEO status. For medium and large websites, its impossible to manually visit each page, post, image and link and so there are lots of tools that can help automate this process. Screaming Frog is one of the best SEO auditing tools. It is a light program that you can download and use locally on your PC. Performing an exhaustive SEO audit over your site is only a matter of minutes with Screaming Frog. After crawling your entire site, Screaming Frog returns with data that the search bots would find relevant. Essentially, Screaming Frog generates the spider view of your site. Some critical SEO parameters that Screaming Frog helps auditing are - ContentURLImagesTagsMeta Description (This doesn’t affect SEO directly. Content Images Things to look at – Tags Sitemaps. RSS Submit - AllScoop. Allscoop RSS Submit Pro instantly and automatically submits your RSS feeds and blogs to all of the major RSS feed directories on the Internet.

RSS feeds are the fastest growing way to promote your site. Submit your blog or other rss feed to directories will help to drive traffic to your site and blog. RSS Submit pro can site submit your site to all the major RSS directories in just a few minutes. This freeware RSS software works on all Windows platforms and is a snap to install. This software is no longer available. Latent Semantic Indexing. DoFollow Diver - The Premier DoFollow Blogs Search Engine. SEO PowerSuite software - features and editions. BuildMyRank.com – Link Building Service Featuring High Quality One-Way Backlinks. Article Marketing, Free Content & High Quality Backlinks.

[2,400+ SOLD] The ESSENTIAL Wordpress SEO Plugin... Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 1. What versions of Wordpress and PHP does Easy WP SEO require? Easy WP SEO requires Wordpress 2.8.4 or newer and PHP 5.0 or newer. 2. How do I upgrade to the Developer's License? IMPORTANT: You must invest in this WSO before you can invest in the Developer's License upgrade. After you log-in to your site's Wordpress Administrative Dashboard...

Step #1: Click the "Settings" link in the Easy WP SEO menu. Step #2: Click the "Upgrade Plugin" button (found at the bottom of the screen) Step #3: Click the "Upgrade" button and pay through Paypal. HURRY! Do you want to upgrade without logging into your Wordpress Dashboard? 3. Do you use HostGator as your web host? If you don't have HostGator, what happens when you type in a word like test or keyword as the primary keyword? If you still receive [X]'s in the suggestion area, even after you use a simple word like test or keyword, then your web host probably has "GET Requests" turned off for your account. 4. 5. 6.