I know I have already made couple of big posts about how to optimize your wordpress for SEO and of course it involved usage some plugins which comes really handy to accomplish what we want. Today I am not going to give out any tutorials regarding wordpress seo. I am just going to point out what are the SEO benefits which wordpress comes with, without the usage of any plugins or addons or whatsoever.

1. Permalinks:

First thing that comes to my mind about wordpress in terms of search engine optimization is the flexibility it provides with respect to url structure. You can alter the structure of permalinks to your liking and add keywords you want to focus on for each and every post you make. You should know that search engines even look in to the url when ranking webpages in its index.

2. Simple But Effective Default Theme:

WordPress now comes with a really attractive default theme. This theme is not only flexible but it also loads pretty fast and codings in this theme is very clean and search engine friendly. You should know that latest search engine from Google does take site speed in to consideration. So using default theme can help you to rank high in search results now

3. WordPress codes Are Clean:

Stable releases of wordpress always has clean codes, although latest version of wordpress does have some issues with memory limit. As far as I know the people who are involved in coding wordpress really know what they are doing and they are pretty good at it. So how does it help in terms of SEO? well if codes are clean blog pages displayed by wordpress is also clean, also uses less server resources that means your pages loads fast and overall site speed increases. This will not only enhance user experience it also makes the job of search bots a lot easier.

4. Usage Of Tags:

With wordpress you get the ability to tag your posts, it not only gives you an additional navigational option but also lets search bots to find your internal pages and posts more easily. WordPress also lets you to post your tags in your homepage which eases the process further for search engine spiders.

5. Categories:

You also get the ability to categorize your posts in wordpress. Which means you can use keywords in your category names and also wordpress gives you an option to alter the url slugs of category names, so you can use multiple versions of your keywords. Which is a good thing.

6. Easily optimize Images:

With insert image function you can easily upload the images and also optimize the images easily by adding alt and title tags, wordpress provides you with a feature that will let you to not only add title for your images but also you can add captions for each images. Search engines loves pics with all these information embedded in to image url and use them to index it on its image results.

7. Make Pages:

You can post pages in wordpress, meaning you can make pages for important keywords you want to focus on and have it on your navigation, Makes it easy for search engines to find your pages and rank it. You can take the wordpress seo page which you can find in the navigation for this blog. Also check where I rank for the term in Google

8. Make A Static Homepage:

You can write a detailed page with all the keywords you want to focus on in your homepage and make it static instead of displaying your recent posts in the homepage which keeps changing always. This will really help you with your rankings.

9. Ability To Comment On Posts And Pages For Users:

I cannot count how many times people have found my blog posts through the comments which my readers left on the blog. Blog comments does bring you a good deal of traffic especially when your blog gets popular. Also search engines give importance to posts with more comments in it.

10. Pinging Option:

You can easily ping your posts to various pinging services easily with wordpress. All you have to do is fill in the ping form with all the urls you need.

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