SEO is one of the most important aspects of your website. If you don’t do it, or don’t do it correctly, you will never be found on the internet.  The simple fact of the matter with so many websites on the internet you require to have the right indications in your website for a search engine to be able to categories you and put your data into their data back to enable them to come up with your website when the particular group of words are typed into their search section.

They have to be able to pull the information out in a matter of sections and present a useful relevant selection to the person doing the search. This requires you to have put the right work into your website and into the various other areas of the webs to be able to be found.

The search engines use various algorithms to determine your rank on their sites and these are all brought into work when you are found.

When you are on WordPress, one of the most important tools you can use is the All In One SEO Pack plug-in. This tool enables you to put in tags (very necessary). Tags are one of the main items that the search engines use to give relevance to your website.

Make sure you make the title of your post the thing the search engine picks up rather than the blog name. When you have the post name you need to put it into the home title section. And the word or phrase you want to get ranked on and then.

* Post Title: %post_title%
* Page Title: %page_title% / %blog_title%

This should be about all there, but then we need to put in some good Meta tag keywords even though Google now says they aren’t using these any more. It’s important to remember although Google dominates it is not the only search engine.

Your description you will need to do yourself as appropriate to the site. You can, however, use Headspace to install them in each post.

It is important to use your keyword in your title tag as well as the heading of your blog. It should also be part of your logo and should be used in all your anchor texts when you do posting on other sites and in your links there. When you are doing a post try to use your keyword in the opening and closing sentence of your post and try to get it into the main body a few times.

Make sure that you turn your ping back on so when others come and post and realize you have done, it they will return the favor.

Make sure that all the photos are well named with relevant keyword tags. These are picked up by Google as Alt documents and are these are created as alt tags by WordPress.

Make sure your internal linking is done properly and the tags of links are similar or the same. Use a good site mapper or make a page into an index map yourself.
Make sure your 404 page links back properly to the main body of your website. Often someone makes a mistake in a URL they post and as a result anyone following it finds themselves on the 404 page.

As everyone knows the ways to get ranked in search engines means you need to have your SEO on your website done correctly.

Failure to do this mean you end up not getting ranked or you fail to rise in the ranks of the engines because the spiders that are sent out from the search engines do not pick up the relevant information.
This can be tedious work if you have to do it manually and every bit of help you can get in this direction should really be utilized.

Every now and then, we get a boost to our battery of plug-ins and this has happened again. SEO Booster Pro has come on the market in a better shape and form. What SEO Booster Pro does is make a lot of that tedious manual work more automated for you. One of these things is tagging.

This is a plug-in for WordPress that tracks visitors coming to you from various search engines and automatically analyzes what keywords they used to find you and starts using that as one of your promotion key words. You must realize that Google with their famous Google slap can alter things with any changes they make to their algorithms, and you might have to return here for the updated version. This is one of the downfalls of any system that is reliant in any way on Google. Once the update is installed you should find your keywords once again return to their high position. Search Engine Page Results (SERP) are shown for the relevant top results for your incoming traffic, and it shows what keywords were used.

You can set this tool to show you what you want to analyze as far as data is concerned.

It’s a good idea to stay up to date with the SEO Booster Pro website by joining their RSS Feed so you can receive relevant updates.

Basically, what this product does is take over a lot of the search engine optimization for you.  Search engines judge your site taking in certain factors. These factors include things like how many back links you have and where they come from.  The higher ranked those back links are, the more credit you get. Another thing taken into account is your Page rank. Key words change on search engines all the time. It sounds amazing but new combinations of words are still being put into the likes of Google and Yahoo, which have never been used before. The use of this SEO tool is fine in that although it is a tool and does things faster than you could by hand, it is still on the same wave as a manual effort and won’t put Google’s back up in any ways. They change things all the time to keep using all guessing in any case.

Internal linking and tagging is important and by using the same tag on your own page about things that have a similar subject matter and are internally linked are all things that help you.

Once you have worked out all the kinks of your website and got it up and working its important to let the world know its there. To do this we need to have it listed on search engines. As Google owns the major proportion of search engine traffic with a whopping 83 percent we will concentrate on getting it on Google. Yahoo has a 3% plus rating with Bing coming a little way behind that. Those were the figures the last time I looked.

The main item is to get on to Google and there are a few ways you can do this.

In the older days like two years ago you could do a submission to Google and eventually you would be added. But if you want to get on quickly and most of us do what you really need is a few good back links. This is actually very simple to do if you know a few good websites with blogs or if you have any articles you can submit to one of the article ezines. Article ezines will usually allow you to put your URL in as a place to link to and get more info. These sites are favored by places like Google because they give good contents. Places like Newspapers, good magazines, TV, .edu sites and what are normally called Authority websites that have blogs and allow you to put your URL in, are excellent places to get you on Google in no time flat. Spiders crawl these sites for new information regularly and will immediately pick up any URL that isn’t listed with them and include it. Just remember to do your links slowly in a natural manner. Any site that suddenly has 100 links where there were none before will immediately go on a suspect list. Link building is hard work and if you manage to get 10 or 15 in a week you will be doing well and will be on Google.

Do not go to link farms. These farms which send out links left right and center will get you in the bad books very quickly. They sound good and might get you a few for a while but what goes up quickly comes down with a wallop.

Web directors are a good option. This will eventually make Google find you but it wont get you traffic. But then the name of this game is to get Google to find you. Articles and back links which come in to you are the best way as this puts you up in the search engine ranks.

If you can get 10 authority back links a week you will soon be on the top rungs of the Google slippery sliding ladder. If you have a good and funny video, which you can put on to YouTube with your link to your website you will soon be found. That you can Twitter about and laugh with your friends about and it will link you in a very short time. This is especially true if you can get a few others to link to the video too.

You can include your link on Twitter and on Facebook as well as any other forum or membership site you belong to.
Give yourself three or four days and then check if you are listed on Google yet.

Log in to the Google search and type in your domain name without the http or the www. You can type site: before it and see what comes up.
You should see your main page get listed. If you do you are on Google.

That’s the beginning of your work. Now keep getting links and grow higher on the search engine ranking.

How many times have you thought up the most brilliant domain name only to log on and find that someone else thought of it too? It can be terribly deflating especially when you find that whoever bought it is just sitting on it and waiting for someone to come along and buy it at an inflated price.
In the current day and age it’s not easy to think up a name that no one else has though of and put to use as yet. There are a number of things one has to take into consideration when choosing a domain name.

1. It needs to reflect what the website is about.
2. It has to spark interest.
3. It has to give the search engines a name that will be well searched.

With those things in mind one can really rack your brains to come up with the right combination that is short sweet and to the point.
Luckily there are several tools available to help us.

123 Finder

The very first tool we are going to look at is 123 Finder. Here you take a key word about your intend website and put it into their suggest search and it spits out available addresses of a similar sort. It is by no means complete and if there is a name which you think might be available put it in a search for registered domain site to make sure it is taken before being put of it. The shorter the domain name you find, the better it will be for you. Short names are more easily remembered. Use the filters to find better results.

Domain Name Soup

When looking for a domain name domain name soup does a combination mix up of things to look for. You can search for a three letter domain or a four letter one. This tells you what are both taken and available. You can search for any number of different combinations and extensions. In fact you can get lost in there trying out all sorts of different type. If you get totally lost hit the back button a few times to get back home.

Take a look at SaveSpell

Here you can see which have expired which are free and what extension they are. All of these items can be filtered to give you the closest data to your available name.

Scoratic

This site brings up various domain names which are nearing deletion date and gives you the opportunity to place them on back order at two different web domain sellers. It also gives you the opportunity of seeing the estimated value of the name.

Stuck Domain

A domain name is an important part of your arsenal for the search engines for optimization so it needs to reflect what the site is about.
This site searches for domains that are about to expire or have expired as well as any that you wish to look up.

Those are a few of the available tools for you to search out just the right domain name for your new site.

Search engine optimization is extremely important if you are to achieve recognition on the internet. Putting your website up and not being found because you are on page 1million 200 thousand is rather a wasted effort.
In order to be found you need to adhere to search engine rules which tend to change with the prevailing wind. One of the biggest problems is they don’t tell you the rules. You have to try to figure them out. Most people know about certain items but it’s the unknown ones that make you reach the top of the lists. This silly thing about it is the more people find you the higher you rise in the lists. It tends to be a catch twenty two situation unless you find someone in the know.

One of the well known facts is that Google loves WordPress. One if the reason’s is probably because it has a good solid background of being well designed.  The content management system is excellent and if used properly should give you an excellent website. The content of course is up to you. Although it was originally built as a means for blogging and sharing information it has extended itself right across the board.

Making it more search engine friendly is very important so we are going to take a look at a few things we can do.

Your titles

Change the order of title sequence to show the post title first.
By using the All in one SEO plug-in you will have the proper sequence and it will work site wide. You need to think out your title carefully to make sure it is search engine material. It needs to be topical and sort after and relevant to the post.

Meta Data tags are important

You can still input the meta tags by hand in the SEO plug-in and it is advisable to do so. This way you can get a more accurate and full description in the meta data and you really need to do this for each post.

The links to the pages on your site are important

By using descriptions in the links to your pages you get better rankings. It means the search engines find what they are looking for easier and so will you.  Should you be posting photographs on a page of New England. Call the page something like Photographs–New England. You can change these settings in your Permalink settings. Should you be altering an existing site it is a good idea to get the redirect plug-in so your web visitor doesn’t get lost in a 404.

Instead of cookies use Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs is an SEO program that searches out words linked to your post on your site. This way your visitors, as well as search engines, can find more info on the subject as well as find their way round the site by the links.

Use a sitemap

By using a Site map both the search engines and your visitors will find their way around your site with more ease. This makes for a more user friendly site and well as good SEO’ing. The site map is on line and free for up to 500 pages. In addition there is a downloadable plug-in for your WordPress blog
that creates sitemaps.

Photographs

All photographs need tags which describe the photo. A tag is the “seeing eye” for the search engine spider. Without the tag, the photograph is meaningless in SEO terms. There are tools which will help with images such as Smush.it. This tool allows you to lower the amount of the jpeg for optimized speed.

All the above should help you with your SEO of your blog

Top of the morning to you all, isn’t it a excellent day? I got an email yesterday to give me great news. My daughter and grand daughter are coming for a visit! Not a long one unfortunately. It’s only for a week. However, I really enjoy their visits. That little minx’s Megan can twist me around her little finger. Don’t tell her I said that, or I will have no peace. Her mother says I spoil her. Well maybe I do. However, she really is a light in my life. Not that I don’t love my daughter mind, and she knows it. However, that little charmer really can do no wrong in my eyes. We will see the mischief she can get up to in these few days. She always does. So I am really plugged into what she will be going to do. On that subject let us discuss if you have got the plug-ins that are really essential to your well being on WordPress.

1. Do you have the All in One?

WordPress has a very good SEO Plug-in which I recommend that you download and start using right away. This makes you ready for those little spiders that come along from the search engines. You want to be found don’t you? You need both found but to climb the rankings as fast as possible to make you appear on the front page when some places a search for the subject you were looking for. Statistics show that the first ranked site gets most of the clicks. And if you don’t appear on the first page instead of getting many visits you might get one to three million. I know there are millions of searches a day, but you want your pearls of wisdom to appear on someone’s screen.

2. Dynamic or Static?

You really need to turn your web pages static rather than letting them stay dynamic. So many more people will be able to real them and load them faster. For this you will need WordPress Super Cache plug-in.

3. Google Your Website

With the percentage of people who use Google as their search engine, (It was 83% overall when I last looked.) Google has taken control of the web. It would be foolish to dismiss this and not make your website Google happy. Give them a sitemap. They use this to search through your blog to pick up topics of interest and place them on the web. It is very important for your visibility on the internet to have those spiders crawl through, and you want the free access to lead from one page to the other and back again with easy. They also need to know when a new comment is made so they can return and check this for fresh content.

4. Are Your Comments, Spam?

You do not want to appear to be making comments that are spam. No sensible person would. This plug-in check to see if the comments you make to see if they appear as if they are spam. This will check through your comments and tell you the result.

5. Do You Keep A Copy?

Keeping a backup of your work is extremely important if you want to retain all your hard labour. Image if one morning you came along and discovered the site had been hacked, and all your hard labour was gone? It would take you hours to replace it if not days. It all disappeared with some mean person just to play games with you. We don’t want that, so we need to make backups.

Well, folks the garden is calling, so I will leave you to get busy downloading and setting those up, if you haven’t already. I will be back…..

Serious this morning aren’t we? Actually, if you do it right it can be fun. A lot of time I think there’s great hype about SEO and is just another way of certain people aiming to make money out of you but. There are some things you need to do right, or you will never be found by the search engines. They aren’t that difficult. They are just little tricks of the trade. Simply said, there are some things those little spiders that the search engines send out, pick up, and some things they don’t. For example, much as we love the visual of a photograph, unless we have tags added to that photograph telling the spider what it is, it’s a wasted space for the search engine.

Ok let’s look at what a WordPress theme and SEO need to work properly.

We are going to start off looking at the name of your Site.
If you have it on WordPress it’s easy to change in the Permalinks. There is a section there that allows you to change the name from your ID or Date to a name of your choosing to your name (the Author) or the kind of blog that it is (the category). You do this in the writeable .htaccess file. It’s a known fact that Google loves WordPress, so they come looking at WordPress to see new items.

Sitemapping(Generate a sitemap and submitting it to search engines)

A site map of your WordPress immediately helps you. Just like me Google hates wasting time so make it easy for them to find things. Make sure all the links actually work. Make use the WordPress plug in which is available. It’s called “Google XML Sitemaps”. This makes is very easy for you. What they have done is they have it ready, just as Google likes it, and whenever you make changes and update your site, it tells Google at the touch of a button. You can also do this through Google by joining up with the “Webmaster” program here.
This also gives you info, which can help with any problems that might show up on the site by giving you a lot of feedback.

WordPress to the SEO rescue. (The All-in-One SEO Plugin)

One of the most popular plug-in on WordPress, this takes all the hassles out of SEO on WordPress. What it does is rewrite your titles to give better SEO, and it puts in the right meta tags for your Blog by picking up words and making them part of the meta tagging. You will see that there is an option for it to rewrite titles. You will also see you can write a new title.
The simple fact of the matter is no matter what you do once you have done the basics is there only thing that really makes a good blog and that will enable you to get to the top of the ranks on Google is to have Unique, good, well written content on an interesting subject. Google likes different. When something outstanding comes into its sights, it will take note of it. Keep your blog updated constantly. Tag your photos. And write good articles with unique content. Know your subject and be good at it. Happy, Seo’ing.

There are so many WordPress themes available on the web that you can choose from. You only need to determine whether the WordPress theme that you choose looks good for your blog or not.

Footer and header scripts are the things that you have to include in your blog. It will be an additional benefits it the theme that you choose provides an option box where you can easily add these scripts. You need to choose a theme that looks great and attractive. You also need to make sure that the theme has all of the features that you need, and makes your blog look attractive.

These are some points that you need to consider when choosing a WordPress theme for your blog:

- User Friendliness

You need to find a user friendly WordPress theme to make sure that the readers can easily navigate through your blog.

- SEO Optimization

SEO is one of the most important things to consider when choosing a WordPress theme. There are many well designed blogs on the web that increases the number of on-site links to the homepage which is good for the SEO. Other things to consider are the text headings and tagline. Ultimate Blogging theme and Thesis are the best for SEO Friendly Themes.

- Social Sharing Plugins/Widgets:

Another thing to look for in a WordPress theme is the plugins/widget friendliness. You should choose a theme that allows integration and navigation of social sharing plugins and widgets easily. There are many WordPress themes with built in social media options that you can choose from.

- The Frequency of Update

Find a theme that is updated regularly. Regular updates will help to prevent the theme from breaking off when the important files are updated.

Recommendations from WpThemesPlugin

- Thesis

Thesis theme is one of the best WordPress themes that you can use. This premium theme is very SEO friendly, and designed to be a solid foundation for any kind of website

- Ultimate Blogging Theme

The Ultimate Blogging Theme is suitable for bloggers who want to focus more on the marketing of the blogs, rather than dealing with messy codes. The theme is Google friendly with the option to easily put the keywords in the title tag.

- Free Theme Layouts

I highly recommend the themes from  FreeThemeLayouts.com. The themes at FreeThemeLayouts are simple, well designed, and functional. There is also a forum where people can easily get help, tips, and support.

All of the things mentioned above are the things that you have to consider when you are trying to find the Best WordPress Theme for your blog.

The power of the blog should never be underestimated by web designers and web masters alike. These pages on a site can are multifunctional, and are both traffic pullers and retainers. They are also a good way of engaging with your readership, which gives your company or website a human face.

Of course, one of the factors that determines whether or not your blog succeeds is getting people to look at it in the first place. A lot has been written about this subject, but in my opinion only the basics have been covered. The aim of this article is to open your mind to different ways of pushing your blog, to attract traffic from unlikely quarters.

The basics

Social networking: Much has been written about spreading the word of your blog through this medium. There is a lot of justification in this claim, as one person recommending your site, carries a lot of weight with other potential blog readers. The following sites I have found to be the most useful for spreading the word.

Facebook – Not so much for telling your friends about your blog, though this always helps, but the power of Facebook advertising is nothing short of incredible. If the aim of your blog is to sell a product or service, then you should investigate advertising on Facebook rather than, in my opinion, Google.

When I advertised www.link-optimise.com simultaneously on Facebook and Google, Facebook pulled in an average of 80 hits per day, compared to 6 per day from the mighty G. The reason? Though your ad may appear as an impression with Google, it does not guarantee it is going to be seen by the public at large. To see the ad, a person may well have to click on the “more links” button, and then click “more”, to actually view the ad. Nobody does this unless they are trying to discover where exactly their ad is making an impression.

Facebook, on the other hand, puts an add right in front of your target demographics screen. They are just off to the right and good ad wording, in our case “Tired of being nowhere on search engines”, catches the eye. Though you could argue that an impression is wasted if it is not at the target audience, it is more wasted if it does not appear on screen at all. Considering an impression on Facebook has a target audience in the millions, can you really ask for a better place to put an ad?

You can also create a Facebook page for your blog, and if you are a regular reader, you will know you can link your WordPress blog to Facebook and vice versa.

Twitter. A very good site for telling your following that you have a blog and to draw attention to anything that is new on the blog, whether it be a new look, article, picture, or page. It is also good for letting people know there is a blog and it is yours. If you think of twitter, think of blog promotion. As with all social networking sites you can link them together, so linking twitter to your Facebook page for your blog, is highly recommended. That way updates on the blog page of Facebook, appear as tweets on twitter automatically.

Digg and Delicious are two other good social networking sites. Every time you upload something new on your blog, you can bring attention to it via Digg. A good choice of words and a good following on Digg, can generate readers of your articles which is what you want. If you are a clever user, you can write about a similar article to one that is already popular via Digg, and capture the same readership in the process.

Delicious is another good site which works in a similar way. The difference being that it brings attention to an entire page, rather than an article, picture, or film. This site is especially popular with designers who use it to showcase their work. Delicious is not limited to works of design however, and showcasing your articles on this site are always a winner.

Technorati. This is a great way not so much of spreading the word, but to generate links to your site, which is what Google analyses when working out where to put your blog following a search for your site on a search engine page. See back links below.

There are other social networking sites, that cater for a more specific kind of blog, or artistic works. My Space is perfect for musicians, as is blip.fm for music lovers. There are hundreds of social networking sites, and they all have their niche. Take time to explore and to enjoy them.

Use WordPress for you blog.

The advantages of WordPress as the platform for your blog has been showcased all over the web. Not only can it be customised very easily every hour of every day if you want to, it also has some great plugins for search engine optimization. I have found these plugins to be very good at generating that much needed search engine awareness, and to track my progress of my blog, as it battles for supremacy on the net.

Platinum SEO pack. Gets you noticed on Google and the like. Make sure you check the options.

Google analyicator. I have found this the most effective plugin for linking your blog to your Google analytics account.

XML sitemap plugin. This creates an XML sitemap of your blog, which is perfect for Google’s Webmaster Tools.

Another great advantage to WordPress is its ease of use. Not just for themes and plugins, but to upload content to it. This does not have to be the written word either. Photos, films, and sound files can all be easily placed on your blog, and then they are all there for the world to see. Clever use of the facilities offered by WordPress can make all the difference to how your blog appears to readers.

WordPress, can also be used to feature social networking buttons, so it is easy for readers to link to your other social networking sites, as well as subscribe to your RSS feed.

A quick note on search engine optimization and how it ties in with social networks and pushing your blog.

When you write an article or upload something to your blog, it is a good idea to use as many social networking sites as possible to spread the word an event has taken place on your blog. This can be a time consuming process, which is why it is important to link as many social networks together as possible.

What you write to promote your blog is very important. Search engines look for something called anchor text. This is text that is embedded in source code, that can be linked to similar words on your blog, or what you write to promote your blog. I have found that on twitter, if I want to draw attention to myself as a freelance writer, a phrase such as “New article on Teahon”, the anchor texts will be, “article, Teahon”. This is ok, but it has not linked freelance writer with myself or my article. If I write “New article from Teahon, freelance writer”, then the chances are it will create the following anchor text. “Article, Teahon, freelance writer.”

When choosing words to push an article try and use ones that link what you do, who you are, and what you want people to know, together. It does not have to be Shakespeare, just meaningful and precise.

Further ways to search engine optimize

If you know anything about search engine optimization, then you are undoubtedly aware of a concept called back linking. This is the main ingredient for search engine optimization, and is in essence, external links to your website from others. Think of this as a voting system, that search engines use to rate your blog in the wider world.

Digg creates a good back link to your site, as does technorati. So be sure to push your sites on these mediums. If you want to increase popularity further, then you can post on discussion forums and blogs that are similar in nature to your own. If you are flowing this route, be sure to post constructive contributions, and not just rubbish like “Great post, thanks”. It is unlikely to get past comment moderation software if you do, and quite rightly so in my opinion.

Another good way of promoting back links is to submit articles to article submission sites. Ensure there is a link to your site from the articles, and you will have a good, solid back link to your blog.

A controversial route is to submit your site to website directories. Google, is reported not to like these and ranks them little in the way of solid back linking to your website. I paid a company to put my site www.teahon.co.uk, on a hundred website directories, and found that Google did not rate any according to Webmaster Tools data. Having said that, it did generate a lot of direct traffic, so was it a complete waste of money?

Competitions.

These are a good way to generate interest in your blog, and does not mean you have to fork out a bundle of cash either, providing you box a little clever. Many websites will donate prizes to you providing you mention them in your blog. How far this has to go will have to be negotiated by you, but in general as they are putting up the prize, a whole section of the blog for the competition could be a good idea.

Content

It can not be overstated how important it is that your blog’s content engages with your readership. Stale content loses traffic and once it is lost, it is extremely hard to get it back. Ensure that your content, is relevant, accurate, and speaks to the reader or viewer. Try and promote debate with your articles without being obvious. The more people that join in the better. Remember, the content is what blogging is about. If this lets you down, no amount of promoting is going to keep people coming back for more.

There is no substitute for engaging, vibrant and interesting content. Content is King, everything else is nobles at court. Make sure you regularly update it to.

I have found these to be good ways to promote your blog, or website. They are all fairly easy to implement, and a little time, effort and careful choice of words, can really make your blog shine through from the crowd.

It is worth remembering that blogging is highly competitive in some areas, and only by promoting your blog in someway will you gain attention for it.

There are other ways to promote blogs, if you have some good ones, why not share them with us?

We all know that search engine optimization is the way to promote your work via your WordPress blog, so together with SEO plugins for your blog, and more SEO plugins for your blog, we now have more SEO plugins for your blog. So altogether you should now be able to attract lots of traffic, manipulate your blogs and pages to do just about anything that is remotely SEO related. That can’t be bad can it?

So here are some more plugins which should make your day.

SEO Tag Cloud Widget. This plugin allows your cloud widgets to be converted into HTML mark-up language. The advantage of this is that it makes them SEO friendly and therefore they can be indexed by search engines. In the past, cloud widgets were both loved and hated as without this plugin they are unreadable by search engine robots. Now this plugin is here, that has all changed. About time, quite frankly.

SEO title tags. This little plugin will enhance your title tags, and therefore make them more search engine friendly. They work by allowing you to place tags on your posts, pages, and any URL on your site. They effectively tell a search engine where to place your posts in regard to related searches for your blog. This takes the idea up one level from other plugins and WordPress itself.

Simple Tags. If you have problems choosing the best tags for your blogs, or in other words not a soul is reading it, then this could well be for you. This extremely popular plugin, makes suggestions for suitable tags, auto-completes as you type a tag, allows AJAX admin interface, and allows mass tag editing. Nifty!

Sitemap Generator. Search engines adore sitemaps, they are kind of like chocolate and beer to them. So by having a plugin that creates one for you can only be good. This one is superior to most of them as it has options to multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, permalink support, choices on what to display, and options to show number of comments.

SEO WordPress Plugin. This plugin keeps it in the WordPress family, as it does all the usual SEO tricks, but specifically aims all the optimization of links and tags at other WordPress blogs that are used as a content management system. It is worth to use this plugin as it helps a little bit more to spread the word of your genius, as well as the others that we have brought your attention too.

Search engine optimization should never have its effectiveness underestimated, and has become one of the biggest concepts in the web today. The reason for this is obviously to promote your website via search engines, and so many companies are now springing up to do exactly that. The key to SEO in a WordPress world though, is slightly different, and that is why these plugins together with other plugins we have brought your attention too, will be key to promoting your genius in the blogsphere.

WordPress developers are not blind to the needs of bloggers such as yourself to promote your blog, and to that end all these plugins have been created to be used for search engine optimizing your blog. There are many more plugins to this end though, so keep your eyes open as you never know what is coming round the corner.

Obviously, as we find new plugins and other resources that do the essential tasks that are WordPress related, we will endeavor to bring these to your attention, as know when it comes to resources and SEO, you can never have enough.

There are over a 120 million blogs out there in the blogsphere, so making your post stand out from the crowd is a bit of a challenge to say the least. This has been recognised by the WordPress community and addressed, as there are now plenty of plugins that search engine optimize your blog. These will make the posts pull through on related searches to your blog.

Below are some good SEO plugins for WordPress, so have fun, and try not to use them all at once. Not that I can stop you.

All in one SEO pack. Every blogger seems to love this plugin, as it does a little of everything SEO for your post. It helps you choose your post title, avoid duplicate content, and many other little tasks that make all the difference to pushing the blog up the Google page.

Automatic SEO links. This baby allows you to manipulate links for SEO use. You can choose a word or phrase for automatic linking, both internal and external, set anchor text, choose if it should be “nofollow” or not, and so on and so fourth. Also, you only have to do this for one word in a post, and its done. No spamming your posts with numerous links to the same thing is needed.

Google XML Sitemaps. This plugin is essential for SEO, as search engines are what it is all about. Ask, MSN and Yahoo are also supported.

Headspace2. By using this plugin, you can add meta data to your posts, and add specific JavaScript and CSS files to. The plugin will also suggest names for your tags among other things.

Meta Robots WordPress Plugin. This gives you greater SEO control over your blog by adding robot meta data to it. This gives you the capability to add “nofollows”, prevent indexing of search pages, disable author and date-based archives, and prevent indexing of your login page.

No follow case by case. This plugin give you greater control over comments by allowing you strip the “nofollow” command from comments and then reapply it to the ones you do not wish to support.

Platinum SEO plugin. This plugin comes packed with features, such as 301 redirects for permalink changes, avoid duplicate content, auto generation of meta tags, and post slug optimization, to name but a few.

Redirection. If you have ever had the problem that you want to move a page on your blog but are worried that it wont pull through on searches, then this plugin can help. It helps with 301 redirects, records a log of 404 page errors so you can correct them, and sets up an RSS feed for errors.

SEO blogroll. If you are worrying that sites you link to are benefiting by feeding off your page rank and this is bothering you, then you can use this plugin to stop it. You can separate sections for the groupings of links with an unlimited number in each, and you can give each of them the “nofollow” attribute. That will do it!

SEO for paged comments. This plugin in applies to more to users of version 2.7 as it tidies up duplicate content so it does not appear on each page. Pretty nifty when you think about it.

These SEO plugins should help you bring traffic and attention to your site. It is always good to share the love, and these should help you do exactly that. If you do not SEO your blog then you could be wasting your genius, and that would be very, very, sad.

Search engine Optimization or SEO is vital for the success of every blog or web site. Unique content on a well optimized blog leads to better exposure. The best thing about blogging on WordPress is that it is very easy to use, and highly customizable. This article will give you some tips for making WordPress SEO friendly.

Let’s start with some hard facts: there are 55 million blogs and you have to make yours stand out for you to have a chance. The main traffic should come inside the blog, and not be on the blog homepage. The first second of a visitor’s attention is crucial. Search engine rankings rely heavily upon the quality and quantity of links to your blog and the best way to get links is by recommendation from other bloggers and site owners.

Here are few tricks and tips for making your WordPress blog SEO friendly.

Usually WordPress themes are well designed and structured. However there are a number of things that should be taken into consideration for better optimization for search engines. These are:

• Using the best URLS: Enable the permalinks by going to Options -> Permalinks in the admin panel. Choose a simple and versatile URL because this URL should not change in the future even if the content of the blog changes. If your blog is old and if you think you have used the wrong format, do not change it now. Use the information for future blogs that you may create.

• Handling URL canonization: WordPress blogs have a problem in which four URLs are used for the same post and this should be fixed to prevent the intensity.

For the best title tag, install and use the SEO Title tag plug-in.

Headings are defined by HTML with H1 (largest) to H6 (smallest) which need to be used in articles.

Most of the link traffic comes to the homepage and then gets distributed to the links on the blog page. Therefore an efficient navigation structure is needed. For this, you should have the most important links on your home page so that they can be easily viewed. This can be done by using WordPress Category Post plug-in. Once installed, the Related Posts plug-in to link similar articles. You should not have too many external links on the home page of the blog, and if you want to have them it is best to have them on another separate page.

A site map helps search engines find links to all your pages on the blog. Moreover it helps visitors to navigate and find specific articles and posts. A common myth is: Google Sitemap helps in improving ranking. This is not true. Google Sitemap is great for submitting information.

• Various WordPress plug – in create meta tags. However they are of no use anymore. The meta keyword tags are hardly used nowadays in the calculation of the ranking by search engines.

• It is good practice to have the important content in the source code, as it will make a positive difference in the search engine ranking.

• The last tip for making your WordPress SEO friendly is by designing your blog or web page efficiently and effectively. Everyone has different and varied choices and tastes which would influence the design of their page. These tips are only generalized tips that could help in better search engine optimization.

The key to a good blog is keeping it simple.

The body text font should be clear and big.

Clear and easily visible headings and title pages are important.

Make sure the colors, patterns and schemes used on your blog do not steal the uniqueness of the content.

The text width should not be bigger than one and a half alphabet.

When visitors reach your blog the text should be seen right away. Make sure the visitor should not have to search to reach the content he is looking for.

If you are not making decent money with advertisements on the blog or web page, we strongly advise you to erase all adverts that you have on the blog, as these can be off putting to visitors.