WordPress Blog Tweaks

Friday, November 21, 2008, 15:03
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Here is the list of WordPress blog tweaks that everyone should do! Try implementing it and you’ll succeed in driving free traffic to blog or website or maintaining it.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tweaks

Optimized XML Sitemap. Search engines spider and index your site everyday. A sitemap makes it easier for content, new and old to be found on your site. Each time you update your sitemap, it notifies the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and etc.
Optimized title tags. Title tags play a key role in SEO, because they give exact evaluation of the main content on each article.
Optimized meta-tags. Meta tags identifies what the site is about and the search engines determine what content will appear in search results. Creating exact meta tags for search engines, makes your site search engine friendly.
Optimized URLs. The keywords found in the URL of a page are recognized by search engines and adds value to overall matching score. By automatically place keywords in the URL of every blog post increases its recognition. Also, the first keywords after your domain name, like http://workforprofit.net/get-free-traffic-to-blog/ are valued more by search engines than http://workforprofit.net/2008/11/21/get-free-traffic-to-blog/. Therefore, you should config your blog to use this custom structure ”/%postname%/” for permalinks.
Less Blog Posts per Page. Change your Reading Settings to have less blog posts per page. It creates more pages of content for your site and is extremely effective for SEO, but also as a monetization strategy.

Increase Blog Traffic Tweaks

Extend list of over 50 ping sites. In Writint Settings is a section of Update Services. Add more than 50 different ping servers. This will inform them every time you post new content. This SEO strategy is an extremely powerful way to get in search engine’s results.
Plugin for Social Media. There are many plugins that puts convenient buttons on each post to allow your readers to share the content of your site with popular social media sites such as Digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and many more. You know that only one article on any Social Media homepage will increase traffic to blog.