Wordpress SEO: The Only Guide You Need

Last Update August 3rd, 2014 As many of you will know, I love WordPress. I use it on most of my affiliate sites which make me thousands of dollars per month and I also use it on my blogs, such as this one. I’m certainly not alone when it comes to utilising this CMS though — tens of millions of sites online are powered by the software. For all the great things there are to be said about WordPress, though, out-of-the-box SEO certainly isn’t one of its strong points. As I use the software so much and make a lot of my income thanks to search engine traffic, I have come to learn what works best in terms of optimising your WordPress setup. Before I share my tips for getting more search traffic to your blog, I want to state that the following recommendations should be used with a little bit of caution. Now that I have the “don’t sue me” disclaimer out of the way, we can get onto the good stuff. The Basics Title Tags To change your title tags, I recommend you install this awesome SEO plugin.

7 Ways to Improve Your Blog SEO with Inbound Links Are you looking for innovative ways to improve your search engine rankings? In an earlier post I talked about the need to fully optimize your website and blog posts for search engines. However, content optimization will only take you so far. For a website to really take off in the search engine rankings, it needs to generate incoming links from relevant and reputable websites. And you have little control of incoming links. To increase the likelihood of obtaining high-quality incoming links, here are seven things you can do: #1: Create Content Others Will Want to Share All search engine optimization (SEO) starts with content. Facebook, Twitter, Digg and other social media sites are driven by the desire to share. Don’t forget to make your content easy to share by including TweetMeme, Digg, Facebook or other buttons that are easy to find and use. #2: Distribute Online Press Releases Press releases are a great way to generate incoming links. When writing a press release, think like a reporter.

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How To Get 20 Non-Turkey Backlinks to Your Blog I am certainly no SEO guru but I do know that there is plenty of turkey SEO advice out there. As a blogger its's very difficult to know what and whom to trust. There seems to be an infite number of directories, listings and link exchanges that all promise a nice SEO juice boost to your blog or site, some free and some not so free. Having tested a couple of these over the last 12 months, I’ve come to the conclusion that they are not even worth the one minute of your time it takes to list yourself in a directory. Organic links are the best, and until you get these... The best links back to your site will probably come naturally or organically as they say. Until you do get these links, there are a few places which you can get free high ranking backlinks that are reputable sources. Sites that give high ranking backlinks for free These sites all allow you to create a profile, link this profile back to your site or blog and thus help your SEO rankings: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.