SEO For Your Blog

If you want to maximize your blog's traffic and obtain top search engine rankings, you need to optimize and tweak your blog so that it's prime and ready to position itself in the major search engines and generate consistent traffic based on your target audience.

It's relatively simple to do, even if you are a new blogger and once you have set up your SEO strategy, simple rinse and repeat for every other blog you create in the future.

Here's a quick start guide to optimizing your Wordpress based blog:

1) Optimize Your Page Titles
Each page on your blog should contain a relevant title, with your primary keywords used within the title and the content itself. You should also modify your main blog's title to include keywords relating to your niche.

2) Install a Site Map
You can download a free Wordpress plugin that will automatically create a site map for your website. A sitemap encourages search engine spiders to effectively crawl throughout your pages and sub pages, indexing every element of your website.
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/

3) Permalinks
Change your default permalinks so that they include keywords from your page titles, rather than numeric values. You can do this from within your Wordpress's admin panel.
The default permalink format is: -p=<postid>, and you should change this to: /%postname%/:

4) Other than optimizing your page titles with relevant keywords, you should also consider optimizing your categories by assigning descriptions to each, using your long tail and primary keyword phrases. You can do this by adding %%category_description%% in the Description area. Then, write a description for each post or page that features your main keywords.

5) Don't forget to optimize any images that you feature on your website as well by adding in IMG tags that include keywords describing the image (Click Here Now!"). You can also implement keywords using alt tag fields.

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To your success,