Third step in SEO to promote a wordpress blog
On the 3rd step in promoting a wordpress blog we will set up and configure wordpress to behave good around search engines, keep the spam away and to analyze the traffic of your blog.
- Askimet will protect your blog from spam
- Askimet antispam plugin is already installed on wordpress and all you have to do is to activate it.
- After activating it you will have to insert a code called “API key“. The API key can be found on WordPress.com if you have an account login, if you don`t have one register in to get the key.
- All in one seo pack is a out of box plugin that makes your blog “more attractive” to search engines
- Some features:
- Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
- Generates META tags automatically
- Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
- For WordPress 2.7 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
- You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
- You can fine-tune everything
- Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
Download all in one seo pack from here.
- Statpress is first real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc.
- Speaks English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Norwegian, Dutch, Brazilian, Turkish, Swedish, Danish, Persian.
- Can automatically delete older records to allow the insertion of newer records when limited space is present.
Download statpress from here
Read MoreSecond step in SEO to promote a wordpress blog
The second step in promoting a wordpress blog is using FeedBurner services.
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.
More exactly by using FeedBurner services on your blog, visitors and readers can subscribe to your rss feeds by email.
Feedburner offers much more interesting tools to promote your articles.
To put is in simple terms, Feedburner is a feed “enhancer”. It takes your default wordpress feed, and adds more functionality to it without you having to modify it yourself.
If you’ve already had your blog up for some time, chances are your readers may have already subscribed to your default RSS feed. Since you’re using Feedburner, it’s a good idea to make sure everyone is reading the same RSS feed.
Once you’re set-up with Feedburner, you can activate all the cool functions, such as allowing your readers to subscribe via email, and also the Feedburner “Flares”.
Once you’ve activated the Flares, they will appear in your RSS feed.
There’s only one disadvantage of using Feedburner: you lose control of your RSS feed.
Imagine if you already have thousands of subscribers via Feedburner, and you decide to stop using it (or switch to a similar service) for whatever reason. You won’t be able to transfer those readers to your new service easily as your Feedburner version has already been published on the Internet on tons of different sites and sources.
That fact aside, using Feedburner will ultimately make your life a whole lot easier. To sign-up, just go to www.Feedburner.com.
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First step in SEO to promote a wordpress blog
This is one of the first SEO tutorials and promoting a blog using WordPress platform is quite simple.
- After a fresh install of wordpress, by default, WordPress gives you this dynamic URL for your post:
http://yourdomain.com/?p=SOME-ID-NUMBER.
- The best SEO permalink structure is to have your post appears with ‘category’ and the ‘post title’ in the url.
- An example of this kind of permalink structure you can observe on this article, the url address of this article is:
http://tutorialize.org/seo/first-step-in-seo-to-promote-a-wordpress-blog/
- Why is this the best SEO permalink structure compares to the other structures?
To simply put, this permalink structure allows you to have ‘more’ keyword loaded into the URL of your post. Since the category that you’ve placed your post under usually related to the post title (which hopefully is keyword-loaded itself), you will have the extra SEO benefit if other people use that permalink structure to link your post.
- How to change the permalink structure?
In order to change the default permalink structure, you need to go to “OPTIONS -> Permalinks” in your admin panel and paste this code into the BOX after “Custom Structure:”:
/%category%/%postname%/
Next, click the “Update Permalink Structure >>” button; if WordPress does NOT automatically update the permalink structure to for you–don’t worry–just do the following:
- If you don’t have a .htaccess file in your root directory (public_html/.htaccess) already, just ‘create a new file’ and name it .htaccess and place it in “public_html” directory or whatever directory you have your WordPress blog installed (e.g. public_html/blog/.htaccess, which is equivalent to yourdomain.com/blog/.htaccess).
- Copy and paste the code WordPress gives you after clicking on the “Update Permalink Structure >>” button into your .htaccess file. *Note: You need to click on the some option (e.g. ‘Edit’) of your .htaccess file to open up a window to paste your permalink code in the file.
The code is same as following if you are using WordPress 2.0 or higher:
- RewriteEngine On
- RewriteBase /
- RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
- RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
- RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
Just copy and paste that ‘mod-rewrite’ code into your .htaccess file, save it, and you are DONE!
Now, your old AND new post will automatically carry the category the post is assigned to, plus the title name of that post:
http://yourdomain.com/blog/category/post-title
The default ‘Post-Slug’ structure after the updated permalink, but if you want to change the name of the ‘post-title’ in the post’s URL, just go to ‘Post-Slug’ (located on the right-hand side of the “Write” page) and input/change to what name you want.
Fell free to comment this article if you have questions/problems.
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