WordPress SEO Tips

There so many WordPress SEO tips out there which are said to be the best and most effective ones. In my point of view, the best if we combine them. I do the same. Of course, some of these WordPress SEO  methods are more effective than the others, but I think “mixing” is always good. My aim is to give a brief description of  those WordPress SEO techniques and plugins which I use. I hope these WordPress SEO tips will help you to get better rank in search engines.

1. WordPress SEO Tip -  Use the right templates and themes

It is important what kind of  wp themes you use for you website. Not always the most beautiful themes are the best and they usually contains to many useless codes such as Java, Flash and others which are absolutely useless from the point of WordPress SEO. I think the best themes are clean not only for search engines, but for readers, too. Try to keep the menu on the right side of the page. Search engines read a website from the right down, center down then left down. Last but not least you need a theme with optimized heading and title tags.

You can create seo friendly wp themes with Artisteer, or find ready ones such as WPNow  Magazine Themes or Socrates Premium Wp theme.

2. WordPress SEO Tip – Keyword Optimize Your Posts and Pages

It is obvious, that your posts have to be optimized. You should use the right keywords in your posts and you should write longer posts as short ones are not so effective.

Here are some WordPress SEO methods for this:

• Use the keyword, phrases in H1, H2, H3 tags and of course in the title.
• Bold, underline and use italize your keywords.
• Use the keyword in the first and the last sentence.
• Use internal links to your other post or page
• Use NoFollow for the external links
• Give Alt tag with the keyword for your images
• Keep the density of your keywords between 2%-6% for maximum benefit.

The best WordPress SEO plugin for writing optimized posts is SEOPressor – a kind of intelligent wp plugin – which tells you how to optimize your posts.

3. WordPress SEO Tip – Use WP SEO Plugins to help yourself

There are so many WordPress SEO plugins which help you in search engine optimization such as meta tags, statistical ones etc. You simply go to the WP Plugins page and search for WordPress SEO Plugins. I suggest Headspace, All in One or Platinum SEO Pack for general WordPress SEO, but there hundreds for tweaking.

Personally, I also use SEOBooster Pro that automates your blog by tracking, analyzing and utilizing the incoming searches.

4. WordPress SEO Tip – Build backlinks

Crucial point for successful SEO is having backlinks. You can get backlinks by submitting your site to directories, commenting on other blogs, writing articles containing your link or you can use press release, too.

You can use Mass Article Creator for article writing and submitting and Fast Blog Finder for commenting on blogs.

5. WordPress SEO Tip – Use Social Bookmarking

I also use social bookmarking sites for SEO as by submitting my posts  to them I can get quality backlinks and visitors. You can submit your links for free and it can also give a small “push” for you WordPress SEO

A good tool for social bookmarking is BookmarkDeamon which helps you to submit your site faster and more effectively.

These are only the basic WordPress SEO methods I use as search engine optimization is a really complex thing.