All in One SEO for WordPress is a powerful plugin that will quickly make your WordPress Websites’ SEO (search engine optimization) rock solid. Here’s how you can begin to setup All in One SEO:
Download, upload and install the All In One SEO pack.
Go to Settings > All in One SEO
Enter your settings
The default settings that come with the installation are pretty solid, but if you want to add some better <title>’s for clarity and a better user experience you can. Click on any of the form labels to get a dropdown of the accepted All in One SEO tags / variables.
For kevinleary.net I’ve used the following settings:
Some people may have noticed that the frequency of my articles has died down a bit over the past month or so. I’ve been adding posts at a new location now for work.
Many of the topics are the same, if your interested in checking it out head on over to Fresh Tilled Soil: Web Resources and take a look.
I’ll continue to post on kevinleary.net as well, but not as often. I’d say that I plan to average 2-3 new posts per month.
Written by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) the song describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site.
If you’ve just started to use Google Analytics and aren’t sure which reports to look at, this video provides a helpful 1st-time analysis walkthrough. You’ll learn how to interpret what you see in these key reports and what actions you should take as a result.
Any blog owner has an interest in search engine optimization / marketing whether they know it or not. For whatever reasons, you have chosen to setup one of the best traffic driving forces on the web today. I’ve been working on the web with Wordpress for over 5 years now, and I’ve tried many different plugins to improve my traffic ratings. Here I’ll discuss some of the tools I use to successfully drive traffic to my blog.
#1: HeadSpace for title tag management
HeadSpace is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to create dynamic title tags based on page content. HeadSpace also allows you to create special scenarios for certain types of pages, such as a 404 page or individual post pages. HeadSpace has a full GUI interface that is easy to use and easy to setup. It’s no secret that rich title tags will improve your search engine ranking.
HeadSpace also has an auto-tagging feature that will plugin to the Yahoo! Tagging API to auto-generate / suggest relevant tags based on your post content.
#2: Make use of update services
One of the best parts about using Wordpress is that it has the ability to automatically contact web services and alert them when new content is available. I’ve optimized my blog by extended the defauly list to include many popular update services. The services I list under “Settings > Writing” include:
