Mike Paetzold back again for day 2 of my visit here at New Breed Marketer as part of the Old Bald Guy’s Blog Tour.
This stop I am talking about WordPress and yesterday I covered…
Today we will cover 5 plugins that will make your WordPress blog more search engine friendly. Now there are lots of plugins you can choose from but these are the ones I have tested and use on all of my blogs. (And I have a few 
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All In One Bookmarking Button – It will place the social marker icon on the bottom of your posts and allow your visitors to easily bookmark your post at a number of sites of their choice. Any extra links you can get will help your rankings.
All In One SEO – This is a must have plugin as it allows you to add custom title tags to each post or will pick up your post title as the title tag instead of the main blog title as the title tag for each post as is the default in WordPress.
As your title tag is probably about 75% of your on page SEO this makes a huge difference in where you rank in the search engines.
Google XML Sitemap – Creates a compliant XML sitemap and pings Google and others (depending on your settings – Yahoo requires a signup and code) each time you post allowing the spiders to find all of your content.
Simple Tags – Allows you to customize your tags and create related posts which you can add to each post automatically based on your tags. This allows your visitor to easily find other content that is on topic making your site stickier.
WP Tags To Technorati – This plugin will make your tags compliant with Technorati the largest blog directory on line.
That gives you five ways to make your WordPress blog more search engine friendly. For more information on setting up your WordPress blog, making it SEO ready and generating traffic to it check out WordPress Made Easy. Everything you need in one place.
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Mike Paetzold has been online since 2000 and runs numerous blogs. Currently you can find out what he is up to at Mike Paetzold Recommends. You can also find out and keep current with WordPress at his blog WordPress Made Easy. |
November 24th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
So you use simple tags to id keywords within the posts, and it causes references to your other posts with the same tags to show up under your post. You know I thought it was just an alternative to the all in one post. Glad I caught this blog post.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I agree these plugins should definitely be on your blog if you are trying to get recognized by the search engines.
I use all five of them and will continue to until something better comes along.