How to Optimize your Blog’s Search Engine Ranking
ADVERTISEMENTSWordpress comes with several built in search engine optimization tools including .htaccess to create apparently static URLs called permalinks,blogrolling and pinging.
You can further optimize your blog by installing these four plugins.
- Google Sitemaps GeneratorThis generator will create a google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. Currently homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archives are supported. The priority of a post depends on its comments. More comments, higher priority! If you have external pages which don’t belong to your blog, you can also add them to the list. This plugin will automaically inform Google whenever the sitemap gets regenerated.
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Optimal TitleUse this plugin to optimize your post title and display meaningful search engine results and browser bookmark names. It also reduces the chance of title truncation when viewed in search engine result pages by placing your post title in the beginning of the
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Head Meta DescriptionThis plugin allows you to add dynamic meta description automatically by extracting the first few words in your words. So it’s important to place your most important keywords in the first paragraph so that they are picked by this plugin.
If you do not see your description tag, scroll down a bit because it’s possible that other tags may have pushed the
tag.tag lower down but still inside the - Add Meta Keyword TagThis plugin works similar like the Head Meta Description plugin except that it’s for the keyword tag. Add Meta Keyword Tag would output a default set of keywords, except on single posts. On single posts it would create a list of keywords based on the categories assigned to that post and any tags assigned to it. So you can simply pull the keywords from tagging plugins you already use such as Jerome’s Keywords and Bunny’s Technorati Tags.
Know any other WordPress Plugins that help in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of your blog? Please let me know through comments.
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Posted on May 4th, 2006 | Category: Blogging, SEO, WordPress |
Rose
May 24, 2006 at 3:15 am
Thanks for listing these plug-ins
johntp
May 24, 2006 at 6:51 am
Glad you found it useful![:-)](/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Maurizio
June 5, 2006 at 8:04 pm
You ask:
Know any other WordPress Plugins that help in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of your blog? Please let me know through comments.
I answer:
Yes, I know some others… they’re all described in the article-guide I’ve written about Optimize Wordpress for Search Engines.
I hope you appreciate!
Greetings,
Maurizio P.
SELaplana
June 20, 2006 at 10:20 am
okay, thanks for the list. I got the title plugin. All of them are installed on my blog except this title plugin.
Erica
October 8, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator by Aleister http://www.dagondesign.com/art.....wordpress/ is another excellent one.
I run this along with google sitemp generator. I link to the sitemap on my pages in the navigation so the search engines will crawl the link of my sitemape (Google as well as others) and I also use this as a 404 page so when people come to the site if there is an outdated link, they can view all the pages on the site instead of just a page saying its not found. This increases the chance someone will see something else they like as well as a search engine crawling links.