During the past few years blogging has become one of the most popular activities on the internet. Whether it’s for fun or for the purpose of making money-you need to know how to optimize your blog for the search engines.
Below are 6 advanced search engine optimization techniques that will dramatically boost your blog’s ranking capabilities.
Permalinks
By changing your permalink structure in the wordpress admin panel to %postname%, removing all the unnecessary characters, you’re “taking out the trash” while creating search engine friendly links rich filled with keywords.
All In One SEO Plugin
Incredibly useful plugin helps you easily optimize nearly every possible SEO aspect of your blog whether you’re a newbie or a pro wordpress user. Simply install and follow the instructions. However, beware not to mess things up. If you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s better to consult a specialist first.
Related Posts Plugin
Search engines will rank your blog higher if you have a better internal linking structure than other bloggers. To do it, simply install the related posts plugin and it will do the work for you.
Keyword Research
No matter how many plugins you’ll install-it all comes down to choosing the right keywords. It’s important to locate the high quality keywords. Check out this highly recommended resource on how to do keyword research.
Navigation
While Google Bots and Yahoo Spiders are no more than scripts, they are programmed to know how humans think. Therefore, when optimizing your blog for the search engines, it’s highly important to do it as if you’re optimizing for real humans. Thus, navigation becomes a crucial part of the equation. Make your blog easy to navigate and you’ll get better rankings.
Pinging
By default, your WordPress blog comes armed with a set list of pinging locations. Run a search in Google for expanded pinging lists and add the missing websites to your existing list in the options menu. This will give an advantage and get your blog ranked much faster.
Use these 6 search engine optimization secrets to optimize your blog, get higher rankings and get more visitors to your blog. Report back on your results in the comment section or share more seo tricks that I forgot to mention in this post.
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