Many people assume that since the search engines love Wordpress, that their blog will automatically get high rankings in the SERPs. Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from the truth. WordPress can do many things, but there is absolutely no way it can know who your target market is and what keywords you want to rank for.
Unfortunately, for many news users of WordPress, it isn't common knowledge that this wonderful blogging software isn't very SEO friendly right out of the box. This is why almost every experienced WordPress user likes to tweak their settings and use various plugins. Many of these plugins can help to maximize your blog for the search engines. However, there are so many plugins available, it's hard to know which ones to use.
For all of my blogs, I always use three extremely important plugins that I feel work together to substantially increase my rankings.
Platinum SEO Pack techblissonline.com/platinum-seo-pack/
This is by far the best plugin I have ever come across. It allows you to optimize the post and page titles for the search engines, and will also generate search engine friendly meta tags automatically.
All this means is that now your post title goes before the name of your blog, which is very important when you are trying to rank well for a certain keyword or two.
SEO Friendly Images prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-friendly-images
The ALT tag is a very underutilized tactic for driving traffic to your site when you are using images. By using this great little plugin, you can properly optimize all of your image tags with your selected keywords.
Now all of the images on your blog can help drive more traffic to your blog. Simple and easy, right?
Sitemap Generator Plugin For WordPress dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/
Sitemaps ensure that your entire blog will be crawled properly by the search engine robots. If you don't have a sitemap, you are taking a huge risk, especially with the Google bots.
This plugin will generate a sitemap for your blog and gives you the option to exclude whatever you wish, including pages and categories. It will also allow you to order the items in whatever order you wish.
Each time I create a new blog and setup these plugins, it takes less than 30 minutes. You don't have to be very tech savvy to use them, since all three plugins are pretty straightforward and quite simple. Now all you need to do is add content and you will be ready to dominate the search engines!
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