SEO for WordPress

Some Facts:

1. There are 70 million blogs out there, what is your blog doing in order to be found.
2. Catching visitors attention is very important.
3. Visitors should come to your articles and posts and not the homepage
4. Ranking in Search engine relies heavily on quality and quantity of your blog site.
5. Natural links is the best way to be seen in the search engine.

Optimize Your Blog

The Wordpress themes are well structuted and beautifully designed, howver you can still do some optimization to further improve it for better search engine optimization

Title Tags

The title tag is the most important HTML-tag in terms of SEO.

Here are different versions you should use inside the <title> located in theme/header.php

Optimum ranking:
<?php if(is_home()) { echo 'Your blog name | Description; } else { wp_title('') ;} ?>

For branding purposes:
<?php if(is_home()) { echo 'Your company name | Short Description'; } else { echo 'Your company name:'; wp_title('') ;} ?>

You can also install the SEO Title tag plugin.

Heading

Heading is defined in HTML, H1 the largest and H6 the smallest. You need to use heading in your article. H1 should contain main title and should not occur more than once in a page. Design the css such that H1 should be most clearly visible in a page.

Site Map

Include a site map on your page. Through a Site Map your visitors go to navigate and find specific articles and posts on your blog. It is also a place for search engines to find links to all your pages on your blog.

Increase User Interaction

Increase the commenting field for longer user comments and better interaction. This also provides more unique content to your articles.

Install Subcribe to Comments Plugin.

Answer your Commentors questions and solve their problems.

If you revise an article based on a comment, do link and give credit to the commenter.

Link Building

Write content on a regular basis and get natural links.

Submit your blogs on social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Delicious. Install these plugins so that user should easily use these bookmarking sites.

Get attention regularly link bloggers and write about latest ongoings.