Wordpress SEO| How To Get Your Wordpress Blog To Rank Using Wordpress SEO
October 28, 2007 10:06 pm Search Engine Optimization: SEOIn continuing with my Wordpress SEO Tips, I am attempting to get some things straight in my head about the whole Wordpress/SEO Niche Site strategy. SEO for Wordpress involves doing the things to make wordpress SEO friendly. This includes using the right plugins, the right permalinks, the right posting strategy and the right content.
In a nustshell, it means overhauling the SEO gorilla that is wordpress. So as I work on my other projects, I am slowly taking notes of the things I need to do in order to master the wordpress strategy for niche site creation.
This is why I have made some slight changes to this blog. You won’t notice them… unless you are an SEO geek.
But I have changed the permalink structure, I have eliminated the “utopia” plugin because it screws up the post/domain titles badly and … I added the all in one SEO pack plugin to this very blog.
Seems wierd to me as I never really took this blog seriously, but it has evolved. Now my motivation besides giving out sage advice (heh) is to test out what Wordpress is really capable of… and I see it. I am kinda pissed that people passing themselves off as wordpress experts such as the developer of the utopia plugin which actually doesn’t help as much as it should… it screws up the urls.. which is bad for anchor text. So i am slowly discovering the right structure for SEO and how to make wordpress comply.
And in a way, this very post is kind of a test along those lines. I am attempting to rank this post and this post alone, for the highly competitive term “wordpress seo“. wordpress seo on google, has 15,500,000 competing websites. 15 freaking million! I’ll be lucky to rank on the first page, but with everything I’m doing with this post, I think I can and I think i will. The only issue I see s that lots of peole are optimizing for that term… including wordpress themselves lol.
But even with all this, I expect that this post will be close to the top of the ‘wordpress seo’ heap.
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Date: October 28, 2007 @ 11:36 pm
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Date: November 1, 2007 @ 8:37 am
For some reason, the rankings on google are all screwed up, “wordpres seo” suddenly has 466,000 sites showing… then a day later 1,000,000 showing.
This must be the “shuffling” people are always talking about…Maybe when it settles down this will show up but I do know its indexed, just not for that term.
Meanwhile, I discovered that this blog is ranked 231 on google for “internet marketing blog”, and 433 on Yahoo & nowhere to be found on MSN - yikes. lol.
This is without trying.
But it does prove that inbound links with the right anchor text are the most important ranking factor…
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Date: December 1, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
[…] I discovered this quiz on SEOmoz that might help explain some reasons why some of my posts didn’t rank as well as I thought they should. Sheesh… I thought I had this SEO thing down. I may have had too many characters in the title tag? especially that one for Wordpress SEO. It’s worth taking a look at. […]