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Originally Posted by AVCash
great discussion! I don't really have much to add other than to read this if you are just getting started with blog optimization.. (taken from top rank blog. com)
Consider keywords when writing your blog post titles. Some blog software allows plugins that can suggest keywords. Otherwise, you can use Google Suggest or one of these free keyword suggestion tools: Digital Point, SEO Book or Google AdWords Keyword Tool. Keywords should NOT determine your content (unless it’s an AdSense blog).
Optimize the template. Make sure post titles appear in the title tag and append the title tag (hard code) with the most important phrase for your blog.
Example: ” Interview with Brett Tabke - Online Marketing Blog“
Online Marketing Blog is included on every blog post title tag automatically.
Also use the blog post title as the permalink. If you’re using keywords in the blog post title, then they will occur as anchor text in the permanent post link. While you’re at it, just make the post title a permalink.
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I'm currently using the post title as a permalink, and I'm making sure the post title contains keywords or the phrase that I'm targeting in that particular post.
I recently changed the TITLE format for each page. The default in WordPress uses the name of the blog >> post title or some variation thereof. I'm using the Optimal Title plugin that you can find here:
http://elasticdog.com/2004/09/optimal-title/
I am using the post title separated by a ·, and then the blog name at the end as a more effective means of a title. I wonder if down the road I'll just leave off the name of the blog all together in the title tag; but for now, I'll leave it be and see how much better this does over the default WordPress title.
If you want to embed video into your blog, this plugin makes it a little bit easier:
http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpres...deo-quicktags/
I hope that in 4.0 they add the functionality for MySpace videos. Their example shows it works for MySpace but on my blog, the MySpace button did not appear when writing a post.
If you want to see what people are searching for within your blog, here is a Search Meter plugin that will track all of your recent searches. It also tells you the number of results found. This is a great tool for monitoring your traffic's success in searching within your site. You may find they are looking for something that isn't there.
http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/...dpress-plugin/
The Google SiteMaps plug in seems to be working well. I get indexed MUCH faster now:
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/...rator-v2-final
AutoMeta: Automatically inserts a keyword meta tag into your post. This seems to help, but I must admit I did a number of changes while adding this feature, so I can't say exactly how much of my blog's success relies on this plugin alone.
http://boakes.org/autometa?v=0.8
Related Posts Plugin: I like this because it finds relevant posts and then puts links to them from the new post. My thought is that by adding more direct links to specific posts (permalinks), I should be helping those pages get indexed a tad faster.
http://wasabi.pbwiki.com/Related%20Entries
Don't forget you'll need to add something like this into your single.php file, presumabley towards the end of the post:
Code:
Related Posts:
<?php related_posts(); ?>
If anyone can recommend any other plugins that assist with SEO or anything else practical for a blog, please post it here. Thanks!