by james on November 30, 2008
There are many excellent posts on WordPress SEO. Plugins are one of the best ways of getting your WordPress SEO up to scratch and I will focus on the best plugins for SEO in this post. As I mentioned in my earlier post “Bristol SEO Experiment” I have used Joost de Valk’s article on WordPress SEO as a starting point for this site.
This has obviously worked, as I now rank at number two in Google for Bristol SEO, and I’m certain that I can target other keyword phrases, and not be hampered by my competition with Cole which forbids me from linking from other locations using appropriate anchor text.
Despite Joost’s excellent advice I have also gone my own way on a few things, as plugins have updated or I’ve seen new ones I like the look of, so following are seven plugins that everyone serious about SEO for WordPress should install.
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by james on August 12, 2008
Before I forget, part of the point of this blog is to see if I can get myself to rank for the search term Bristol SEO by following a few pretty basic rules on SEO and setting up a wordpress blog.
At present there are 866,000 entries for Bristol SEO in Google, 2,810,000 in Yahoo! and 463,000 in Live. I rank in none of them. I haven’t yet submitted the site to webmaster tools or site explorer, but intend on doing so before the week is out. I will also start to link up my disparate profiles around the net on linkedin, facebook and so on to this site using appropriate anchor text, and see if that makes a difference and add myself to a few directories and see what difference this makes to ranking.
Ideally I want to take a pretty scientific approach to this and see what factors have the biggest impact. That said I’m pretty sure I’ll get a bit carried away and just chuck a load of effort at it in the first place and forget to measure properly. At least I’m honest!
I am also using Joost de Valk’s excellent article on WordPress SEO to set this blog up in the first place in an SEO friendly way, and I’ve got to say I’ve been pretty impressed by the Thesis theme’s out of the box SEO capabilities – I’ve a minor niggle on H1 and H2 tags, but nothing that’s too serious, and I’m pretty sure I can work my way around it.
So we’ll see how I get on with ranking for Bristol SEO over the next few weeks and months and how well I manage to get on with WordPress as a CMS too.
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