Wordpress is a free powerful content management blog system, it allows to skyrocket your business website with the right tools. Once you installed wordpress it is not enough to make your website visible on the web. We prepared some useful tips on search engine optimization for your wordpress blog. Before you read our article, please read google seo TOS carefully. Now you should verify your blog with google webmaster tools. Login webmaster tools, click on add site, enter your blog url. You will be asked to choose verification method. Use “verify by meta” method. Copy meta tag provided, login wordpress admin, appearance, editor, click on header.php and paste the meta code before </head> tag.

Wordpress articles and HTML optimization.

First of all find good web 2.0 template and install it on your wordpress blog. It is important and if your template has less errors, it will rank better with google search engine.

You just installed your wordpress content management system and inserted a first article into it. What happens to the html code ? After article insertion, your article gets it’s unique title, the name of an article. So , what’s about description and keywords for your article ? Title, description and keywords are three basic key components for your article to be ranked high in google, install seo tool to create keywords and description for each article inserted.

Human readible permalinks

Well, the idea of SEO is simple, you should create rellevant keywords cloud in every article that you create. Wordpress Permalinks configuration may help you in SEO ranking, go to your wordpress admin, click on settings, permalinks, select custom structure and insert this line %postname%.  Save, and you have now human readible permalinks, it creates very nice keywords cloud when you use same keywords in title, description and keywords.

Google XML sitemaps generator

Google xml sitemaps generator will create sitemap of your blog and will inform google on every post you add to your blog. Before you create your sitemap, make sure you created quality and unique content, download xml sitemap generator wordpress blugin, go to your wordpress admin panel, plugins, and activate this plugin. Once plugin activated, go to settings, click on sitemap generator, it will ask you to generate sitemap for the first time, click on create sitemap. Now go to google webmaster tools and add sitemap of your website. You will be asked for sitemap url, the sitemap url could be found in your blog’s root directory, and file named sitemap.xml.

Before adding your website link somewhere, check where traffic comes from, avoid submitting your links to websites that support warez and others that violating search engines rules.

If you have any questions , or SEO ideas, write in comments.