WordPress SEO Tips

Basic tips for ranking better with your WordPress blog or site

Nowadays you can download many free WordPress themes. Some of them are already properly coded and few do need your attention. How can anyone do these changes and quickly rank higher?

This time I won’t write whole lot about it, however I’ll give you the examples so that you can do this fast and without any pain.

WordPress Post Titles

Post titles in WordPress are extremely important; just by changing them you’ll have more glory while going towards the top with your site.

In your wp-content/themes/{theme-name} locate and open single.php. Somewhere close to beginning of this file look for:

< h2 ><?php the_title(); ?>< /h2 >

Many WordPress designers have tendency to place H2 where H1 is needed.

If your theme is H1 already, leave it as it is, if not change it to:

< h1 ><?php the_title(); ?> < /h1 >

Now, on the same location open your page.php, check the <?php the_title(); ?> and if necessary to the same.

In case that you want to target your content first and I believe that everyone should, make sure that when you write a post, your H1 (The Title) is automatically followed by H2 (The Subtitle) and that should look like this:

< h1 >WordPress SEO< /h1>
< h2 >Search Engine Optimization for WordPress, free tips on how to rank better< /h2 >

Here I started with (WordPress SEO), which will be my title, as well as my (permalink) seoagent.org/wordpress-seo, immediately after that my post will have a brief information in H2, to give my visitors more info about this things they will be reading on that specific page. At the same time we are providing our friends at Google, Yahoo, Bing etc., with the keywords that are the most important to us, so when they visit your blog/site H1 and H2 are the very first thing they will see, since we are sending them the “message” what are the priorities to look for.

Since we just covered he headings on your posts and pages, let’s fast forward to the very first paragraph.
WordPress SEO is our title, Search Engine Optimization for WordPress, free tips on how to rank better will be the subtitle and your beginning of the post, article, tip or whatever is that you will be writing on should look similar to this:

< p >SEO ranking with your WordPress blog should be better if your site is properly optimized. Search Engine Optimization is only good if you pay attention to your website headings and as well as the content< /p >

See, there is nothing to it, just make sure that all three of the above have equal keyword density, never overdo and don’t spam your titles, subtitles or content.

The very last tip I would like to recommend is your sidebar (sidebar.php) titles are usually in H2, since we already used this for subtitles, you can change it to H3, or even H4 in case that you are using H3s’ in your content.

Let search engines target your posts, not what is behind the sidebar.

If you want to see the perfect example of what we were covering in this post, when you have time,  please check out http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html and take a look at Google’s source code, their headings are top-notch optimized. Yes, you will say that this is Google, they will rank great anyways, no that’s not my point at all.

If you have any questions, please ask away.

PS Don’t forget to match your H1 title with the title tag as well, also it’s important that your site description is relevant to your content as well, if you cannot think of anything, simply copy the first paragraph of your post and paste into meta description, however only if they make sense.

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