Whats the best way to optimise a wordpress website for SEO?
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i was wondering whats the best way to optimise a wordpress website for SEO?
Any advice or tools would be greatly appreciated, currently the site is not very well optimised and is very new.
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Hi
I was planning to carry out all the normal processes of SEO to the site such as KW research, on-page content, header titles, competitor analyses, off page factors etc,
I am just concerned by using the Wordpress admin CMS that it is encapsulating the normal seo elements such as page title, description, page names- friendly urls and was looking for any modules that provide direct access to these areas from within the admin panel rather than letting wordpress manage them .
I have looked at Yoast and felt that would provide what I am looking for, I am interested in the overall use of Wordpress and SEO considerations as a whole? The trade off for having a user control panel to create the website - like the effects on navigation links, Javascript code encapsulation?
thanks for your advice
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Lots of people use Yoast or similar methods and think that they got all of the bases cover. Thereby they forget using their brain.
Often adding a couple extra words to category pages such as "news" or "information" or "facts" can pull in 10x more traffic. Similar results can often be obtained on other parts of the site.
So, do kW research, think about what people are searching for and that hour or two spent might earn the highest amount of money per hour that you ever make in a lifetime.
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Yoast is definitely worth looking but there is also All in One SEO which is widely used. I have over 100 WP websites using it and I'm very happy with it.
All In One SEO has a Premium version but I never tried.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
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Apparently Yoast is really great. http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
Check out the SEOMoz blog about it too:
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