Optimizing a Wordpress Blog For SEO
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Besides the standard Yoast for SEO plugin tweaks, I'm researching best practices when setting up a wordpress blog.
In this instance, the "front end" of the site would be hardcoded static pages designed for an e-commerce site, while there would also be a /blog/ attached to the site - for blog posts, fresh content, etc.
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Actually i am sorry i am not clear your this point.i have tried a lot but can't.will you please explain ?
" Setup your theme and templates to use structured data in the HTML. This will tell Google specifically what your pages and products are best categorized as. http://schema.org. You can use this especially for product reviews which may show up as rich snippets in the search results "
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Nice information...I am using Yoast SEO Plugins....but Sitemap not showing...i have downloaded your recommended plugins and wishing to use tomorrow
Nice Go on .........
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Thanks, that presentation was great.
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I would also recommend that whilst using Yoast for most SEO purposes, you should also use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin by Arne Brachhold (rather than utilising Yoasts built in sitemap functionality). It offers you much more flexibility for your sitemap. For example, you can alter the change frequency of your pages/posts, with Arne's plugin, something which the Yoast plugin doesn't allow unless you play with the PHP.
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I hope you can view this. . .
http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/advanced-wordpress-seo
I watched it just the other day, it was awesome
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There are a ton of things you can do. Some of my favorites:
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Optimize the page speed to load as quick as possibly. Good plugin: W3 Total Cache, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/
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Setup your theme and templates to use structured data in the HTML. This will tell Google specifically what your pages and products are best categorized as. http://schema.org. You can use this especially for product reviews which may show up as rich snippets in the search results.
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Setup Google Authorship (rel=author) and/or Google Publisher tags for your blog posts and or/pages
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Change your permalink structure to %postname%
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Use the Redirection plugin to track your 404s, 301s, and other typical server response codes: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
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Yoast has an Analytics plugin with many customization options for tracking
There is obviously a lot you can do since WP is an open source platform. These should get you started and busy for a while!
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