Optimizing Wordpress Categories
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I’m trying to optimize the category links in the wordpress blog http://blog.reputationforward.com. I’m in the process of installing the Yeost SEO plugin and am going to revise the Category Title Tags, Meta Descriptions and slugs. I’m also in the process of using Tags so that I can get the posts that appear in a category to be specific to that category (currently the publisher is listing posts in multiple categories: See “Business Management Category”).
But other than that, is there anything else I can do to optimize each category?
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A quick little tip, whatever SEO plugin you choose, make sure you choose one you like and want to continue to use. If you write a bunch of meta descriptions in one plugin and decide to switch you'll need to figure out how to migrate your existing descriptions or you'll lose them. This is not so much an issue for categories as it is for posts and WordPress ages.
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Hi EGOL,
Will SEO Smart Links work with the Yeost SEO Plugin? (I'm new to wordrpess and plugins so I don't really know how they work together)
Eric
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I am using the SEO Smart Links plugin. That allows me to specify a list of keywords that will be hotlinked to a category page.
For example: If I have a category named "widgets" I can give it a list of keywords such as these....
widgets, blue widgets, red widgets, brass widgets
..... and they will be hotlinked within the post text to the "widgets" category page.
This has increased the pageviews of my blog and should deliver some SEO value because of the diverse anchor text utilization.
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