If you want more organic traffic for your WordPress blog, then you have to get it optimized for the search engines. What you need, to get your WordPress blog SEO (Search Engine Optimization) ready are only two plugins and one simple setting. A blog optimized for search engines will get lots of organic traffic, which in return will bring your more sales and more clicks on advertisement such as Google Adsense. In short, it brings more money!
The two WordPress plugins are
1. All-In-One SEO pack – The All-in-1 seo pack is a plugin that adds the appropriate page title (within the <title></title> pair), meta tag description and keywords (i.e <meta name=”description” content=”This is a wordpress blog”/> and <meta name=”keywords” content=”Blog, WordPress”/> respectively) that are loved by search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing (MSN) and Ask.com etc.
2. Google XML SiteMap – The Google XML Sitemap plugin for WordPress lets your blog generate a new sitemap in XML format and also notifies the search engines’ crawlers for the pick-up of this new sitemap, whenever a new content is updated or added to your blog. If you wanna get indexed by Google as soon as possible, get this Google XML SiteMap plugin for your blog, and register for an account in Google Webmaster Tools, and submit your sitemap there. Your blog shall appear in Google index in a few days’ time. You can verify by typing site:yoursite.com in Google search box.
The one setting
The one setting that you need is to get the permanent URL of your blog post to be search-engine friendly. This can easily be done by going to your Blog’s Setting -> Permalinks -> Custom Settings – Chose either Day and name or Month and name to make the permanent URL of your blog post to appear like the title of your blog post such as this post – Get Your WordPress Blog SEO READY.
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