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23 Apr

On-Page SEO Tips to Optimize WordPress

WordPress is a wonderful platform for blogging and it can even be used as a CMS solution for a professional company website by just some clever adjustments. ( See one of my clients website in real estate market ) Optimizing WordPress for better search engine rankings is easy and there are several plugins ready to use on your optimization process. Here are a list of useful WordPress Search Engine Optimization tips to help you build a SEO Friendly structure in your blog.

Optimization of Internal and External Links

SEO Smart Links is a great plugin for internal link building. It can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog, allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. It also adds “nofollow” attribute to external links and opens links in a new window.

Optimize your meta tags and dublicate content

All in One SEO Pack is a must- have plugin. It addresses many important on-page factors like titles, descriptions, keywords, dublicate content and saves time.

Optimize your permalinks

Use either /%postname% or /%category%/%postname%/ permalinks URL structure while optimizing your URL’s. You can do it from your dashboard by going to Settings>Permalink Settings and custom your structure in common settings area.

10 Apr