Wordpress Search Engine Optimzation Tips
June 24, 2007
I have been researching and applying some SEO tips to eTalkMoney, I did it before but now with some extra points. All my sites have been ranked very well but never did major updates in SEO with eTalkMoney as there is not a lot of competition in this field that this site was. But after the announcement of changes I want to focus with eTalkmoney in ways to earn money online of course autosurf, hyip and forex also counts (Why not? if they have been a big source of income to me and is approximately from $1000 (now with e-gold issues) to $10,000 (When there are good programs) per Month. ).
I will give some tips on how to SEO your wordpress (Blog). I Want you to check eTalkMoney in Search Engines those keywords that this site is ranked as at least top 1 page of the results in any search engine.
SEO Tip 1:
Go into header.php and replace the (title tag) whatever is in the title tag (/title tag) with:
|title>< ?php if (is_home()) {bloginfo('name') ;} else { wp_title(' ');} ?|
What this does is for the home page, it uses the blog’s title for the Title tag and for everything else, it will use the title of the blog post or page for the Title tag.
If you really want your blog name in all your posts, use this:
|title>< ?php wp_title(''); ?>< ?php if(wp_title('', false)) { ?> | < ?php } ?>< ?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?|
I added the second one, but some SEO experts says that the title should not be long. If this don’t have any effect to eTalkMoney I will add the first one without adding the name of the blog.
SEO Tip 2:
Most of you know how important is for search engines spiders the h1 tag. Everything between h1 tag it means that is “the most important anchor text in the site” for spiders. So I changed the single.php from h2 tag to h1 tag in the title:
|h2>|a href="< ?php echo get_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link: < ?php the_title(); ?>“>< ?php the_title(); ?>
To:
|h1 id="single_header">|a href="< ?php echo get_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link: < ?php the_title(); ?>“>< ?php the_title(); ?>
Now we’ll need to go into the css file. Find all the h2 and add on h1#single_header like how we did the blog title above.
So for the first occurrence of h2 that needs #single_header in the css for our example
h2 {
font-size: 1.6em;
}
to this:
h2, h1#single_header
{
font-size: 1.6em;
}|
I have the chance to change on the main page also. But think about it:
If you wrote about X topic, and the post is at the first page then the spider came index the main page and add you in the first page of the result with that X keyword, then you post till the X topic is gone to the second page, that keyword will disappear as well in the search engines. So it is better that the spider index the article page than your main site.
SEO Tip 3:
I have added a TAG title in the top image that eTalkMoney uses. If you have images in your blog (logo, header or any images) add always a tag so the spider can recognize it.
SEO Tip 4:
You know how your site can be damaged because of Duplicate Content. Wordpress is notorious when it comes to make duplicate content. The archives, categories, and even the front page can cause duplicate content issues which is bad for SEO.
Insert the following between the header tags:
| ?php
if((is_home() && ($paged < 2 )) || is_single() || is_page() || is_category()){
echo '‘;
} else {
echo ‘‘;}
?|
Now, only the page, home, and single page will be indexed, everything else will be set to noindex.
When you’re writing posts, make use of the |< !–more–>| tag in the wordpress Write Post screen. You want to use this so you don’t have your entire post indexed twice (once in the front and once in post view).
SEO Tip 5:
I applied that long ago but when I upgraded (The last time) I forgot to save this file and deleted by mistake. Make a text file named robots.txt with
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /page/
Disallow: /date/
Disallow: /comments/
SEO Tip 6:
Also this I applied when I first opened eTalkMoney this is a MUST!:
Change Permalink Structure
Go to the Wordpress admin and goto the options menu, in the submenu goto Permalinks.
For custom structure, use:
/%category%/%postname%/
SEO Tip 7:
Wordpress came with a default .htaccess let’s add something extra:
Default Htaccess
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
In your .htaccess file add the following 2 lines at the end.
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^DOMAIN.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.DOMAIN.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
Change DOMAIN to your domain name.
So it looks like:
# BEGIN WordPress
|ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^etalkmoney.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.etalkmoney.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
Make sure: “RewriteEngine On” is also in the htaccess (default for Wordpress Htaccess).
Now on, all your domains will redirect to www.YourDomainHere.com if you use type blogtitle.com. This is to stop canonicalization.
Hope you enjoy! More tips will come!
Note: Remember to replace from “|” tag to “< " or ">” because I can’t post it here.
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