WordPress optimization allows search engines to bring you more traffic

WordPress is a blog program, with it you can set up entirely your own blog.

And WordPress is now the application is not only in the blog, because of its strong extensibility, some sites have even started using WordPress to set up, or that these blogs you can not even see they are just blog.

Download: Http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.5-RC1.zip

WordPress itself is a search engine is very friendly Blog platform, and WordPress is also very suitable for SEO, this article introduces the 10 aspects of WordPress, simple and practical. SEO is Search engine optimization, the goal is to make your blog in search engine search results in the rankings are improved, so that the search engine to your blog to bring more traffic.

1. Make Sitemap

Through Google Webmaster tools to Google to submit sitemap sitemap, you can make the content of the site is fully included, including those hidden darker pages. This is a good way for a website to talk to a search engine.

I used a plugin called Google XML Sitemaps. The plug-in is simple to use. Upload to the plugin folder after downloading, then to the background activation, and then to Setting = "Xml-sitemap page to set." Then go to Google webmaster Tools to submit your Sitemap. If you don't have an account with Google webmaster Tools, you need to sign up for one, where you'll be prompted to do so.

2. Set robots.txt

From the SEO point of view, the robots.txt file is set, this is because: the use of robots.txt files can be shielded from the secondary, URL rewrite optimization before the link, as well as shielding some no keyword pages, For example, this site search results page search.html, it is best to shield off.

robots.txt files must be placed in the root directory of the site, can be successfully accessed through/robots.txt, then the site is placed correctly. If the robots.txt file is placed in a subdirectory, then the search engine can not crawl, it will not play any role.

My robots.txt is set in this way:

User: * (stating that my blog is open to all search engines)

Disallow:/search.html (Description search.html This page prohibits search engine crawling)

Disallow:/index.php? (Description of pages like this/?s=seo prohibit search engine crawling)

Sitemap:/sitemap.xml (Site map sitemap address)

3. Change permanent link

See my another article: optimize WP fixed link and 301 redirect.

4. Adjust the right column

While this is not SEO, the clear and concise right-hand sidebar helps improve the user experience. Put the most commonly used columns to the front, such as Pages, Categories and recent comments, put some users do not click the column to the back, such as archives, Link, Meta.

Many friends tirelessly toss style theme, Blog content is empty. Search engines will not recognize your style, but will focus on the content of your article. Therefore, we must properly optimize the title and content of the article.

5. Optimize title (page title), caption

Page title, do not put the Blog name in front of the title of the article, because in the search results, the page title will be highlighted, the Blog name on the front, will cause the length of too long to be hidden, and not conducive to visitors in the first time to focus on the article itself title. To solve this problem, simply replace the original code with the following code in the title of your Blog's header.php: