WordPress SEO setup
With each website we build, we always integrate SEO. With Wordpress, SEO is a lot easier. So, here are the things we did to help this website become more visible.
We integrated the following things to maximize the configuration of this WordPress site.
Installed the XML-Sitemap: This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
Installed the Google Integration Toolkit: This allowed us to do the following:
- Configure Google Webmaster Tools by placing our verification code in a meta tag.
- Configure Google Analytics with our ID
- Allowed us to set our RSS/Atom Feeds
- Allowed us to configure Adsense Section targeting
- Allowed us to track 404 errors with Google as well.
Configured our Permalink settings. We set ours to /%postname%/ To change this setting, go to Settings/Permalinks.
Installed Global Translator 1.2.6: This allows us to activate Google Translation Services. Not sure if this will help us, but figured it couldn’t hurt.
Made sure our blog post titles are H1’s and not H2’s
Set our privacy settings to public. You can do this by going to Settings/Privacy. Ours was already set to public. I’m assuming this is the norm now.
Installed Full Text feed: This allows the feeds to display our entire link therefore giving users links back to our site.
Installed Yet Another Related Posts Plugin to give references to related plugins.
Installed Meta SEO Pack: This allows us to add meta tags to our site page.
Enjoy! Let us know how this changed your site!
