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I spent a few hours last night making sure that all of my Wordpress blogs were optimized, SEO was good and that the blogs were in fact running correctly. I went through a lot of steps but I have a bunch of blogs, some running Wordpress 2.3 and some running Wordpress 2.5 and did all of the optimizing for SEO at the same time.

Here are the steps that I took on each of the blogs

1. Getting rid of extra Wordpress plugins - I got rid of all of the extra SEO plugins knowing that I was going to be using the All in one SEO Pack. I had a bunch of other meta tag stuff and URL rewriting stuff but I just wanted to standardize. Another plugin that I upgraded on all blogs was the Sociable plugin that puts little “Share this on social networking sites” buttons under each post. Read the rest of this entry »

This will be one many articles about Wordpress when it comes to internet marketing. Wordpress although it is a blogging platform is in reality a great way to easily add content to the internet that can not be beat for ease of use, simplicity, SEO and power for driving traffic through Web 2.0One of the most powerful aspects of Wordpress is the use of plugins to add automation to the process of posting and publicizing your content on the internet. Internet marketers use a different subset of plugins than other bloggers do and for good reason. Here are my favorites and why.

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The old SEO or great content debate. I fight this one myself all of the time. I will of course post to blogs everyday and let other sites that I have given up on languish for moths without any new content but what is the most important thing to do?

I can spend a couple of hours tweaking the SEO on a blog to see if I can get a few hundred posts to rank better or I can add one more post and see if that post will get me more traffic.

This has always been tough for me as I have no problem at all with the tweaking of the PHP, Perl or HTML code on a site and see instant changes in a look or at the outside wait a month or so to see the efforts of my SEO work to see if it makes the difference. The other thing that I do at times is the external SEO where I will post to forums (with a good signature link) or post to blogs (automated name, email, and website) and just add comments. Here is what I currently look as good valid work.

1. Content - I will add content everyday but from now on I am going to be a bit more focussed. I will do some keyword research using WordTracker and other sites to get good ideas for posts that will sell well in Google, I will also start writing more reviews so that at least the pages views can convert ot something instead of adsense.

2. SEO - I have tweaked my wordpress on another blog and am waiting to see the whole follow, nofollow, index, noindex and how well they will work but I am going to actually implement these changes on all of my sites to see if there will be a big change. I will be posting soon enough about my WordPress plugins that work for SEO and pageviews but for now just know that I am doing some of that.

3. Content fixing - I am going to surf through all of my blogs and improve my internal SEO as well by making sure that all my posts are keyword rich and  that I am using H2 and H3 tags to the best that I can.

4. Site optimization - I have done this on other blogs. Not on this one yet but I will get to that over the Christmas break. This includes making sure that I have good affiliate products and that people can notice the affiliate links, Adsense is optimized and that I can get as many RSS and newsletter subscribers to my posts.

5. External links for traffic - Blog post comments and Forum comments can be good for backlinks but I believe that  most of them are nofollow so Google will not notice them. I will do more of these kinds of posting though for other blog owners to notice my sites as well as for other readers to notice my sites as well.

I think I have kind of captured everything that is in my mind but I have a bunch more stuff in my head that I want to post about mostly around processes and planning that I do well sometimes and badly at other times.