WAYS TO MAKE YOUR WORDPRESS SITE SEO-FRIENDLY 1. URL Structure Have you notice that default WordPress installation will generate url like this: yoursite/?p=”13059″ This url will not make sense to humans nor to search engine web spiders. A URL is meaningful to search engine. Making it readable will make a lot of sense to humans and search engines. A lot of WordPress users forget to change this on the back-end. There is an option at the back-end under Settings->Permalink. 2. Titles and Descriptions Titles are important factors of SEO. It tells readers what to expect on the rest of the content. Remember that the description is what search engine users will see once it comes up on the Google, Bing or Yahoo. Always make sure that your title and description inspire users. Also, ensure that this is really the content of your page. 3. Header Tags It’s also worth mentioning that H1, H2, H3 tags are good to your site’s SEO. By default, the title of your site will be wrapped in an H1 tag. This will inform the search engine robots to its importance to the page. But don’t overdo it.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:04:59 +0000