Weekly Series: Blog Optimization with WordPress

A fellow Plurker suggested that I should blog about how I optimize my website, and of course, it would be a pleasure for me to showcase how I’m doing my thing, with of course, no regrets o sharing these hawt tips that other people might consider golden, that they don’t mind not to share them with people who are less knowledgeable about blogging, SEO on-and-off site context.

That is why I have decided to come up with a small posting series for this week on how I optimize the website and what things to do first. Of course, before I will have a website optimized from an Search Engine Optimization standpoint, you need to own one and have hosting under your feet to keep your website up and running and if you expect a large scale amount of traffic, decent hosting is surely what you should get, keep in mind that you will always get what you pay for, that, in most cases.

1. I Choose WordPress – It’s the first step towards the whole optimization process of website or a blog, choosing WordPress. Without this piece, you ain’t be somebody, of course, you still can be somebody with other blogging service solutions, but keep in mind that you surely need to exert much more effort to reach what you can become effortless when you have WordPress in your hand. WordPress.Org Keep in mind that WordPress.Com and WordPress.Org are totally different.
2. I choose plugins I need – You don’t need fancy plugins, you don’t need a greet box right away on a website for scratch, all you want to display at first is your content, a box where people can start subscribing and a few ads that they might like that interest them for your monetizing purpose, but do not pick what you want, choose plugins wisely and have in mind to install what you need. Seven Plugins For Every Blog
3. I choose a theme where content is King – Tons and tons of themes, one more fancy than the other, one with more clickable stuff than the other, while all a theme needs to do is to serve the content of yours, the best way it can from an reader and search engine standpoint (code it properly) Pick a Theme that lets your content stand out, compliments your ad placement well (if you have any) and does not confuses your reader where to go right after they digested your post (or else you’ll see them click away)

Once you have done everything basic (the WordPress way), you are off to a great start. I let you digest these three pointers for a moment, specially for those who are not using WordPress (stand alone, not the other one) right now. In the next page, we’ll dig into further off-site optimization that shall help us get our blog indexed well, crawled frequently and ranked high in Google Search.

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   Ty Rasmussen

   Posted on August 4, 2009

   And he was much more talkative on course.

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