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SEO For WordPress
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Roy Huiskes
www.chapter42.com
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• [insert blatant crap about myself, preferably a couple of slides.]
• [warn people I talk fast and presentation will be available for download]
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SEO & WordPress:
What have we got?
• Good basic theme
(twentyten, turn of comment pagination though)
• Lot’s of Plug-ins
• Search Engine Friendly out of the box
• Pages (hierarchical)
• Posts (chronological)
• Taxonomies ftw!
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What’s missing?
• Bloggers with knowledge of SEO
• Easy Internal Linking (will come in 3.1)
• Redirects, at least some custom stuff.
• A plan
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Let’s fix this.
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How to run a proper SEO strategy?
• Think about keywords (you think) you’re relevant for
• Use Pages for ranking instead of Posts
• Internal linking
• On-page stuff needs to be right
(go read a book: the Art of SEO)
• Off-page
(don’t forget to promote your precious work)
• Keep trying and learning
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Bad internal linking structure
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Good internal linking structure
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thank you: http://twitter.com/richardbaxter
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Pages vs. Posts
• Posts are most of the time categorized by your
timeline.The older, the deeper in the site it will
end up.
• If it ranks well, give it a good, solid, place in your
structure. Give it a page.
(post type switcher plugin ftw)
• Keep updating (and linking to) the page every once
and while
• Redirect the old Post to the Page (redirection)
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Which SEO Plugins I recommend, and why?
• SEO smart links (or ‘automatic SEO links’)
• WordPress SEO
• Post type switcher
• Redirection
• Link to Post
• SEO Pager
• YARPP
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SEO Smart links
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SEO Smart links: Settings
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• Link only to pages automatically
• Target only Posts and Pages
• Prevent linking in headers
• Don’t overdo it. Keep the user in mind.
• Cache it (or let your server die slowly...)
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WordPress SEO
• Replaces:
- Meta Robots
- Breadcrumbs
- Headspace
• Compatible with W3Total Cache
• Free! (great paid upgrade packages though)
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WordPress SEO
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Redirection
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Link to Post
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SEO Pager
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Remember though:
free stuff, isn’t always free.
• Check for ‘bad’/‘commercial’ footer links in themes
and plugins
• It would be smart if you didn’t use code that you
can’t read.
• Try this in Google every once and a while:“viagra
viagra OR cialis OR poker OR casino
site:chapter42.com”
• nofollow crappy commenters.
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Protect yourself
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Stuff like this hurts your reputation at Google.
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By the way: #movember
http://bit.ly/mobronl
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