37. (Google) Analytics:
- number of pageviews per visit
- new unique commenter
- comments
- submitted feedback forms
Email + FeedBurner subscriptions
Twitter followers
etc. etc. etc.
39. 1. Fixing 404’s: good for SEO
2. Improving load times: good for SEO
3. Offerring related posts & increasing internal
linking: good for SEO
4. Improving categorization: good for SEO
5. Improving discussion: good for SEO
Good for SEO
40. 1. Pretty Perma links (/%postname%/)
2. Post Title - Blog Title
3. Using a properly coded theme
4. Read the article:
http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/
4 more things to do
41. Press This on WebmasterRadio
Every Tuesday:
2 PM Pacific
5 PM Eastern
10 PM GMT
Interviews with bloggers, developers
and marketeers, like:
Mark Jaquith (WP Lead Developer)
Vitaly Friedman (SmashingMagazine)
Aaron Wall (SEOBook)
Search for “Press This” in iTunes and subscribe or go to
www.pressthis.com!
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/06/09/series-wordpress-plugin
Check your analytics: which pages are viewed most? Which pages and posts do you have related to that? Link them!!
Through all these cool plugins we often forget how to use the superbly useful internal stuff in WordPress: Categories, Tags and custom taxonomies. Do your categories still match the blog you have today? http://yoast.com/wordpress/simple-taxonomies/
We want to have them come back, so we make them subscribe! I prefer email, because of it’s high response.
