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Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Deep Linking

You might have noticed that throughout this series on WordPress SEO, I’ve been doing something rather peculiar.  I’ve been linking to my own content far more than I’ve been linking out.  Now, this isn’t because I’m a stingy linker.  I just happen to have a goal in the methodology I’m using in this series with [...]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Nathan Rice 9 Comments »

Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Keyword Density

By utilizing the practice of Keyword Density, we can improve our rankings for the keywords we’re targeting. In this post, I give you a few tips for implementing a keyword density strategy.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Nathan Rice 10 Comments »

Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - META Keywords

How to use WordPress tags as META Keywords for Search Engine Optimization.

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Nathan Rice 14 Comments »

Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - META Descriptions

Want to know how to control how search engines display your content on their results pages? Then check out this tip in our WordPress SEO Series!

Monday, October 13th, 2008 Nathan Rice 28 Comments »

Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Optimized Heading Tags

Last year I read an article at Chris Pearson’s website that absolutely changed the way I looked at markup standards and WordPress SEO. Seriously, up until that point, I was convinced that SEO was a bunch of garbage for blackhat guys who were looking to game the system and cheat the rest of us. [...]

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Nathan Rice 15 Comments »

Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Optimized Titles

Arguably, one of the most important elements of a website from an SEO perspective is what comes between the <title></title> tags in the header of your page. Take a look at any search result page in Google and you’re probably looking at a list of websites with big blue links … and the text of [...]

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Nathan Rice 19 Comments »

Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Keyword-Rich Permalinks

WordPress.org describes permalinks as “the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings.”
But permalinks themselves won’t help if you haven’t optimized them.  Understanding the role your permalinks play in your WordPress SEO starts with understanding the methods for permalink optimization.  Keyword-rich permalinks, along with the other [...]

Monday, October 6th, 2008 Nathan Rice 8 Comments »

Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Indexing Control

OK, so you’ve got yourself an XML Sitemap, and you’ve told Google where to find your sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools.  So far, you’re well on your way to optimizing your WordPress site.
The next thing in your journey to the ultimate in WordPress SEO is telling the Search Engines what they need to index.

Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Nathan Rice 14 Comments »

Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Google Webmaster Tools

In my last post in this WordPress SEO series, we covered how to use the XML-Sitemaps plugin so you could generate a sitemap for your WordPress site.  Today, we’re going to cover the best way to get Google to recognize that sitemap and start crawling your site!

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Nathan Rice 3 Comments »

Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Google Sitemaps

Several Weeks ago, I decided to take on the subject of WordPress SEO.  In my experience, setting up your WordPress installation for maximum search engine exposure hasn’t been terribly difficult, but I know that to many people, the task can seem overwhelming.
Today, I want to begin this series of posts by introducing you to the [...]

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Nathan Rice 10 Comments »

WordPress SEO - The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Theme Search Engine Optimization

Learn how to tackle the task of Optimizing your WordPress theme for Search Engines in 10 practical steps.

Friday, August 8th, 2008 Nathan Rice 44 Comments »