SEO For Wordpress

Wordpress is the most popular and widely used CMS for blogging. Wordpress is free and anyone can use it who has server which can run PHP and MySQL. Its very easy to install and most of the servers with Fantastico can install it a few clicks. There are tons of free Templates and plugins available and if you have some knowledge in php coding you can customize the installation too. I have been using Wordpress for more than 3 years now and I really love it. Creating new posts are very easy. You can even do posts with Microsoft word 2007. You can use the Windows live writer to post blogs on Wordpress which is a very efficient tool.

Search Engine Point of View

Although Wordpress is a well optimized CMS for Search Engines, we can get some tweeks done to get better ranking according the the Web masters guidelines

First Let us tweek the <title> tag of the website

   1: <title>

   2: <?php if(is_home()) { bloginfo('name'); echo " | "; bloginfo('description'); } else { wp_title(''); } ?>

   3: </title>    

I have made some changes from the default ones, It checks if its the home page and if its home page it will display the Blog name and the Description, which you have entered in the options / General and if its a single page, it will display on the title of the page.

Robot.txt

There is a problem with wordpress the it creates lots of duplicate content links which is not good in search engine point of view. You can sort this problem by creating a robot.txt file and place it on the root of your blog installation

   1: User-agent: *

   2: Disallow: /cgi-bin

   3: Disallow: /wp-admin

   4: Disallow: /wp-includes

   5: Disallow: /wp-content/plugins

   6: Disallow: /wp-content/cache

   7: Disallow: /wp-content/themes

   8: Disallow: /trackback

   9: Disallow: /comments

  10: Disallow: /category/*/*

  11: Disallow: */trackback

  12: Disallow: */comments

  13: Disallow: /*?*

  14: Disallow: /*?

  15: Allow: /wp-content/uploads

  16:  

  17: Sitemap: http://home-jobs.in/sitemap.xml

These are simple tweeks, if you have anything that you would like to share, please post it as a comment

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