5 Wordpress SEO tweaks to make Wordpress SEO friendly

Wordpress is easy to configure – but doing some cool little tweaks(which are also easy) can give you outstanding results – be it traffic or Search Engine ranks that you are looking for. here’s a compilation of the best SEO tweaks for Wordpress.

1. Custom permalinks - Undoubtedly the best one suggested by SEO’s. This tweak requires you to change the default page title from (www.yourdomaincom/?p=5) to a much SEO and user friendly www.yourdomainname.com/category/page title.
   This can be done by following the two below steps.
   1. Goto Options > Permalinks
   2. Change the default setting to custom with the following code – /%category%/%postname%/
2. Custom Page Title
   Page titles in Wordpress are by default like this – Blog Name – Post title
   A better title would be Post Title – Blog name, as the important keywords are in the post title.Search Engines love it so make the change today.
3. Make your titles links
   If your theme doesn’t have links on your article titles, make the change today. Convert them to links so that search engines can detect them easily and humans as well(if they are planning to use the link). Without the link, it’s impossible(almost) to link to that post right?
   This tweak simple incorporates the permanent link to your post headings.
   In your Main Index Template and Page Template, find the code for the post tiltle, it would look like this – without the square brackets but these > < .
   

   [h2][?php the_title(); ?][/h2]

Now, replace it with

[h2][a href="[?php the_permalink() ?]” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to [?php the_title(); ?]“][?php the_title(); ?][/a][/h2]

(replace teh square brackets with these>< )

These are the Top 5 Wordpress tweaks that will give you that extra edge over normal wordpress non-SEO’d blogs. If all these tricks are combined with the ones that I’ve mentioned recently, i assure you’ll be a hot pick for the search engines!