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06

9 Must-do WordPress SEO Tips that you might have missed

I’m not going to talk about the much repeated permalink editing or heading changes here. Instead, I’m going to share with you some SEO tips for WordPress that you might not have bothered to check, the fine details that is. Keep in mind that some of them are the result of recent updates from Google. Let’s go.

1. Nofollow your RSS feeds

We don’t need the bots to crawl them. Google is clever enough to discard them but you might want to keep other bots awy.

2. Nofollow your Archives and Tags

They make the content show up at more than one place (the original article) and thus may create duplicate content on the blog. Why take chance ? Nofollow them.

3. Change the Post title to H1 from H2

Normally, all WordPress themes comes with the post title as H2. In my opinion you should change it to H1 as it could be the most important title on the page.

4. Add Titles and ALT tags to your smaller images

Many a times, you miss the smaller images. Tag them well with ALT and Title tags.

5. Test your page load time and keep it under 3 secs

Most of this depends on your server and code. Its not easy, but if you can keep it as low as possible – just great !

6. Take off any signs/characters from your page titles/ Change the page title format

Many a times, themes comes with fancy character signs like “>>” in the page title. Rip them off, you’re wasting SEO real estate there.

7. Change the blog/site name to H2 or H3 from H1

Most themes come with the blog/sitename in H1 on any page. Change it to H3 or so, and use the CSS to make it appear visually big. We need post titles to be H1. (Ref: step 3)

8. Fix your default 404 error page with a plugin

We don’t need them. They’re ugly. Use a plugin to show up a custom 404 error page. Alternatively the best thing to do is to find and kill all the broken links.

9. Make your meta descriptions unique and not a repetition of your content (snippets)

If you took the easy way, then you might have not touched the meta description. Instead of pulling the first few lines from the post itself, its always good if you can make them unique and descriptive so that it appeals to anyone on the SERPs and draws in a click.

So, it doesn’t matter if you use a SEO plugin or not, make sure these silly looking metrics are taken care of, because in the long run, these “silly” things could make a difference.

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Category: Wordpress SEO | Author: Mani Karthik
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  1. Dexter | Techathand.netNo Gravatar

    and for the tenth make sure you have installed the canonical links generator ..

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    The Canonical tag. I completely agree Dexter.

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  2. SubmitshopNo Gravatar

    Great tips on wp seo….

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  3. AtulNo Gravatar

    Are these tips for wordpress.org blogs ?

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    MaheshNo Gravatar Replied:

    Yeah.. These are for wordpress.org blogs! And these will also work for wordpress.com blogs, except the plugin tips!

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    Thanks for chipping in Mahesh. :)

    Reply

  4. AlVin KoayNo Gravatar

    Good post and will look into all these. Like the ones especially with the H1 tags.

    Dexter: What is the canonical links generator? Can u point us to the plugin? Thanks.

    Al

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  6. HendriNo Gravatar

    Good tips. i will try use it in my blog.

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  12. LoganNo Gravatar

    Can you explain how to Nofollow things? Good tips, but a little more detail would be nice.

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    Sure Logan, you can find m,ore about it in this article I wrote about the Nofollow tag quite some days ago.

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  14. Nischal ShettyNo Gravatar

    Awesome points… after a long time I’m coming across an article that’s fresh and precise, to the point!

    Speaking of taking out signs (>>) from page title, my page title has a ‘|’ which differentiates the site name, is that OK?

    Another question, what’s ur opinion – page titles should contain your website name or not?

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    IMHO It depends on how much you want to use the title for SEO. If you can pin down your idea into a precise title, nothing like it. But sometimes you also want some branding done, in which case you can reserve some space for the blog name. Otherwise, its not necessary/doesn’t give any advantage at all.

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  16. Anish K.SNo Gravatar

    Cool tips, done the point ” 3. Change the Post title to H1 from H2 “

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  17. TinhNo Gravatar

    Do you mind if I translate this article into Vietnamese and post at my blog: blogviet.info? I will linkback and write source at the end of the blog. Thanks in advance

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  18. AbdullahNo Gravatar

    Do you mind if I translate this article into arabic and post at my blog: des-idea.net , and arabic wordpress forum : ar-wp.com? I will linkback and write source at the end of the blog. Thanks in advance ..

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    No problem Abdullah, as long as the credit remains. Thanks for asking.

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  19. Michael HenryNo Gravatar

    Good tips.

    The question I have is about the H1 suggestion. I was under the impression its best to have one h1 tag. For the individual posts it makes sense to change the blog title / tag line from H1 to H6, but for the index having all those H1 won’t help much, will it?

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  22. Ben CookNo Gravatar

    All solid tips, although I disagree with you in regards to nofollowing your archive and tag pages.

    Tag pages can rank quite well for terms & don’t have to be duplicate content if you only allow them to include excerpts or post titles instead of the whole post.

    I go a bit more in depth about this in my SEO Guide for Wordpress

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  25. NiharNo Gravatar

    Great tips….

    Thanks…

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  28. Glenn JimersonNo Gravatar

    Another easy tweak to add to that list is to remove the extraneous links to Wordpress, XML/HTML validity checkers, etc… These are traffic and PR leaks.

    Granted, don’t go overboard and remove good links like the ones to the theme’s author. A little link love is worth it for some of the great themes out there.

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  29. Chris J. PolitzkiNo Gravatar

    Nice tips there!

    Thanks for sharing… I’ll be returning soon for more tips!

    Chris

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  30. Chris J. PolitzkiNo Gravatar

    Sorry, had my blog address wrong on my previous post. Oops!

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  31. HafizNo Gravatar

    what is the solution, so that my website back in the search engine google

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  32. alfonNo Gravatar

    now i’m understand my mistake.. i don’t know that we have to add alt to image in the posting and header H1, H2, H3 syntax i don’t know to that we have to use it ..
    thanks for the tips this is very hepful for me thanks a lot

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  33. emonwebNo Gravatar

    Hi Mani thanks 4 tips, i like to do most of things manually rather using a plugin 4 my wp. anyway your source prints meta generator info twice. 1 probably 4 header file another 4 all in one SEO plugin. check these out.

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  34. noorNo Gravatar

    Great post – Just subscriped to your RSS feed.. Thanks
    Very interesting post – Might be old new, but it was new to me. Thanks.

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  36. DaveNo Gravatar

    Some very valid points. SEO is a bit of a minefield but if you find a good company then it can be a ggod investment.

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  37. CaseyNo Gravatar

    Do you think that the H! stuff still makes a difference with Google? It seems to irrelevant with CSS resizing everything nowadays,

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