WebMaster & interface design

use of robots.txt make sure content is only crawlable and indexable in one URL location

use of nofollow in comments, yes you might get more comments with dofollow

URL method: WordPress comes with several built in search optimization tools, including the ability to use .htaccess to create apparently static URLs called permalinks.

Sitemap: Creating a Google sitemap for your blog is a easy process.

WordPress  SEO Plugin - Plugin optimizes titles, meta tag information and RSS link feeds for auto discovery.

Title Tags Change: Changing a post’s title tag  you need to install SEO Title Tag WordPress Plugin. SEO Title Tag lets you define custom page titles for your posts.

Optimize images : Images can open up a whole new stream of search engine visitors for your blog.
Optimize links : Links are one of the most important factors that determine your page’s value in a search engine’s eye. Knowing how you should link to internal and external pages will improve your rankings a lot.

SEO Checklist

a list that you can use to help optimize your website

Content

Regardless of how “pretty” your website is, content is what the search engine spiders look at. When a spider hits your page it is going to scan the entire website, including the links that you have on your page. It will determine if you meet the minimum content requirement to be listed in their directory. The content on your page needs to have some “BULK” to it . By this we mean that you should write multiple paragraphs on your page using relevant words to what it is that you want to be listed under. There is no SET number of keywords that you should use, but we recommend having at least 300-500 words on all of your web pages

Keyword Density

Having the right keyword density is one aspect of the SEO “game” that we can control. If you want your web page to be listed for the phrase “webmastergroup”, you need to make sure that this phrase appears multiple times within the text on your website. A keyword density of between 2% and 5% is a general rule that you can follow. This will make the focus keyword/phrase apparent to the search engine spiders and will get you a better chance of being listed for this keyword

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