WordpressOver the past few months I have gotten a few emails asking me what I do to SEO my Wordpress sites. Well it really is pretty simple. I have basically used three different Wordpress plugins to SEO my sites. Two of these plugins work together to ensure that my meta tags are written correctly. The other plugin is used to make sure my site is being picked up by Google.

Plugin #1 - Ultimate Tag Warrior

This is probably the best plugin I have seen to date for tagging your articles and content. In order to effectively SEO your Wordpress site you will need some sort of tagging plugin. Ultimate Tag Warrior allows displays the tags you associate with your post. The plugin can display a long-tail histogram of your top 150 tags. I like UTW because you have the option of displaying a tag cloud on your page (you can sort by the most popular first or by alphabetical). To find out more about this plugin please click here! You may also wish to get the Tag Cloud widget for UTW if you want a tool that is easy to use for displaying your tag clouds!

Plugin #2 – wpSEO

The wpSEO plugin is perfect for getting your sites meta tags ready for the search engines. The wpSEO plugin rewrites your blog title, META-description, META-keywords and META-robots so these are more user and search engine friendly. You have the ability to select how your description is pulled from your homepage, your static pages and your articles. wpSEOP is great because it allows you to use your UTW tags for your meta keywords. By combining wpSEO with the pow of Ultimate Tag Warrior your page should be ready to grow the ranks of the major search engines. To find out more about this plugin please click here!

Plugin #3 - Google Sitemaps

The Google Sitemaps plugin basically updates and rebuilds the XML file everytime you make a new post and then ping’s google to tell them about it. The more you publish the more you will actually be cached by google. To find out more about this plugin please click here!

Don’t stress yourself out by uploading 10 different plugins for SEO. These three should do the trick.

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Errol Potok
BusinessShakers.com/errol

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