The 3 Most Important WordPress Documentations to Help You Build SEO Blogs

Posted on August 20, 2007
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We all know search engine Optimization (SEO) plays important role in blogging profitability. While bloggers frequently search for the latest SEO “super tips” on to net, they may have ignored the well documented SEO fundamental knowledge right on the WordPress official website. I believe the following 3 Wordpress documents have detailed everything you need for building a SEO blog.

1. Using Permalinks
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

That is the starting point of WordPress SEO, - configure permalink for you blog. Determine a permalink structure and stick with it for all of your post articles. Then every article from you site will have a permanent URL indexed by search engines. Choose the permalink structure carefully. Once you decide, don’t change it because all of your posts have been assigned a permanent URL on the same structure. My site use %postname%_%post_id%.html

2. Validating a Website
http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website

This document provides methods and tools for validating your blogs. I don’t need to repeat the advantages of website validation since I have a separate post on this topic already. Check this - Validate Every Page in Your Blog.

3. Search Engine Optimization for WordPress
http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress

This document not only covers basic SEO practices such as coding, contents, keywords, and links, but also provide up to date blogging SEO approaches like Technorati Tags, Google Sitemaps, and Feed Submissions. Other topics, for instance, Meta Tags, Robots.txt Optimization, Link Relationships are also well explained.

This document also provides links of resources and tutorials where I can learn a lot about SEO:

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One Response to “The 3 Most Important WordPress Documentations to Help You Build SEO Blogs”

  1. junior on February 26th, 2008 6:24 am

    Permalink structure in WordPress is very important in having a search engine friendly URL …

    In my case I used Deans permalink…

    Very informative post on SEO!

    :)

    Junior- Technology Blogger

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