3 On Page SEO Tips For WordPress Users There are many things you need to do in order to ensure that your WordPress blog and it's content has perfect on page optimization and receives maximum traffic from the search engines.
Here are just a few of them.
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The Use Of Categories How you use categories when you write your content is important to your SEO.
The first thing you need to do is use your categories wisely.
WordPress blogs are structured so that when you make a post and tick a certain category, the category page contains that blog post.
This means that if you select more than one category for any post you make, that blog post appears on multiple category pages and creates duplicate content on your blog.
Tip number one is to ensure that when writing your content you never put it in more than one category.
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Keywords In Your Blog Post Obviously, if you're writing a post to target keyword X, your post content needs to contain that keyword.
Depending on how long your post is, including the keyword once or twice in the content is fine, along with other LSI relevant keywords.
To take it one step further, you can make sure that when your main keyword is included in a post, that you make it bold.
This helps users who found your post when searching for that keyword to navigate through your post content and read it faster.
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Using Tags The use of tags (these are the tags that WordPress creates, not social bookmarking tags) doesn't in itself have a direct SEO benefit but it does help users navigate your site and find the content that they want.
This means that they stay on your site for longer and increase the number of page views per visitor, which CAN be a factor that will cause Google to like your site more.
To use tags properly, all you need to do is type some tags into the tag field that are relevant to your content.
In other words, if a user was reading a post on this keyword, what other keywords (related to existing or future content on your site) might they also be interested in.
When you write other posts in the future you can tag them with the same keyword and then they will be able to found when a user comes across that particular tag.
While there are many things you need to do to ensure the best rankings for your posts, getting these three right will give you a great head start.