SEO or search engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website in search engines. The document provides tips for optimizing a WordPress blog for SEO, including making sure the blog is publicly visible, using canonical URLs, checking for valid HTML, adding XML sitemaps to notify search engines of new content, avoiding sponsored themes, using descriptive slugs and tags, implementing deep links between related posts, and organizing content into silos by theme to increase relevance.

1. WordPress SEO
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2. What is SEO?
Search Engine Optimization is the process of
improving the visibility of a website or a web
page in search engines via the "natural" or un-
paid search results.

3. Out of the Box

4. Search Engines
From your admin panel, go to Options >
Privacy and make sure it’s set to “I would
like my blog to be visible to everyone.

5. Stick to the path

6. Canonicalization
Starting with version 2.3, WordPress takes care
of this and makes sure your content is
accessible from only one place. So if you use
an older version, either upgrade to the latest
version of WordPress, or install the Permalink
Redirect plugin.

7. Check for Valid XHTML
http://validator.w3.org/

8. Don’t Leak Your Juice
Consider adding rel=”nofollow”

9. Map Your Journey
The Google XML Sitemaps Generator for
WordPress makes creation of these
sitemaps easy and automatic. It also lets
the engines know when you post new
content.

10. Avoid Sponsored Themes

11. Power of the Slug
The SEO Slugs plugin can take out
common words like “you,” “is,” etc. out of
the slug for you automatically.

12. Keep it Fresh
Use the Timed Stamp to Keep Content
Fresh

13. Tag! Your It!
Use tags and use the tag suggestion plugin
if you have trouble with thinking of tags

14. Implement Deep-Linking
Install the Similar Posts plugin, which
inserts a list of related posts you’ve written
to the bottom of each of your blog posts.
This process will create aged deep links
and increase visitor retention.

15. Make Scrapers Work For You
Add some related posts in your feed using
the Solo Technologies Add Related Posts
to your Feed Plugin.

16. All in One SEO

17. Make Your Links Pretty
To enable or change them, first login, then
go to Options > Permalinks.

18. SEO Siloing
Siloing is the technique of theming your
site’s directories to increase search engine
relevance in a natural and logical way.