SEO with wordpress. Tools and plugins to help you rank

1. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk WORDPRESS FOR SEO. HOW WORDPRESS CAN HELP YOU RANK WITH GOOGLE JULY 19 TH 2009. NICK GARNER

2. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk I WORDPRESS IS AWESOME WE LOVE IT!

3. 1. Seo is complex, so follow a process and make it simple 2. Get wordpress set up for SEO > plugins / analytics / testing / webmaster central 3. Content, be useful & relevant. 4. Links…The vote of confidence for your site. 5. Tools and ways to see how you are moving ahead. PRESENTATION STRUCTURE. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk

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6. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO (AND ANALYTICS) MY FAVOURITES THA SAVES ME TIME AND HASSLE…

7. COMMENT: Unless you have a massive site or have indexing problems, then it’s a nice extra, but not so important. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO GOOGLE XML SITEMAPS: GET INDEXED MORE EASILY http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ 4* / 504 ratings | 1,416,701 downloads This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

8. http:// wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection / 4* / 68 ratings | 159,745 Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation. Simple interface to add a redirection A graphical interface to manage all your redirections COMMENT: If you are doing an upgrade from a different CMS, or the site has a history of disruptive changes, this plugin can be invaluable as a great way to mop up old links. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO REDIRECTION

9. http:// wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalink -redirect / 5* rating / 14,132 downloads This plugin fixes all sorts of weird addons to your URL's by automatically 301 redirecting to the permalink for that post, page, category or tag page. Only use this plugin if you're 110% sure you know what you're doing. That way, a URL like this: http://www.example.com/page1/?q=ek Will be automatically redirected to: http://www.example.com/page1/ See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk COMMENT: It’s one of those ‘enable and go’ plugins that you just have on in the background. Obviously if you are using affiliate tracking links, then it’s a no no. PLUGINS FOR SEO PERMALINK REDIRECT

10. COMMENT: Interesting idea…I’ve always spoken about how important internal linking is, so this does it automatically and is great if you want the site to ‘find its own level’. 6* rating / 1,310 downloads http:// wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bayesian -top-title-learner/ First, we make a model of browsing behavior. Then we need to figure out the parameters for this model. Bayesian methods allow us to learn the parameters with few assumptions. See Additional Information for more about the mathematical theory. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO BAYESIAN RELATED LINKS

11. COMMENT: Nice idea, a bit spammy and uncontrollable. If you could switch on or off certain pages and posts, it would be very usable. Still if you’re keen… http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/automatic-seo-links / 6* rating / 5,430 downloads Forget to put manually your links, just choose a word and a URL and this plugin will replace all matches in the posts of your blog. For each link, you can set: Title / Target / Rel Other features Also you can know every moment how many times a word has been changed. This plugin just changes the words in plain text, if it finds a word in a link, title, header.. it would not be replaced. In case the plugin finds more of once the same word in a post, it will only change the first one. This is to avoid black seo and inconveniences to the users. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO AUTOMATIC SEO LINKS

12. COMMENT: Its almost the default plugin for anyone who cares about SEO. Its really all you need to meta tag optimisation. You can even change tags on Individual pages and posts….nice. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack / 4* / 462 ratings | 2,429,459 As you see from the screengrab, it does about everything automatically. All in One SEO Pack See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO ALLIN ONE SEO

14. COMMENT: It chunks down those very long category pages to makes them manageable for spiders and it allows content to not get buried too quickly as is the case with the normal ‘previous > next’ footer links. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/ 5* / 60 Ratings | 289,136 downloads Add paged navigation to your category pages See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO PAGED NAVIGATION

15. COMMENT: Easy way to avoid any possibility of content duplication through Spiders reading the www version and no-www versions of the site as separate sites http:// wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enforce -www-preference/ 5* / 8 ratings | 10,934 downloads Enforce www. Preference enforces your yes-www or no-www preference as defined by your Blog URL setting in 'Options - General.‘ If you have http://example.com/, people who visit any WordPress-served URL staring with http://www.example.com/ will be redirected to the no-www version. If you have http://www.example.com/, people who visit any WordPress-served URL staring with http://example.com/ will be redirected to the yes-www version. The plugin will also strip off any hanging redundant /index.php See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO ENFORCE WWW PREFERENCE

17. COMMENT: When you are ready to dig into your numbers, this plugin will Help you dig right into the data and so make useful decisions. MORE READING: http://www.davechaffey.com/blog/seo/seo-analytics-using-google-analytics/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-google-analytics 4.5* / 18 ratings | 52,274 downloads Plugin to add Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog without making any changes to your template. The plugin can also add tracking to outbound links, downloads from your own site and mailto: links. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGIN FOR ANALYTICS ULTIMATE GOOGLE ANALYTICS

19. COMMENT: It helps add link hierarchy to your site and of course its good for usability. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO (AND ANALYTICS) BREADCRUMB NAVIGATION http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/breadcrumbs 4* rating / 4 ratings | 18,645 Downloads This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme. Why you should do this is outlined in my WordPress SEO article. They could for instance look like this:

20. This is all open to debate…but for SEO, I prefer this URL structure: Mywebsite.com/category-name/post-name-postID.html Mywebsite.com/%category%/%post_name%-%post_id%.html The other big benefit is that the URL acts as a breadcrumb trail. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk PLUGINS FOR SEO SEO FRIENDLY PERMALINKS – I know, its not a plugin ;-)

21. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk GOOD SEO HOUSEKEEPING DONT FORGET TO REGISTER ON GOOGLE WEBMASTER CENTRAL..

22. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk CONTENT REMEMBER, WRITE IT FOR HUMANS AND MAKE IT ON THEME

23. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk Google is the librarian who has to put your site somewhere on its index. So make it easier for them. Get it right and be the BIG book everyone can see. CONTENT THINK LIKE A LIBRARIAN.

25. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk As with breadcrumbs and link hierarchy, think about hierarchy of content. The most important and generic content at the top. The more granular going down the hierarchy. CONTENT STRUCURE

26. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk Links HOW WORDPRESS CAN HELP YOU RANK WITH GOOGLE

27. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk Google value links as they represent a vote for your site. Some links matter more than others. Relevance to your site Really matters. LINKS A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN YOUR SITE

28. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk So make your site useful and relevant. The more sociable interesting and useful you are, the greater your prominence. In search, that means links. And Google loves a nice link! LINKS THE SAME MODEL APPLIES TO HUMANS

29. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk http:// collinlahay.com / Great for really practical tips on getting links. Sphinn is a social bookmarking site for SEO’ers. The most popular content Gets voted up. There is a category for link building: http://sphinn.com/upcoming/LinkBuilding/ This site search brings up some great stuff like: Link Building Strategies: 69 Solid Tactics For 2009 Link Building Worksheets - Organize Your Campaign The 7 Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building More here http:// www.google.co.uk/search?hl = en&q =site%3Asphinn.com+link+building LINKS SOME HOMEWORK

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31. Check your links: (PRO): http://www.majesticseo.com / extraordinary detail on links http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ very useful for mid level use Firefox plugins: SEO Quake: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036 Search Status: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321 SEO for Firefox: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html Detailed site analysis: SEMrush: http://www.semrush.com / Not UK centric, but shows detail on phrases your site ranks for. RAVEN: http://raven-seo-tools.com / All in one linkbuilding CRM. Search Engine Ranking Position Tracking (SERP tracking) Firefox: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/ easy tool. More: 136 free seo tools: http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk TOOLS MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER

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33. He said that WordPress is a “great choice” for SEO because it solves “80-90% of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)”. See this here: http://www.slideshare.net/wordcampuk THE MAN FROM GOOGLE – HE SAY YES! MATT CUTTS. HEAD OF GOOGLE WEBSPAM TEAM