WordPress SEO – Search Engine Optimization – is a key factor in getting your blog into the Search Engine results listing. There are a few things that can be done to aid this. The most important, in my mind, is creating a Search Engine friendly URL.
A SE Friendly URL is one that contains proper words, as opposed to parameters in the URL.
For example:
http://www.makingeasymoney.co.za/2006/02/15/creating-adsense-ads/
As opposed to:
http://www.makingeasymoney.co.za/?p=35
How to change this in WordPress:
1 – Log into the Admin Console for your installation of WordPress
2 – Click on “Options” at the top, and then “Permalinks” under that
3 – Modify your settings here. I use the “Data and Name based” option, which gives me an example URL of:
http://www.makingeasymoney.co.za/2006/03/18/sample-post/
I fully recommend doing this, and this is always one of the VERY first things I change when setting up my WordPress installation.
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Great advice on the urls, another good tip is to use great plugins like Ultimate Tag Warrior 3 and my SEO plugin which will optimize your title tags and meta tags information, even help with auto discovery of ALL your RSS feeds.
You can get it here WordPress SEO plugin
I’d set the post title in front of the date….
Here is another article about SEO for WordPress:
http://www.seo-portal.com/10-seo-tips-for-wordpress/2006/07/09/
That does actually make sense… I like the look of it.