Choose the right keywords: This is always the key to successful SEO, it is worth spending time at the outset to review the competition and be aware of the amount of work it will take to rank for the chosen keywords.

Use an SEO friendly Theme: Many themes are designed to look good rather than support WordPress SEO. It is therefore advisable to choose a theme that satisfies both, even if this does mean looking at premium (paid for) themes.

Set Permalinks: Make sure that the Permalinks are set to “%postname%” which means that the post/page title will appear in the URL. For WordPress SEO purposes this is much better than the default setting which is to use a number.

Create Sitemap: Create a site map for the search engines. A plugin like “Google XML Sitemaps” makes this easy.

Install the “All In One SEO Pack” plugin: This is the best known and most popular WordPress SEO plugin. It improves WordPress SEO in a number of ways and most users will be happy with its default settings. What you do need to do is enter a title, description and keywords for the homepage. These will be shown on the search results when the link is to the blog rather than an individual page or post and should entice people to click on your entry. Other functions of this WordPress SEO plugin include:

• Giving control over how titles are displayed
• Controlling duplicate content by preventing it being indexed
• Allowing entry of meta data for each page post

On Each Page/Post:

• Write a compelling title including a keyword.
• Edit the URL as necessary. If your title is long, shorten the URL making sure to keep the keyword.
• Use the keyword in all headings.
• Use the keyword throughout the content and particularly in the first sentence.
• Include a graphic and put the keyword as the ALT text.
• Write a good meta description.
• Have links to other pages/posts on your site.
• Include external links to authority sites in your niche. Be careful not to link to any site that Google may consider dubious as this can reflect on your site.

Producing search engine friendly content is really the key to WordPress SEO and you really need to check each page/post before publishing it. Fortunately you can install a plugin to do this for you.

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To change your WordPress Avatar:

You’ll need to sign up at http://www.gravatar.com with the email address that you’ve associated in your blog with your admin user account, and upload you image to gravatar.com.

Once you’ve done that your gravatar.com image will appear whenever you post on your own blog or on other WordPress blogs (if you put that email address into the mail field of the comment form at that other blog).

Presto!  Now everyone will know just how beautiful you are.  :)

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What plugins could you not live without, and why?

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Author: Ajay Matharu

Tweet Old Posts is a plugin designed to tweet your older posts to get more traffic.

Tweet Old Posts randomly picks your older post based on the interval specified by you. The primary function of this plugin is to promote older blog posts by tweeting about them and getting more traffic.

Some of the options you can configure for the Tweet Old Posts plugins are,

v1.1

Twitter Username & Password – Using this twitter account credentials plugin will tweet.

Minimum interval between tweets – allows you to determine how often the plugin will automatically choose and tweet a blog post for you.

Randomness interval – This is a contributing factor in minimum interval so that posts are randomly chosen and tweeted from your blog.

Minimum age of post to be eligible for tweet – This allows you to set how old your post should be in order to be eligible for the tweet.

Categories to omit from tweets – This will protect posts from the selected categories from being tweeted.

Get the plugin here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-old-post/

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