Optimise your wordpress blog for search engines

Search engines are the biggest traffic generators for any website and you need to take care that your blog and blog posts are optimised for search engines. I have a few tips that you can use for your wordpress blog.

Title for your blog

Your blog will be having a title or a name. Make sure that your give the right information in the tagline box of your wordpress blog settings. This can be found under the option, General

SEO optimised templates

Make sure that your template is optimised for Search Engines, it follows all the W3 and CSS compliance.

When you are using WordPress, you can opt for a plugin which takes care of the Search Engine optimisation of your blog

SEF URL, Permalinks

You should activate the permalink option provided in the settings and the best will be the home URL

This is the permalink as far as the Google is concerned.

Using Tags

From WordPress 2.3 there is a built-in tags option. You can assign tags for every post you do and tags are somewhat like categories.

Using alt tags for images

Use the alt tags with 3-4 words describing the image you post

Use <h1> <h2> <h3> tags for headings or sub-headings

Create Robot.txt


User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content
Disallow: /tag
Disallow: /author
Disallow: /i/
Disallow: /f/
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /wget/
Disallow: /httpd/
Disallow: /c/
Disallow: /j/

# Google Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# Google AdSense
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.php
# Add Nonstandard extensions
Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml


If you know any tips, please post it here.