Wordpress is term that we mostly here from bloggers these days as it is one of the blogging platform
. Even though wordpress is most user friendly, but some wordpress installations block search engines from crawling by default. Hence it is important to make sure you deactivate such installations before you start optimizing your blog.
Here are some tips that any wordpress bloggers must take care.
Are your blogs comments enabled? Some wordpress bloggers restrict comments to only registered users or disable comments totally. To enable comments section, follow these steps.
*Login to your wordpress admin section.
*Click on the options tab in the menu bar.
*If the option "users register or login to comment" section is enabled, uncheck it and click on the discussion tab of the submenu bar.
Ensure you blog have topic to write on. Never host a blog that allows you to write on anything like cars, movies, music, finance health etc. if you are following such style then it is wrong way to do it because it annoys some of the readers. For this reason make sure to write a blog on clear topic or niche.
Coding according to standards will give you benefit in terms of search engine rankings. It means coding errors and content errors can lead to misinterpretation by search engines or visitors such as poorly written plugins or themes.
Using images in your post will help you in grabbing attention and retention of your visitors. Images also give an opportunity to use alt, title attributes and filenames and place keywords rich text in attributes gives the added advantage to your blogs visibility.
Use of header tag appropriately can help in if the
*Blog title or the main niche keyword should be placed in H1 tag
*Your sub-title of the blog is keyword rich and placed in H2 tag.
*Post titles should also go in H2 tags
*Sidebar titles should be in H3 tags.
Pinging is a kind of service that lets other knows about your blog updates and also notifies that your blog has been updated and invites bots to visit your blog. You can use service like ping-o-matic, which in turn pings other also. To make this task easier wordpress by default pings ping-o-matic once the post is published on your post or when ever it is updated. Make sure you do not update post after it get published because updating frequently leads to pinging by ping-o-matic and there is a risk of considering pining spammer.