seo-tutorial-for-wordpress-ranking-success-part-1-keywords

Today is the start of a 3 part tutorial to get your wordpress rank higher up on google’s radar. I’m not going to write pages and pages of nonsense and then make you sign up for the last tutorial, I’m doing this because so far, there’s a whole bunch of blogs on SEO but non of them actually tell you what to do.


Lets Begin: Keywords

Okay, so you have a wordpress blog. You know how it works and you know how to write and edit posts. You might have even been posting for years but unless you understand how to use keywords correctly, your posts wont ever be read. For each post you need a keyword heavy title. Now what I mean by that is your post title needs to be in Google language, not your native tongue. For example: I could have written this current post’s title as “Get 3 awesome lessons on SEO that really work and will get your rank up high in Google” but I didn’t for a reason. This reason is keyword density.


Keyword density

Google gives you a score based on a few things on your page which we will get to but the main one is Keyword Density. This is simple: If you want to score high for keyword density, get rid of all those useless in between words and just put in the necessary “Keywords”. Get it? That’s how I ended up with “SEO Tutorial for WordPress Ranking Success”. This is most important for titles but it doesn’t stop there; Google even reads all the text on your page and gives that a score based on keyword density. Obviously you need your content to be readable but why not drop in some keywords to do with SEO tips for wordpress ranking success. See what I did there?


Keywords and Tags in WordPress

Alright, so we have our keyword filled title (by the way, don’t go making the title too long and filling it with any keyword you can think of, Google knows all and will put you in a un-liked list). Now lets think about our tags and keywords. Later on in Part 3 we will set up an plug in called Headspace 2 to handle our SEO meta data and part of this will be using our wordpress tags as our page keyword meta data. So find 10 keywords that will be most powerful (a keyword can be more than 1 word.) and separate them with comas. You can even use wordpress to suggest tags based on your content!


Whats next?

In part 2, we will look at a Firefox plug in called SenSEO and I will show you how to use it to find the SEO holes in your page and how to fix them. This is a step not to be missed. Using senSEO we can see what Google see’s and therefore tweak our page to make Google love us. I hope you enjoyed part 1, stay tuned for part 2.