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WordPress blogs perform pretty well in search engines. Even out of the box and with just a few posts some blogs get high ranking and appear in search results.  Although WP blogs seems to be liked by Google and the main search engines there still some fine settings and things to be done for achieving higher visibility in search results. With little efforts and in some easy steps you can get better results and turn the work with your WP blog in real pleasure and get more visitors.

There are several simple rules that are of great importance for WordPress search engine optimization. This tips, of course, do not refer to SEO experts but for bloggers who want to improve their blog’s appearance in Search Engine results. Here they are:

• Create a Sitemap
• Permalinks
• Quality internal and external links
• Title and Meta Tags
• Navigation
• Design
• Content

Sitemap

It provides the search engines with very important information about your site. The sitemap tells the search engines when a new page or post is added or when you update your content or get new comments. The sitemap is vital for blogs, especially for those with a lot of content and articles as the often do not contain internal linking and could appear only within search.

Permalinks

WordPress is set by default to create links for each new post that look like this: http://yourblog.com/?p=1234. But it can be used for creating more intuitive URLs where the article index is replaced with the category name and the post title. It looks something like this: http://yourblog.com/category-name/article-or-post-title/.

Quality Internal and External Links

The number of sites that link to your blog is as important as the quality and the page rank of these sites. For sure the links coming from sites with relevant theme to those of your blog weight more.

Title and Meta Tags

Here the rule is quite simple. We should keep the titles clean and short and to use as many as possible relevant tags in the tag field. It’s smart to use tags that could be found in the article and its title. The search engines measure the importance of a post by looking at the HTML tags in it.

Navigation

Easy and simple navigation from and to your home page, dynamic categories and category rows helps the visitors to easily review your content. This also helps the search engines. Clear and properly formatted pages and titles are very important for appearance in search results, especially in Google that uses the titles as text to display in search results.

Design

There is really a great variety of free WordPress themes. But it is good for you to avoid sponsored themes. They are free but many other blogs will look just like yours and they usually contain sponsored links leasing to third party sites. This usually results in no harm for your site but it helps third parties and such SEO tricks could result in Google penalties and to decrease your results in searches.

Allowing the comments is also very useful. It helps adding fresh content to your blog and to get new ides for posts and articles. It also makes visitors turn back more often to track the discussion. Use images – this makes the posts more attractive and with the appropriate description of the image you can appear and in image searches. Integrate social media, adding a few buttons like Digg will help your visitors who like an article to promote it in social networks. The social networks can bring you a lot of new visitors, so use them smart.

These are the vital steps that should be made to improve your blog visibility within search results. Of course these is not all that could be done for WordPress SEO but these basic steps always provide good results. The sole WorsPress CMS is pretty well optimized. This saves a lot of work and efforts that’s why we think WP is great and customized a special WordPress blog web hosting plan priced at $2.99/mo. This is special service designed for WordPress website owners that provides customized software environment and guarantees high quality and reliability.