Index Faster in Google with Word Press

Posted on September 22, 2007
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Many times I’ll install WordPress where each instance requires several common plug-ins for effective blogging, like the site-map tool, SEO Title Tags, permalinks, custom htaccess for dealing with canonical url’s, sef and other things like image caching and the list goes on. So, depending on the projects focus or industry, I keep several pre-modded and pre-configured versions of WordPress in inventory to do what would normally be a two to three hour process and reduce it to about 45 minutes. WordPress realistically only takes about 5 minutes to install but as any WordPress professional knows, the configuration and setup of other elements of design can take many hours if good results are expected. Since my #1 SEO suggestion to site owners is a blog, It makes sense for me to keep and maintain up to date versions of the tools I work with. What is truly rewarding is not only the frequency in which I’m hired to do these things but the testimonials I receive after very short periods of time where clients index almost overnight.

Testimonials are important but I rarely publish them even though I get some impressive examples sent to me by email. Recently after installing a WordPress blog for a client who had previously been using the Joomla blog feature, he discovered to his surprise that his site went from almost no rank or position to being in the top 20 in just a few days. Many would argue that there are some factors that were already in place to achieve such results and although I rarely reveal what I know regarding SEO, that argument is almost moot.

Many times what I’ve experienced playing a large role is the configuration of the blog and the way the little things for SEO are addressed among some proprietary features I install for all clients. Of these proprietary features, most of them have to do with SEO optimization and a few for load speed which may include AJAX on a very small scale. But I would never say I have SEO fully figured out and I’m not bold enough to declare someone else’s methods ineffective as SE’s like Google are the teacher, not a student, and many times we get schooled and humbled.

Effective indexing with Google or other SE’s with WordPress is really not as “luck of the draw” as some would tend to think. Having all the cards in hand doesn’t necessarily mean anything if the rules change and as most of us know who have been doing this long enough SE’s change the rules without notice. But what can you do to help your blog along?

Top or Best Word Press (WordPress) Plug-ins for Search Engine Optimization

As I’ve mentioned in my other blogs and design articles, I maintain about 5 different variants of WordPress in my inventory all pre-modded and pre-configured for rapid development of blogs. In each and every variant I keep in inventory I include 6 fundamental plugins and characteristics of the installers to start as a foundation for good SEO practices in blog development. Here is my list.

Now a few others didn’t make my standard install list only because I find I need to alter or change things with frequency but are none the less ideal for SEO. Of those other plug-ins, I usually include one of the assortment of Meta Tag plug-ins like the one from Brandon Buttars or the g-loaded version which I maintain a modified version for my own use. There are also benefits in using other feed link tools like feedburner among as well as using RSS tools which I usually customize on a per site basis.

Of all the sites I’ve built that use a blog only a small handful fail to index quickly. Coupled with a half dozen proprietary modifications to WordPress I perform, WordPress comes out of box ready to assist any site in ranking quickly for search engine results.

In the resource section of my site I’ll be adding the tutorials on this very subject and I’ll include a few of our proprietary modifications for your use. I’ll also walk you through the permalinks techniques we use to keep things nice and clean.

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