Websites in WordPress

DIY SEO: Step 1 – Customize Your Permalink Structure

This is the third post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series.

A permalink is the URL of an individual blog post. To see what I’m talking about, click the title of any of your blog posts. What you’ll end up with is just that blog post, in its entirety, shown on that page. The address bar of your browser will reflect the URL (permalink) of that blog post.

You want your permalinks to make sense to both people and the search engines.

DIY SEO: Step 0 – Keyword Selection

photo credit: Matter = Energy This is the second post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series. Compile Your Keyword List Write down all the keywords from the list you generated using the Google AdWords Keyword Tool that have high search volumes and low advertiser competition. I won’t try to give you cutoffs or thresholds, because every market is different,…

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DIY SEO: Step By Step Instructions on SEO You Can Do Yourself Today

photo credit: Matter = Energy This is the first of a series of posts called DIY SEO (Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization): Step by Step Instructions on SEO You Can Do Yourself Today. While you could pay hundreds, even thousands, of dollars to an SEO company to optimize your site for the search engines, there is an awful lot of SEO…

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