Aleyda Solis Blog | Web Enthusiast, Developer and Promoter

Search engine optimization has become a critical aspect that nowadays every blogger needs to take into account. Blogs have become a powerful promotion and monetization tool that require optimization to be able to rank well in the search engines and attract highly relevant traffic.

One of the advantages WordPress -the popular blog publishing system- offers thanks to its open source nature is the high amount of free themes and plugins of all types that improve and extend its fuctionalities, among them, its optimization capabilities.

Some of the most comprehensive WordPress SEO tips, guides and tutorials are:

• Official WordPress Search Engine Optimization Documentation
• WordPress SEO - The beginner’s guide
• WordPress and SEO
• SEO for WordPress - The Complete Guide
• Ultimate WordPress SEO Tips
• Simple Way to SEO your WordPress
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for WordPress
• WordPress SEO Masterclass for Competitive Niches
• Brilliant WordPress SEO Tips for Bloggers and Webmasters
• WordPress SEO: First Steps
• Twelve SEO Mistakes Most Bloggers Make
• The First 5 Essential Tweaks I Do in a WordPress Blog Installation

You can implement these guidelines by using useful plugins and themes, as:

• Wordpress SEO Plugins:
  • SEO Title Tag 2.1.3: Optimize your WordPress Title Tag!
  • All in One SEO Pack: Allows to optimize your title, description, keywords and avoid duplicate content.
  • wpSEO - More SEO for WordPress: Optimize your title, description and keywords!
  • SEO Plugins for WordPress list: A Graywolf’s SEO Blog list with Akismet, Dagon Design Sitemap Generator, Organizer, Feedburner Replacement, Google Sitemaps, Permalink Redirect, Search Pages and many others!
  • Optimal Title: Another plugin to optimize your WordPress title tag.
  • HeadSpace 2: An all-in-one plugin that manages meta-data and diverse SEO tasks, as: Titles, Tags, Keywords, page specific plugins, theme specific plugins and others.
  • WordPress SEO Plugins: A Search Engine Journal’s list with Optimal Title, Head Meta Description, Permalink Redirect and Sitemap Generator Plugin.
  • WordPress Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugins: A Sizlopedia’s list with SEO Title Tag, Optimal Title, All in One SEO Pack, Permalink Redirect, SEO WordPress, Parmalink Validator and others.
  • Best SEO Plugins for WordPress: A The Blog Joint’s list with Head Meta Description, Ultimate Tag Warrior, Google Sitemaps, Related Entries, SEO Title Tag, Landing Sites.
  • Essential SEO-Related Plugins for WordPress: A SEO Egghead’s list with Chicklet Creator, Wp-Email, Sociable, Google Sitemaps and WSYI-Wordpress.
  • WordPress Plugins needed to Optimize your Blog for Search Engines: A John TP’s list with Head Meta Descrition, SEO Title Tag, Ultimate Tag Warrior, All in one SEO Pack, Google Sitemaps Generator, Related Posts, and many others!
• Wordpress SEO Friendly Themes:
  • SEO WordPress Themes by Court’s Internet Marketing School
  • ProSense, An AdSense Ready SEO WordPress Theme by Dosh Dosh
  • 18 Adsense Optimized WordPress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings by Dosh Dosh
  • Five Free, Beautiful WordPress Themes to help your SEO by Findable Blogs
  • 101 Free SEO friendly wordpress themes - Pure Gold by Daily SEO Blog
  • WordPress Theme Blix with Google AdSense by morearnings.com
  • SEO Adsense Wordpress Theme by Pilkster
  • SEO WorPress Sandbox Theme by Ian Purton
  • Widgetized October Special WordPress Theme by 5ThirtyOne
  • SEO Wordpress Theme Ad Flex Niche by VK Labs

After reading some of the guides I have realized I still have to optimize my blog to avoid “link juice leak” and control my internal “link flow”!

Do you know about additional WordPress SEO resources I can include? Your contributions are always welcome!

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