SEO is quite an involved process and so cannot just be acheived by installing a plugin. I’d recommend reading Shaun @ HoboWeb’s beginner’s guide to SEO (download the e-books too), that’s a great guide for beginners.
As you learn, you’ll find that SEO covers two disciplines: getting good links to your pages and making sure your site is easily understood by search engines. To acheive the latter, you’ll need a Wordpress Theme that has been built with SEO in mind. I recommend the Thesis Theme for this, it costs a few dollars and needs customisation after being installed but I don’t think it can be beaten for on-page SEO.
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November 16th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
i have been using Wordpress for 2 years but i still dont know how to do SEO using Wordpress, is there an SEO pluggin for Wordpress?.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Matt,
SEO is quite an involved process and so cannot just be acheived by installing a plugin. I’d recommend reading Shaun @ HoboWeb’s beginner’s guide to SEO (download the e-books too), that’s a great guide for beginners.
As you learn, you’ll find that SEO covers two disciplines: getting good links to your pages and making sure your site is easily understood by search engines. To acheive the latter, you’ll need a Wordpress Theme that has been built with SEO in mind. I recommend the Thesis Theme for this, it costs a few dollars and needs customisation after being installed but I don’t think it can be beaten for on-page SEO.