WordPress is popular for its web 2.0 capabilities often used as a blog publishing tool powered by PHP and MySQL. A lot of WordPress blogs are up on the net but most of them are not optimized for search engines most especially Google. Besides, it is never too late to start optimizing your website powered by WordPress blogs. Here are the 7 areas you need to prioritize for your WordPress blog to improve search engine ranking.

1. Permalinks

Make sure that the settings of your blog’s permalinks are readable. Permalink refers to the permanent link or permanent URL of every blog post. If you like to change the default permalink, go to Settings then Permalinks in the WordPress Dashboard. Make your permalink consisted of the category and the post name.

2. All in One SEO Pack – WordPress Plugin

Using all in one SEO pack, you are capable of making customized meta keyword and meta description tags of your home page and blog posts.

3. Long Tail SEO

Blog posts must be optimized for long tail keywords for there is a high possibility of acquiring good traffic since searchers today are more specific with their searches.

4. Social Bookmarking

Every post in your blog must be submitted to popular social bookmarking sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon. With social bookmarking, your blog will increase its traffic and the number of your backlinks is incremented.

5. Homepage of your WordPress Blog

Optimize the homepage of your blog more than any web pages. Select at least two less popular keyword phrases related to you niche. Make sure to mention the keyword phrases in the title tag, meta description and of course in the content of your blog.

6. Google XML Sitemap – WordPress Plugin

This tool helps you to easily generate an up-to-date sitemap in order for the posts and pages of your blog to be indexed immediately.

7. Link Building

Building lot of backlinks for your blog is one of the greatest ways to improve search engine ranking. Many methods are used to build links such as article marketing, directory submission, blog commenting, press releases, link exchange, social bookmarking and forum posting.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. People from the World Wide Web make use of search engine optimization to be able to have their websites rank high with the keywords they chose. Studies show that searchers most likely rely on the first page results.

Why only 7? Because with 10 you might get bored and 5 tips are not enough. Listed below are 7 useful tips for newbies to fully know search engine optimization.

1. Title

Always remember to put your keywords within the title of your blogs.

2. Content

Creating quality content is one significant factor in SEO. Fresh and full of information content gives integrity to your site. One of the latest trends nowadays is keyword hijacking. In view of the fact that many companies are up on the World Wide Web, those on the same niche get to have the same target keywords.

3. Link Building

Building links for your website is very exciting. Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, Plurk, Multiply, Tumblr and others can be used.

4. Keyword

In your blog content, mention your keywords. Professional bloggers recommend to turn the text into bold the keyword so that Google spiders will be able to read your blog entry faster. The quicker the Google spiders read your blog, the better position it will get in the search engine results page.

5. Article Submission

Social bookmarking sites can help your blogs to be indexed quicker in the search engines. Social bookmarks drive great traffic. Don’t do spamming because Google penalize websites by removing from index and putting into sandbox. Submit your articles with links pointing to your site to article submission sites like Ezinearticles.com, Buzzle.com and many more.

6. Blog

Try to write articles that captures the interest of the majority of your readers. Write blogs about controversial and recent events.

7. Web Design

Last of all, optimize your website design. There are varieties of downloadable themes or you can create one. Your website will be easily indexed if your web design is search engine friendly. Websites and blogs with applied quality SEO have a long way to go.

Last February 9, 2010, Google released Google Buzz. According to Wikipedia, it is a social networking site and messaging tool, designed to integrate Google’s web-based email program, Gmail. Will Google Buzz be good for search engine optimization?

Google Index and Keyword Research

Data from Buzz are never disregarded by Google when it comes to indexing, absolutely. Thus, for fast indexing, post your new web page immediately. Buzzzy.com is used to search current popular keywords as a third party search engine of Google Buzz.

Branding and Building Links

Google Buzz does not use “nofollow” for Google wants to be taken away from a past issue like this. Google failed to index most of the links these days. Did you know that the links in Twitter today are nofollow? Personal branding is easy with the recent innovation of Google. It’s better to intellectually and properly post your buzzes for Buzz is directly connected to your Google Profile. People may forget what you posted in Twitter, but with Buzz, it can be brought up since the recent comments are always on top of all.

Content Creation and Microblogging

You can repost blogs that are already published on other sites via Google Reader. It may seem unethical, but will be illicit if Google enforce that procedure? Google Buzz is compared most if the time with the likes of Twitter and Facebook to the types of Tumblr and Posterous. We know that Tumblr and Posterous are better but Google is way bigger. Why pick microblogging when you can have almost all with Google Buzz?

Multi-Platform Publishing

If you use Google Buzz, you can send multiple contents. Forty-four days after release, the platform can collaborate with other services like Ping.fm.

You can do many things with Buzz even if it doesn’t outperform Twitter, Tumblr and Friendfeed yet. Although Google Buzz is not yet able to execute all the best practices of search engine optimization, it is somehow good for quality SEO.

Alexa Rank is known to be the ranking system of Alexa.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com that measures the number of users visiting the website. Alexa Rank is very much applicable to blogs especially to those who have vast number of regular visitors.

Even if Alexa Rank is not the best way to measure the value of websites, it is mostly used for weighing the advertising cost in your blog via ad networks like Google AdSense, TextLinkAds and many more.

Improving Alexa Rank means creating quality contents frequently. For you to have the Alexa Rank you longed for, here are 9 useful tips for you. Who knows, your blog might be the next top 1.

1. Create an Alexa Account and Increase the Ratings of your Profile

After creating your account, verify you’re the owner of the blog through uploading a file or inserting a meta tag. Update the blog information through the self service tool. Try to rate and review your fellow bloggers to improve the reviews and ratings of your Alexa profile.

2. Install the Alexa Toolbar and Add the Alexa Widget in your Blog or Website

Alexa Rank is calculated based upon the number of visits with Alexa Rank Toolbar installed on the workstation used for viewing. So what are you waiting for? Download Alexa Toolbar and install on your pc, set your blog as home page. Add Alexa Widgets like Alexa Site Stats Button, Alexa Traffic Graph and Alexa Traffic Rank Button in your website.

3. Write a Blog about Alexa

Fellow bloggers usually search tips and ways to improve Alexa Rank. Thus, go and create one! If they want your tips, there’s a great possibility to have them link back to you. You can make a category named Alexa and then write extended tips and related articles.

4. Market Your Blog

If you have enough money, you can advertise your blog with Google AdWords. Lots of bloggers recommend ExactSeek.com since the results are related with Alexa Rank.

You can always use Search Engine Optimization or SEO and Social Media Marketing or SMM in which you will be spending time and effort to submit articles on social networking sites and social bookmarking sites if you don’t want to spend money.

5. Alexa Redirection Technique and Alexa Auto Surf

The redirection technique is a great help in increasing Alexa Rank by using http://redirect.alexa.com /redirect?www.yourblogname.com instead of http://www.yourblogname.com. Surfsieve.com, upmyrank.com and rankraise.com are some of the auto surf services offering guaranteed increase in Alexa Rank.

To improve the Alexa Rank of your blog or website, make use of organic methods. Paid listings like AdSense can’t provide long term solutions to improve your Alexa Rank. The white hat technique when rendered by an organic SEO company is the best way to increase your Alexa Rank in the long run.

Google’s been the most well-liked search engine for many years. Google is the most used search engine with a cut of 71.96% market share as of January 2, 2010 according to Hitwise.com. Google was followed by Yahoo with 14.81%, Bing with 8.96%, Ask.com (2.56%) and Aolsearch.com (0.96%) That is the main basis why most Quality SEO companies focus more on Google.

Entering the world of SEO is hard especially if you’re a newbie. When you try searching something about SEO to learn more, the search engine display a lot of results that you’ll rarely get the basics. Because of the fact that the essentials are sometimes not explained, a beginner can catch up within a week or two.

So if you want your website to rank first on Google, better learn the 11 basics first.

1. Algorithm – It is the mathematical formula used by the search engines in making a decision where to rank every web pages. The web pages are then listed on the SERPs or Search Engine Results Page in ranked order.

2. Anchor Text – This is the text that is visible in hyperlinks. Anchor text gives great opportunity for placement of the website’s keywords.

3. Crawlers/Spiders/Bots – Search engines use this program to crawl all the indexed websites to get the explicit information.

4. Filters – The one which is responsible for sorting out the unlikeable attributes on a web page is the filter. The ranking of a web page goes down when the filter detects malicious SEO techniques.

5. Inbound Links– Links to your site from other sites. Having these helps to establish the popularity of your site, this is why developing inbound links is often part of an SEO campaign.

6. Index – The store of information on websites that a search engine gains through trawling the net. A website may be removed from a search engine’s index if it is suspected of breaking the search engine’s rules.

7. Internal Links – The links within your site. The internal links of your website are good resource for your keywords.

8. Keywords – Keywords can be consisted of one, two or more words, making a phrase. When someone is searching on your topic or subject, keywords are the words that are likely to be searched. They can also be related to the search terms. Keywords are placed all over the website to let the search engine crawl and know that your site is applicable to that search. Having a range of keywords is good for a website.

9. Outbound Links – The links going to other sites from your sites. To grow your relationships with other people inside the Internet community is the purpose.

10. PageRank – The method used by Google to rank the web pages in its index. Google’s algorithm as mentioned above, calculates the PageRank from a number of factors like quality of inbound links.

11. Visitor – The one who views or simply visits your website. The most important among them all since you’ll be getting soon-to-be clients from them. They are also called user.

Through continuous usage of these best practices of quality SEO, your website will unquestionably win the Google search results.

Pacman (the game) celebrated its 30th anniversary last May 21 2010.

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This is the interface of my website from the day it was launched (September 13, 2009) until the last week of March.