Well, okay.. I am a bit behind on my blog postings. In my defense, I have been launching a new product that has occupied my time pretty exclusively for the last two months. Today, it’s done though. Ultimate Guide to Wordpress Plugins was released into the wild. Can I get an *Amen*?

And since it focuses on two major aspects of blogging (search engine optimization and the visitor experience), I figured it would be okay to mention it today, and pull a couple of the plugins right from those pages.

Hopefully, by now you realize that blogging for your business, regardless of what industry you are in, is an effective way to connect with potential clients. Search engine optimization puts you in front of those potential customers, by placing your link in the *search results* when they are looking for something on Google (or Yahoo, MSN, Live, etc).

So, how exactly do you get your blog post to appear in those results?

With Wordpress, you have quite a few options. So many in fact, I can’t do them justice in one blog post. But I will cover a couple of the major one’s, All In One SEO Pack and Robots Meta.

All In One SEO Pack

Beautiful in it’s simplicity, All In One SEO Pack really is steroids for your blog’s SEO. By asking for an additional Title, Description and set of keywords on the Post New screen, it gathers the info necessary to embed into the web page (where only the spiders and super geeks look), the meta tags necessary to help Google place your content with the right keywords.

Getting into the habit of completing these extra fields will take a little time and effort, but the results are worth it. For example, I created a blog post recently to answer a question on what an example signature line for a forum would look like. I created the post, completed the All In One SEO Pack fields and published. 40 minutes later, it was on the first page of Google for the keyword *example signature line*.

They won’t all be that easy, but used consistently, your content will move from the back pages of Google, out into the light of day where folks can find you.

Robots Meta

There’s no easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages, unless of course, when you install Robots Meta. (Remember, I am all about the right tool for the job!) Like All in one SEO Pack, this one add’s some new features to your Post New feature. It allows you to *sculpt* the SEO on your site by telling Google (and others) exactly HOW to distribute the *link juice*.

Here’s an example, having your tags listed in a tag cloud on your main page is great for visitors, but bleeds off some of your ranking, unless you tell the search engines to NOT FOLLOW the links listed there. Robots Meta let’s you setup some basic rules, and also provides a direct way to impact the follow/nofollow rules for each page or post.

Taken together, these two plugins will do a lot for your search engine optimization, but they are just the start. SEO is a process (I think I mentioned that before). It’s an ONGOING process. It’s something you will keep an eye on for as long as you have your blog so start making the process friendly for yourself. Start that by getting the right tool for the job at hand.

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The term search engine optimization (SEO) refers to the process of modifying and marketing a website for top search engine position. It is a set of methodologies aimed at improving the visibility of a website in the organic results obtained when a user surfs the internet for some information. In order to get top search engine position among your competitors, you have to make the search engines like your website. So, go on reading to learn how.

Never do this:

Unfortunately, most of the newbie do this mistake as they think just submitting their website to the search engines would automatically lead to get some how decent website rankings. The truth is website submission associated with website optimization is your right step if you are willing to get the top search engine position and later drive massive traffic to your website.

The alternative way to target decent website rankings is to know the techniques and criteria by which a search engine ranks the websites. Then, implementing these techniques on your website would do the job for you. As an example, keyword density is an important factor to consider receiving a decent rank for your website.

Be Ready to Master Your SEO Trip in 5 Simple Steps:

1. The first significant issue to get top search engine position is to take care of your keyword density. Briefly, your target keyword must be 1-3% of your article text.

2. The proper usage of meta tags is a significant issue to get a decent placement and leads to increase web traffic. Make your description meta tag short, and key word rich. Additionally, include your keywords in the title meta tag.

3. Do not forget to choose a domain name for your website that is short, easy to remember, and well descriptive as well. In addition, avoid this free website hosting accounts as they would never help you to get high website ranking.

4. You want to continually review and evaluate what you have done in the regard of search engine rankings. Because the Internet is ever changing, you will want to make sure that your lucrative efforts keep pace with the most recent strategies.

5. When it comes to website optimization, you need to care about fresh and unique content by adding new articles to your website regularly. This would ping the search engines that your website offers fresh and up to date knowledge which would increase your ranking.

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Today’s post is a guest spot by author and SEO consultant Sam Kern. You can see more from him on his Articles Base profile by clicking his name.

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Selecting the right keywords for a website is the key to top ranking on search engines. If the wrong keywords are optimized, there is very little chance of them achieving top placement. So much so that some SEO consultants advise to use the chosen keyword in the actual domain name. If a keyword is searched thousands of times a day in Overture, then most of time the competition you will have to outrank will be extremely fierce. In order to find about less competitive keywords that can still generate a good traffic to your website, you will need to work out the KEI - Keyword Effectiveness Index.

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