A WordPress SEO Beginner’s Guide

I was told about a post over on Joost de Valk’s SEO blog that has a good starting point on what someone who is a beginner in SEO and who uses WordPress should do to their blog.

I won’t spend time going into all of the points made, but I will say that the things that are recommended are really great tips, and everyone should do them to their template / blog.

I even found some things I have over looked on my blog, and I am now taking the time to go in and make the changes and see what happens with my SEO numbers.

I like that with most of the recommendations that are made, all you need to do is install a plug-in and you are up and going. That said, there are some tips that involve you digging into the code to make some changes. I still recommend that they get done, so if you do not feel like you have the skills to do them, please do not try it. There is a chance that if you try it and delete or change things that you should not you could break your install of WordPress.

So as I have said before on this subject, if you do not feel like you can dig into the code, then please hire someone who is qualified to do it. So please contact me or someone else before you try it.

As I go through and add the things from this into my blog, I will be writing more and more posts that talk about not only the things in the guide, but also more SEO techniques that everyone should be doing to their blog.