At WordCamp Bulgaria I gave a quick tour of what real SEO is like in 4 steps:
1. be remarkable
2. optimize
3. engage your readers
4. measure and repeat
25. In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately
erodes your power.
If you know something very important, the way to get
power is by actually sharing it.
Joseph L. Badaracco
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Think about this one when you continue your blogging. True sharing is remarkable. Always.
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Books are judged by their cover: so are your posts, give them a proper title and description.
Realize what your title and description will look like in Google.
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Don’t be a monkey: write your meta descriptions yourself. But it’s even better to have a
monkey write them or not write one at all than to have All in one SEO generate one for you.
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Related posts plugins are nice. Internal linking in your posts is even better (from an SEO
perspective solely).
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Through all these cool plugins we often forget how to use the superbly useful internal stuff in
WordPress: Categories, Tags and custom taxonomies. Do your categories still match the blog
you have today? http://yoast.com/wordpress/simple-taxonomies/
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You can’t expect a search engine nor a user to click on more more than 3 times... Use for
instance a plugin like WP PageNavi.
40. Use Pingdom, or another tool to track uptime,
but be the first to know when your blog is down and FIX IT.
41. Unless your 404 page looks like this, I don’t want to see it. Use John Godley’s Redirection
plugin and track and fix them.
42. One part of WordPress sucks: search. Implement a Google Custom search engine to create a
proper search experience, then start tracking your internal search: what are people searching
for? Are they finding that? Can / should they expect that on your site?
46. If your readers understand what RSS is, the button can’t be big enough. If they don’t know
what it is, leave it out entirely!
47. So we want to get those readers raving about us right?
48. A thank you page is the perfect moment to let people refer your site and mailing list to a
friend or their Twitter followers: “I just signed up for Yoast.com’s newsletter, you should too!”