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Amping up your WordPress Blog
This document provides tips for improving the SEO and performance of a WordPress blog. It recommends using SEO plugins, adding meta tags and keywords, optimizing content and titles, improving caching, managing plugins, and combating spam. General tips include structuring pages with proper HTML elements, using a sitemap, and hosting static files externally for faster load times.
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Amping up your WordPress Blog
- 1. “Amping up” yourWordPress blog Or, “Taking WordPress to 11”
- 2. SEO Call aduck a duck (<h1>, <ul>, etc) Google Sitemap plugin SEO Title plugin <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
- 3. <head> [...] <?phpif ( is_home() || is_singular() ) { echo '<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />'; } else { echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />'; } ?> [...] </head>
- 4. Content Keyword sprinklingDescriptive titles “If I wanted to find this post, what would I search for?”
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- 6. General Performance Staticfiles hosted on another domain/box CSS <link />ed in <head /> JS at the end of <body /> Optimize for a better user experience
- 7. Plugins Subscribe toComments Related Posts Clutter Free Akismet Spam Karma 2 Bad Behavior
- 8. Spam Management Liberaluse of the greylist (moderation list) Careful use of the blacklist Moderate on the fly vs en masse