wordpress - just how SEO friendly?

[essdeekay]

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Hello,

I've put a wordpress site up and have been writing and submitting articles.

I'm just wondering how SEO friendly wordpress is?

I have a few articles indexed in G but no traffic yet.

Si

[tbp]

Its fairly search engine friendly by default, if you use the nice urls. There are a lot of tweaks you can use though to make it more search engine friendly, just do a search in google, and you`ll find a number of tweaks and plugins documented.

[essdeekay]

Thanks tbp,

Anyone got any that they can recommend?

Cheers

Si

[ian-d]

There is a list available of url's you can paste into your admin control panel on wordpress (presuming you have the .org version) which will let hundreds of other blogs know you have updated yours. I was testing out wordpress on a brand new domain just to see what it was all about, and was bringing in very good SEO results within a couple of days, which must have been a result of the linking, as i was just talking complete crap to test it out!

(since realised i'm not a blogging type of person )

[tbp]

I did know the plugins, but switched to Drupal about 4 months ago, and so have forgotten the wordpress stuff! I`ve have a dig around in my site archives and let you know.

[lethal0r]

http://www.seologs.com/wordpress-dup...-content-cure/

[JamesEvansSEO]

Hi,

If you are serious about it, try the next plugins:

1. All in one SEO
2. Sociable
3. Do follow
4. Ultimate Tag Warrior
5. Google Sitemap Generator
6. Slim Stats (wp-slimstat)
7. WP-Amazon
8. Askimet (by default from version 2.0)
9. Adsense Deluxe
10. Viper's Video Quicktags
11. Sticky

Those are the best ones!

PS: If you have any questions or anyone needs help with the installation, let me know...

[Frostie]

I blogged about a few wordpress bits and pieces to help improve SEO. I'd also recommend Spam Karma2 for spam blocking, 1000x better than Askimet or whatever its called.

[3wdl]

The guide I wrote a while back has a list of some servers to ping.

http://www.3wdl.co.uk/2007/01/22/wordpress-seo-tips/

Cheers
J

[getvisible]

Mr Evans now that's a neat list!

Jimbo - when you're around mate could you give me a hand (guidance) with a new blog I'm doing - I think you know it already? I'm in meetings all day Tuesday but if you're around in the evening that'd be great. There's a tax free beer in it for yah ;-)

[JamesEvansSEO]

Hi!

Of course!, PMme later, I'll be happy to help you...

[3wdl]

Jimbo - when you're around mate could you give me a hand (guidance) with a new blog I'm doing - I think you know it already? I'm in meetings all day Tuesday but if you're around in the evening that'd be great. There's a tax free beer in it for yah ;-)

As you know mate, I'm always around for you... Will try and pop onto MSN tonight otherwise just drop me a tinkle on the mobile.

J

[Tom]

Hi James,

Just clicked on your banner and checked out your site, have to say I really like the design and looks like loads of interesting content, nice job Have to check out the WeeWars at some point too.

Cheers,
Tom

[zinc]

Hi,

If you are serious about it, try the next plugins:

1. All in one SEO
2. Sociable
3. Do follow
4. Ultimate Tag Warrior
5. Google Sitemap Generator
6. Slim Stats (wp-slimstat)
7. WP-Amazon
8. Askimet (by default from version 2.0)
9. Adsense Deluxe
10. Viper's Video Quicktags
11. Sticky

Those are the best ones!

PS: If you have any questions or anyone needs help with the installation, let me know...

I don't use all of these but can vouche for Tag Warrior, Askimet, sociable, all in one SEO, google sitemap generator and Adsense Delux...

oops nearly all of them

Also a nice list here: http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/seo-plugins-for-wordpress/

Nice post James