Optimising a wp site

[loubycee]

Hiya

Aside from content, how would you normally optimise a wordpress site if you can't access the code eg meta tags and the basic stuff, would it be more advisable to access it via ftp and edit from there?

thanks

 

[OldWelshGuy]

if the WP installation is self hosted then you use a plugin I would suggest you use http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/ it is a fantastic plugin.

 

[amhsolutions]

Use plugins for your seo, create different titles and descriptions for each page. make sure you use H1 H2 H3 H4 tags, optimise your images with alt text.

Underline keywords, Itallize keywords, Bold Keywords,

Make sure its all good content for the reader.

 

[Nuno]

Use any of the biggie SEO plugins, (All in One Seo, Yoast, Headspace2 being just 3 of them), but if you are at the start of the learning curve try using this at the same time: Bloggerhigh SEO; basically it's only a fancy checklist, but it's a good starting place.

 

[fisicx]

Aside from content, how would you normally optimise a wordpress site if you can't access the code eg meta tags and the basic stuff, would it be more advisable to access it via ftp and edit from there?

Install the All in one SEO plugin (or others) and edit the page titles/metas from there. All other SEO tasks are the same as any other site.

 

[RevaxMedia]

Hiya

Aside from content, how would you normally optimise a wordpress site if you can't access the code eg meta tags and the basic stuff, would it be more advisable to access it via ftp and edit from there?

thanks

There are loads of SEO tools for Wordpress, I would recomend OWG's we use that one and it works fine, you can edit pretty much everything on-site.

 

[jamesgodwin]

I recommend the all in one seo plugin. Its also a good idea to make your url's seo friendly, this would mean going into Wordpress admin->settings->permalinks and then select the custom structure and add this /%category%/%postname%

 

[Jose Jimenez]

Check YouTube as there are lots of videos to walk you through settings and how to use the plugins. I've used Yoast and All in One and, they are both great. Yoast has more features and may be a bit overwhelming at first but All In One is still a very good option.

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

if the WP installation is self hosted then you use a plugin I would suggest you use http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/ it is a fantastic plugin.

How does that compare with All-In-One-SEO pack?

 

[Faevilangel]

How does that compare with All-In-One-SEO pack?

ten times better, goes into much more detail then AIO and is built by a WP god, Yoast has built loads of WP plugins include GA for WP and Yoast Breadcrumsb (many more here)

 

[seanbotha]

+1 for the Yoast SEO for Wordpress plugin, wouldn't touch any of the others. Latest update includes new Social features, I expect this will be an area which increasingly gets developed. The developer Joost also features tons of helpful articles on yoast.com

 

[The4thMarketeer]

I have just had my URL kicked back at me because I have only just joined. I have a 20 min WP optimisation video that will prob be right up your street.

If you want it you'll have to PM me (I'm 13 posts short of freedom! ;p)

Lemme know

 

[DanielMilstein]

There are hundreds of plugins that are available that help you achieving proper and effective on-page SEO for WP sites, you can use them if you are unable to access the Meta tags section of your WP site, you can use it via FTP, but it will be a long and tedious process

 

[SGI marketing]

we found the plugin SEO vibe and all in one SEO really good

 

[mickletonyoung]

+1 for the Yoast SEO for Wordpress plugin

+2 here. Having tried several others Yoast seems pretty much as effective as any SEO WP plug in available. Nice and simple to use too.


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[mickeym]

If you're using your own template then add meta tags into the template pages.

Make sure your permalinks are setup correctly too, I find that using %category%/%postname% works best for me.

 

[Websitehandyman]

Make sure you nofollow parts of your site you don't want indexed. By default WP set nofollow on links within pages but depending on how you do your navigation and what content you use on your site keeping a clean selection of index-able pages help a great deal I've found.

I'm not so sure how much of a benefit %category%postname% I sometimes prefer just %postname% as often some posts can have long titles.

If you are also using category and title in the description field, title field. You have to be carefull if you really want good meta that will be friendly in google.