One of the reasons that wordpress is such a popular blogging platform is that it is seo friendly. WordPress has built in automatic pinging. This means you paste in your ping list of choice and WordPress will automatically use that list to ping the search engines. Quite simply wordpress notifies the search engines when you have made a new post. This is a real time saver because you do not have to do it manually and in addition, you have the benefit of notifying the search engines about your new content.

One of the advantages of using WordPress is using the in built category structure that allows you to have a main category and a child category to post your content to. You will find that by taking advantage of this structure to name your categories as your keywords will give you great benefits with the search engines. Once you have done that use your related keywords for posts.

Using plugins with WordPress enhances the core functions. One plugin that you should use is a good seo plugin. There are a number of seo plugins available for free and it is important to find the one that will serve your needs the best.

By using a seo plugin you avoid having to add your keywords and important meta data using cumbersome code. Most seo plugins allow you to add keywords, description and also allow you to choose whether the post should be indexed or followed. This is also important for proper long term seo rankings. Most people don’t spend enough time on their on page seo and in particular the description of their site. This section should work like an advertisement and entice a visitor to click through your link when your site is returned in the organic search results.

On page seo is very important for search results but you should not forget the benefits of good link building practices to build up your off page seo. Ideally, you will have a strategy to work these things together to ensure a site where all pages are ranked and indexed by the search engines. A good idea is to have a link building plan for all sites that you create so that you always can work through your checklist when setting up a site.

You will also find that if you select a wordpress theme that has in built seo that you will have less to worry about in terms of the search engines. You will find that the theme already is optimized for the search engines by including h1 and h2 tags in all the right places where you can benefit the most.

If you have a wordpress blog one of the things that you should do is make sure you have good on page seo in place. Read these quick wordpress seo tips by Leanne King for WordPress users