Wordpress SEO Tips

  1. Remove » from your Wordpress title
    Change calls to wp_title() to wp_title(”).  Depending on your wordpress theme, you may also want to move  the wp_title to be right after the <title> start tag

  2. Add noindex to Archives to Avoid duplicate content issues.  An easy hack is to add the following code into your header.php file.
    <?php if(is_archive()){ ?><meta name="robots" content="noindex"><?php } ?>
  3. Use rel=nofollow in Anchor tagsNot all content is created equally use rel=nofollow when linking to unimportant content on your own site.  Such as Terms of Use, Privacy policy pages.

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4 Responses to “Wordpress SEO Tips”

  1. latif@debt reduction says:
    August 31, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    I thought it keeps archive to noindex, like blogger does. This is important issue, thanks for addressing it!
    Nice tips.

  2. David says:
    May 15, 2009 at 9:15 am

    It is very important to distinguish what you want to use the no follow option on.

  3. james says:
    September 16, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    why not use the AIOSEO plugin? AIOSEO=All In One SEO plugin for wordpress. ;)

  4. admin says:
    September 17, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    James, thanks. Yeah the All In One SEO plugin is great; we use it on all our sites. It makes it real easy to manage the titles, meta keywords and descriptions.

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