Someone with little tips did also before, but now, with new sitemaps ( www.yourname.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml all, as newbies a me, can use Gogle Webmasters Tool, a instrument very useful for all Bloggers. To submit our blog to that strument is easy
1) to have a Google’s account
2) submit our Url to Google search engines; after that Google will demand to us if we want submit our blog to Webmsters Tool: we’ll said: Yes!;
3) to verify our site, choose HTML file: we copy the name of file; we go to ‘write a new page; the title of new page will be the same name of file; : pubblish it. Control with Webmast Tools if it’s ok. Well now:
4) go to “sitemap” here choose submit sitemap: http://yourname.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml DONE! Now, after some Hours, after Google will read all our datas we can use the Google Webmasters Tools.… And the page pubblish with that bad title? I don’t know, but don’t delete it. I tip to you to make it private, but not more, for the moment….
PS: UPGRADE: Ok Now We said We don’t delete the page We created, because Google’s craws if doens’t find it said to us code 404 ( error )
A time, when a Blogger made that kind of post, others Bloggers sends a trakback. I’ll be very happy if someone will do it for Me. GoodBye From Italy to everyone.
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Submit a sitemap for WordPress Blog to Google Webmasters Tools
October 12th, 2009Basic SEO advices for WordPress Blogs
September 15th, 2009In this article we will introduce you important advices for SEO in your WordPress Blog. All you need to get started.
You should consider WordPress if you are serious about your blog. You get support and customisation by virtue of plug-ins that offers extra services which help interact with visitors. You also get a unique site.
No programming needed
With any website it is better to start off on a good footing, you don’t want to start changing software once you get going. WordPress offers ease of use for those who are not programmers. As soon as it is installed you can start blogging immediately. It is established and stable and offers a good variety of themes so you can change the look and feel to suit your tastes.
You are able to administer you own blog as the user management tools are fantastic. Once you have designed your blog you have the satisfaction of knowing you will never have to tear it apart and start again.
As an SEO tool WordPress is invaluable. You get linking structures already in place that are so necessary for spiders plus you get coding that contains no validation errors. You do however need to put in a little extra effort if you want to make your blog more SEO friendly.
SEO principles
• Firstly you need to ensure that your webpage URL’s reflect the name of your blog post. Don’t leave them as a post number. You can either write a rewrite rule into your .htaccess file or you can use the permalinks that come with WordPress. When asked about your custom structure you simply type “/index.php/%postname%”.
• Change the order of your page title so that your blog post name appears before either the name or the date of your blog. Everyone practicing SEO should know that the very first words in your title carry weight. They are what catch both readers and spider’s attention. To do this you need to swap the order of your PHP tags so that the wp_title appears before bloginfo. This is done by editing the header.php file.
• If you find that your blog entry title has been automatically inserted into a tag or your blog name is in the tag you can edit them in single.php and in header.php. You have the choice of choosing a format but it is possibly best to swap your blog name for an image. This way you will be making the most of your header tags.
• Avoid duplicate content issues by allowing spiders to follow links but not list them on the index. To do this you need to use “index,nofollow” tags on tag pages, category pages or archive pages. WordPress offers plugs-ins which makes this a simple process.
• You need to pay attention to your linking structure. Your blog needs to be accessible by the fewest clicks possible. This means you need to remove unnecessary links and pages. WordPress offers a plug-in called pagination that will help with this.
WordPress as a Blog platform
WordPress is open source. It offers a high level of security, personalisation and flexibility. You can customise your site to suit your niche audience with its host of themes, plug-ins and applications. You need never worry about the dreaded “Your account has been suspended/deleted” message again.
SEO Optimization for your WordPress Blog
September 9th, 2009Breadcrumbs
You’ll want to add breadcrumbs to your single posts and pages. Breadcrumbs are the links, usually above the title post, that look like “Home > Articles > WordPress SEO“. They are good for two things:
- They allow your users to easily navigate your site.
- They allow search engines to determine the structure of your site more easily.
These breadcrumbs should link back to the homepage, and the category the post is in. If the post is in multiple categories it should pick one. For that to work, adapt single.php and page.php in your theme, and use my breadcrumb plugin.
Headings
Although most themes for WordPress get this right, make sure your post title is an <h1>, and nothing else. Your blog’s name should only be an <h1> on your frontpage, and on single, post, and category pages, it should be no more than an <h3>.
These are easy to edit in the post.php and page.php templates. To learn more about why proper headings are important read this article on Semantic HTML and SEO.
Clean up your code
All that javascript and CSS you might have in your template files, move that to external javascripts and css files, and keep your templates clean, as they’re not doing your WordPress SEO any good. This makes sure your users can cache those files on first load, and search engines don’t have to download them most of the time.
Aim for speed
A very important factor in how many pages a search engine will spider on your blog each day, is how speedy your blog loads. You can do two things to increase the speed of your WordPress.
- Optimize the template to do as small an amount of database calls as necessary. I’ve highlighted how to do this in my post about speeding up WordPress.
- Install a caching plugin. I highly recommend WP-Super-Cache, which is a bit of work to set up, but that should make your blog an awful lot faster.
Also, be aware that underpaying for hosting, is not wise. If you actually want to succeed with your link-bait actions, and want your blog to sustain high loads, go for a good hosting package. I’ve recently switched to WestHost myself, and they’ve proven to be better than anything I’ve ever seen in hosting.
Rethink that Sidebar
Do you really need to link out to all your buddies in your blogroll site wide? Or is it perhaps wiser to just do that on your front page? Google and other search engines these days heavily discount site wide links, so you’re not really doing your friends any more favor by giving them that site wide link, nor are you helping yourself: you’re allowing your visitors to get out of your site everywhere, when you actually want them to browse around a bit.
The same goes for the search engines: on single post pages, these links aren’t necessarily related to the topic at hand, and thus aren’t helping you at all. Thus: get rid of them. There are probably more widgets like these that only make sense on the homepage, and others that you’d only want on sub pages.
Some day you will probably be able to change this from inside WordPress, right now it forces you to either use two sidebars, one on the homepage and one on sub pages, or write specific plugins.
