There are millions of WordPress blogs on the internet, but the majority of them are not optimized for the search engines. This article explains 5 ways that you can make your WordPress blog more search engine friendly.

1. Make sure that your permalinks are set up optimally for search engine optimization – whenever you publish a blog post it will have a permanent URL known as a “permalink”. By default, WordPress permalink setting is not optimal, but you can easily edit the settings on the WordPress Dashboard menu, click on this, and then use the custom settings.domain.com/category/postname. This will mean that your blog post category and title will appear in the URL rather than a number.

2. Install the All in One Search Engine Optimization SEO Pack (or a another similar plugin) – the All in One SEO services Pack plugin allows you to add a custom title, meta description and keyword tags for your home page and blog posts.

3. Use Social Bookmarking services to bookmark each blog post – whenever you post to your blog use a social bookmarking service e.g. Digg or StumbleUpon. There are also services such as OnlyWire and SocialMarker that will let you submit your site to multiple bookmarking services at the same time. Social bookmarking can give you additional traffic to your blog, and give you a back link to your blog posts.

4. Optimizing your blog home page – this is your blog home page to get more traffic then any other normal web page. You can increase the number of visitors, even more by optimizing your home page. Pick 1-2 keyword phrases for your home page using a keyword research tool such as the Google AdWords keyword tool and choose one or two phrases that are related to your niche. Ideally, these phrases should be a few thousand dollars, the monthly search and competition, and should not be too harsh. To ensure that you include in the title tag, meta description, and the entire contents of your blog home page a permanent reference to these keyword phrases.

5. Install Google XML Sitemaps plug-in – This will not increase your search engine rankings, but there is a site map will help to ensure that the search engine index of all posts and your blog page. You can use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to create a sitemap for your blog map.

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