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Write WordPress Blog Posts That Top The Search Engines

Once a self-hosted WordPress blog is setup and properly configured with the right SEO and social bookmarking plugins, the next step to get your posts to top Goggle. This is often one of the most overlooked but easiest things to do.

The main factor, after your blog is properly configured, is the title of your posts. Consider the title very carefully. Consider this post for example the title, “Write WordPress Blog Posts That Top The Search Engines”. If I had called it “How To Write A Blog Post” it would be way down it the search engine rankings. Probably never to be found by anyone searching Google. My bet (or hope) here is that a search for “WordPress Posts That Top Search Engines” will reach the first page on Goggle in less than 24 hours.

So now you may say “Yeah, but how many searches are done for that term.” Well you would be surprised, and a top 5 ranking for a bunch of less searched terms is much better than trying to get a more competitive term to the top.

Write specific, targeted, informative WordPress blog posts. Use the main keywords in the title, and again in the post itself. If you look carefully at this post my keywords are WordPress Blog and Search Engines, and I have used those terms as much possible without overtly stuffing them in the post.

Write general information, with general, non-specific titles and your WordPress posts will be mired at the bottom of the search engines. Provide good specific content and keyword rich titles, and your posts will make it to the top, and possibly linked to and shared by others.

Here is another related WordPress Guide for even more detailed information: WordPress Guide To Writing A WordPress Post

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Add a PayPal Payment Button To WordPress Blog

Here is a simple WordPress Guide to add a PayPal payment button within posts on your WordPress blog.

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WordPress Post Navigation Looks Bad On Single Pages

You may have seen it on some blogs and maybe even your own: The navigation links to next and previous posts appear to be jumbled or even wrapped around each other looking terrible. This is usually on the WordPress default theme but can happen on other themes as well. This simple WordPress Guide will make your next and previous navigation links look much better in single posts.

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How To Add BlogRush To A WordPress Blog

If you have a WordPress blog, or any blog for that matter, chances are you have heard of BlogRush. BlogRush is a traffic generation strategy specifically for blogs. The porpose of this WordPress Guide is to show you how to add the BlogRush widget to your blog.

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Make WordPress Custom Header Image A Link

Changing the WordPress default header image is a pretty easy. Simply upload a different header to the themes Images folder, Change the name of the old header image to something else and then change the new header image to the name of the current header image. But then how do you make the new WordPress header image a link back to the main blog’s page? Find out how…

How To Add A Google Sitemap To A WordPress Blog

A few simple steps and a great WordPress plugin that will automatically build a sitemap for your blog and notify Google of all your new posts. This is one of the more important steps involved when setting up your new WordPress blog if you want organic search engine traffic.

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My WordPress Blog is Broken and I Don’t Know What to Do

You made a recent WordPress blog post, or customized your WordPress blogs theme and now it looks terrible. Here are a few things to look for and consider when creating a new WordPress blog post or customizing WordPress to eliminate any problems.

Fix WordPress Sidebar Widgets That Don’t Work

You may have come across a cool WordPress theme that you really want to use on your WordPress blog but it might need just a bit of tweaking to make it standout or, in some cases work correctly. In this example what to do if your new themes widgets aren’t working.

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WordPress Version 2.3 Coming Soon

WordPress continues to improve and evolve. As some continue to Customize WordPress with plugins, some of the more popular are getting bundled into WordPress.

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Back Date WordPress Posts With The Post Timestamp

A WordPress blog has the ability to to edit the published date of a post to an earlier date. This WordPress Guide shows how to use the Post Timestamp option. This may be useful if you have articles from a static website that you want to incorporate into the archives of a your WordPress blog. Or of you want to give your blog a more established look.

Sidebar On Default WordPress Theme

Adding the sidebar to the WordPress default theme is really pretty easy but you may have missed one more step to have the single post page show the background in the sidebar. The WordPress default theme was written to not show the sidebar on the single post page. Because of that it specifies one background image for the main index that shows the gray background in the sidebar. And another image for the single post page with no background in the sidebar area. The version of the default theme you have determines what image background to use. But don’t worry you will see what image to use right in the header.php file.

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Get Top Search Engine Rankings With WordPress SEO Plugins

Self-hosted WordPress blogs are probably the fastest way to get to the top of the natural search engine listings. There are literally thousands of WordPress plugins available but here I will discuss just a few that help with SEO and ultimately top search engine rankings.

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RSS Basics The Benefits Of RSS

As blogging becomes more popular those of using WordPress had better start learning and utilizing RSS. RSS or Really Simple Syndication, is an innovation in information management in the worldwide web as well as online marketing. I will admit that I have been slacking in this department and it’s time to learn how to learn more about it and fully utilize the technology.

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