Blogging Tips 6: Using Plugins To Optimize Your Blog

Part 6 of the blogging tips series will be touching on using Wordpress plugins to optimize your blog. As blogging is a Search Engine Optimization strategy, you must use it to strengthen the area, as WordPress blogs are not fully SEOed, so plugins must be used to improve on that. Most of the time the traffic will come from the organic search for your blog, that is why you need to have a structured plan to reach your targeted readers.

As I have shared previously that a On-Page Optimization is a very important first step in Search Engine Optimization. How your blogging works is that it focus on a theme for example “Scuba Diving” niche, then separate the niche into different categories like “History”, “Diving Beach” or “Diving Equipment”, then from there onwards you will use the on-page optimization method for each post to strengthen the categories keywords, and lastly the categories keywords will strengthen the niche keywords.

The Wordpress plugin to use is called “All In One SEO” byMichael Torbert. It has a title tag, a description tag and a keyword tag, where you can use put in the long tail keywords into each of the three tag. Read On-Page Optimization for more info.

Here you will be able to fully optimize the long tail keywords, as long as you put them into the three tags. There are other plugins that will help in generating traffic to your blog like “Google XML Sitemaps” byArne Brachhold, this plugin will inform Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com via RSS that you have a new post. In this way your post will be view by the searchers of the search engines within a few days. The fastest that I have with Google is 45 minutes.

That will be all for today’s internet marketing strategy, do comment and share with your friends. To your success, cheers!