SEO Cheat Sheets for WordPress
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The document provides tips for optimizing a Wordpress blog for search engines. It recommends choosing an intelligent domain name containing keywords. It also suggests optimizing the URL structure by using Wordpress permalinks without categories, and including post numbers. Further tips include choosing an appropriate theme, adding necessary plugins, optimizing content and metadata, creating XML sitemaps and more to help the blog rank well in search engines.
![1.
Install
Wordpress 4.
URL
structure
for
posts 6.
Opmize
theme:
Header 8.
Must
have
plugins
choose
an
intelligent
domain‐name
which
opmize
your
URL
structure
by
using
the
opmize
your
tle,
choose
an
ideal
tle
for
Add
link
aEribute
for
doing
pagerank
sculpng
contains
keyword(s)
(if
possible) properes
of
wordpress
(permalinks) all
kinds
of
pages
of
your
blog:
#4 the
easy
way
choose
the
„right“
TLD
for
don‘t
include
the
category
in
your
post‐ if
necessary,
do
the
same
with
your
Custom
Query
String
Reloaded
to
change
the
you
URLs,
perhaps
if
you
change
the
category
of
descripons number
of
posts
displayed
in
your
archives,
a
post
later,
wordpress
will
not
create
a
new
dont‘t
let
search
engines
indexing
all
of
categories…
2.
robots.txt URL your
pages
to
avoid
duplicate
content:
#5 Dagon
Design
Sitemap
Generator
to
create
a
by
including
a
four‐digit
number,
your
post
add
some
language
informaon:
#6 HTML‐sitemap
for
beEer
internal
linkbuilding
create
a
file
&
name
it
„robots.txt“ URL
is
opmized
for
Google
News
(perhaps
specify
the
locaon
of
your
robots.txt:
#7 Google
XML
Sitemaps
to
create
web‐sitemaps
put
it
in
the
root
directory
of
your
domain you
want
to
get
in
there)
Pagebar
2
to
opmize
the
navigaon
in
your
to
allow
the
bots
of
all
the
search
engines
don‘t
include
too
much
folders blog
to
crawl
all
of
you
content,
insert
#1
in
your
Similar
Posts
to
opmize
your
internal
link
for
example
you
can
set
your
post
URL
by
7.
Opmize
theme:
Body
robots.txt using
#3 structure
be
careful
with
the
use
of
robots.txt,
you
Sociable
includes
buEons
for
social
can
harm
your
blog
by
using
it
the
wrong
remove
the
link
of
your
posts
headline
bookmarking
pages
in
your
posts
way,
beEer
read
this
great
tutorial use
headlines
to
highlight
text
passages
as
important,
not
to
style
your
your
design
wpSEO
to
opmize
tle,
descripon
&
keywords
5.
Choose
your
theme (also
remove
the
<h2>‐headlines
from
your
easily
sidebar
3.
.htaccess you
can
find
many
themes,
here
are
some
use
pagerank
sculpng
careflully
great
resources:
9.
Usertracking
create
a
file
&
name
it
„.htaccess“ Theme
Viewer
put
it
in
the
root
directory
of
your
domain Theme
Designer Hint: install
a
usertracking
system
to
analyse
your
to
set
your
default
URL
with
www,
edit
Candy
College all
the
steps
of
this
cheat
sheet
are
only
traffic
(for
example
use
Google
Analycs)
your
.htaccess
and
insert
#2 Bloggonaut some
basics
Wordpress
will
also
use
.htaccess
to
create
Wordpress
Themes with
this
cheat
sheet
it
is
possible
to
speaking
URLs Noupe create
a
wordpress,
nearly
opmized
for
10.
Adding
a
sitemap
to
use
.htaccess,
your
apache
webserver
Magazine
Themes search
engines
have
to
supports
mod_rewrite Hackwordpress to
have
success
in
search
engines,
it
is
add
your
sitemap
in
Google
Webmastertools
Dr.
Web also
very
important
to
get
backlinks,
download
some
themes
you
like,
but
also
connect
and
interact
with
other
bloggers 11.
Archives
inspect
the
source
code
of
the
theme:
be
Hint:
A
more
detailed
resource
to
opmize
thats
topic
for
another
cheat
sheet
your
WP
blog:
Joost
de
Valk sure
that
the
source
code
is
well
structured
create
a
monthly
&
weekly
archive
Example
&
Code
Area
#1:
User‐agent:
* #5:
<?php
if(
is_day()
||
is_tag()
||
is_search()
||
is_404()
||
is_author()
)
{
echo
"<meta
name="robots"
Disallow: content="noindex,follow,noodp"/>";
}
else
{
echo
"<meta
name="robots"
content="index,follow,all,noodp
#2:
RewriteCond
%{HTTP_HOST}
^domain.tld$
[NC] "/>";
}
?>
RewriteRule
^(.*)$
hEp://www.domain.tld/$1
[R=301,L] #6:
<meta
name="language"
content=„en"
/>
#3:
/666%post_id%‐%postname%/ #7:
<meta
name="siteinfo"
content="robots.txt"
/>
#4:
<tle>
<?php
if
(is_single())
{
?><?php
the_tle();
?>
|
tekka.de</tle><?php
;}
?>
<?php
if
(is_page())
{
?><?php
echo
wp_tle();
?></tle><?php
;}
?>
…
By
Markus
Walter,
Munich
2008,
V
1.0 Cheat
Sheet:
SEO
for
Wordpress
–
powered
by
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![Sidebar
content Create
a
weekly
archive Addional
hints
you
don‘t
have
to
put
the
same
sidebar‐elements
on
all
kinds
of
pages,
for
exemple
create
a
new
stac
page
and
insert
the
use
Feedburner
to
opmize
your
feed
the
element
„New
posts“
is
not
necessary
on
home
(there
you
already
have
the
new
code
#1
for
the
weekly
archive
overview
track
the
acvies
of
the
search
engine
spiders
with
posts) page Crawltrack
to
control
the
power
of
your
pages,
you
can
use
pagerank
sculpng,
but
carefully
link
to
that
weekly
archive
overview
page
protect
your
content
with
Bot‐Trap
(for
further
informaon
read
an
arcle
of
Johannes) from
every
page
of
your
blog
(same
for
your
with
the
plugin
Popularity
Contest
you
can
easily
provide
your
put
the
following
elements
at
your
sidebar,
some
with
nofollow
(the
nofollow
html‐sitemap burner‐posts
on
different
places
on
your
blog
elements
are
highlighted) link
to
the
weekly
archive
by
including
#2
save
your
database
automacly
with
the
plugin
Wordpress
by
not
linking
to
all
the
categories
from
all
pages,
you
can
create
clusters
of
pages
on
all
your
posts Database
Backup
!!!!
with
same
topics by
creang
a
weekly
archive
you
can
by
linking
to
the
x
new
posts
from
many
pages
you
can
accelerate
the
indexing
of
opmize
your
internal
links Useful
links
these
posts
by
not
linking
to
all
the
archive
pages
(a~er
2
years
blogging
you
have
24
links
to
Wordpress
Download
(english
|
german)
monthly
archives)
you
can
use
the
power
of
each
post
more
intelligent
Ping
to
other
services
Template
tags
(english
|
german)
the
latest
comments
on
your
pages
make
sure,
that
there
is
acon
on
your
pages Wordpress
forums
(english
|
german)
by
pinging
other
services
you
can
accelerate
the
indexing
of
your
posts
Home
but
don‘t
ping
too
much
services
categories
example‐ping‐list,
you
can
configurate
in
Cheet
Sheat:
SEO
for
Wordpress
archive
(monthly)
your
Wordpress
properes:
latest
comments Version
1.0
Page
1:
Steps
to
create
an
opmized
Wordpress
blog
hEp://ping.wordblog.de/
Post Page
2:
Addional
informaon,
hints
&
links
hEp://ping.blogstart.de/
new
posts
(i
prefer
3‐5
new
posts)
hEp://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
categories
(excepon:
the
category
the
post
belong
to,
link
this
category
without
Author:
hEp://rpc.pingomac.com/
nofollow) Markus
Walter
is
working
near
Munich
at
SevenOne
hEp://rpc.technora.com/rpc/ping
archive
(monthly)
(excepon:
the
month
the
post
is
published,
link
this
month
Inermedia
GmbH,
a
subcompany
of
the
ProSieben
Sat.1
hEp://ping.feedburner.com
without
nofollow) Media
AG.
There
Markus
is
responsible
for
SEO
and
web
hEp://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
latest
comments analycs.
hEp://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
hEp://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/
Archives,
Pages Contact:
weblogUpdates
new
posts Email:
walter[dot]markus[at]gmx[dot]com
hEp://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
categories Skype:
m‐walter
|
ICQ:
117319378
hEp://ping.wordblog.de/
archive
(monthly) Website:
hEp://www.tekka.de
[feed]
latest
comments XING
|
Linkedin
Example
&
Code
Area
#1:
<?php
wp_get_archives('type=monthly&show_post_count=1');
?>
#2:
<a
href="hEp://www.domain.tld/<?php
the_me('Y');
?>/?w=<?php
the_me('W');
?>">All
posts
from
week<?php
the_me('W');
?>
/
<?php
the_me('Y');
?></a>
By
Markus
Walter,
Munich
2008,
V
1.0 Cheat
Sheet:
SEO
for
Wordpress
–
powered
by
hEp://www.tekka.de 2](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/cheat-sheet-seo-for-wordpress-110221022408-phpapp02/85/SEO-Cheat-Sheets-for-WordPress-2-320.jpg)
SEO Cheat Sheets for WordPress
- 1. 1. Install Wordpress 4. URL structure for posts 6. Opmize theme: Header 8. Must have plugins choose an intelligent domain‐name which opmize your URL structure by using the opmize your tle, choose an ideal tle for Add link aEribute for doing pagerank sculpng contains keyword(s) (if possible) properes of wordpress (permalinks) all kinds of pages of your blog: #4 the easy way choose the „right“ TLD for don‘t include the category in your post‐ if necessary, do the same with your Custom Query String Reloaded to change the you URLs, perhaps if you change the category of descripons number of posts displayed in your archives, a post later, wordpress will not create a new dont‘t let search engines indexing all of categories… 2. robots.txt URL your pages to avoid duplicate content: #5 Dagon Design Sitemap Generator to create a by including a four‐digit number, your post add some language informaon: #6 HTML‐sitemap for beEer internal linkbuilding create a file & name it „robots.txt“ URL is opmized for Google News (perhaps specify the locaon of your robots.txt: #7 Google XML Sitemaps to create web‐sitemaps put it in the root directory of your domain you want to get in there) Pagebar 2 to opmize the navigaon in your to allow the bots of all the search engines don‘t include too much folders blog to crawl all of you content, insert #1 in your Similar Posts to opmize your internal link for example you can set your post URL by 7. Opmize theme: Body robots.txt using #3 structure be careful with the use of robots.txt, you Sociable includes buEons for social can harm your blog by using it the wrong remove the link of your posts headline bookmarking pages in your posts way, beEer read this great tutorial use headlines to highlight text passages as important, not to style your your design wpSEO to opmize tle, descripon & keywords 5. Choose your theme (also remove the <h2>‐headlines from your easily sidebar 3. .htaccess you can find many themes, here are some use pagerank sculpng careflully great resources: 9. Usertracking create a file & name it „.htaccess“ Theme Viewer put it in the root directory of your domain Theme Designer Hint: install a usertracking system to analyse your to set your default URL with www, edit Candy College all the steps of this cheat sheet are only traffic (for example use Google Analycs) your .htaccess and insert #2 Bloggonaut some basics Wordpress will also use .htaccess to create Wordpress Themes with this cheat sheet it is possible to speaking URLs Noupe create a wordpress, nearly opmized for 10. Adding a sitemap to use .htaccess, your apache webserver Magazine Themes search engines have to supports mod_rewrite Hackwordpress to have success in search engines, it is add your sitemap in Google Webmastertools Dr. Web also very important to get backlinks, download some themes you like, but also connect and interact with other bloggers 11. Archives inspect the source code of the theme: be Hint: A more detailed resource to opmize thats topic for another cheat sheet your WP blog: Joost de Valk sure that the source code is well structured create a monthly & weekly archive Example & Code Area #1: User‐agent: * #5: <?php if( is_day() || is_tag() || is_search() || is_404() || is_author() ) { echo "<meta name="robots" Disallow: content="noindex,follow,noodp"/>"; } else { echo "<meta name="robots" content="index,follow,all,noodp #2: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.tld$ [NC] "/>"; } ?> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ hEp://www.domain.tld/$1 [R=301,L] #6: <meta name="language" content=„en" /> #3: /666%post_id%‐%postname%/ #7: <meta name="siteinfo" content="robots.txt" /> #4: <tle> <?php if (is_single()) { ?><?php the_tle(); ?> | tekka.de</tle><?php ;} ?> <?php if (is_page()) { ?><?php echo wp_tle(); ?></tle><?php ;} ?> … By Markus Walter, Munich 2008, V 1.0 Cheat Sheet: SEO for Wordpress – powered by hEp://www.tekka.de 1
- 2. Sidebar content Create a weekly archive Addional hints you don‘t have to put the same sidebar‐elements on all kinds of pages, for exemple create a new stac page and insert the use Feedburner to opmize your feed the element „New posts“ is not necessary on home (there you already have the new code #1 for the weekly archive overview track the acvies of the search engine spiders with posts) page Crawltrack to control the power of your pages, you can use pagerank sculpng, but carefully link to that weekly archive overview page protect your content with Bot‐Trap (for further informaon read an arcle of Johannes) from every page of your blog (same for your with the plugin Popularity Contest you can easily provide your put the following elements at your sidebar, some with nofollow (the nofollow html‐sitemap burner‐posts on different places on your blog elements are highlighted) link to the weekly archive by including #2 save your database automacly with the plugin Wordpress by not linking to all the categories from all pages, you can create clusters of pages on all your posts Database Backup !!!! with same topics by creang a weekly archive you can by linking to the x new posts from many pages you can accelerate the indexing of opmize your internal links Useful links these posts by not linking to all the archive pages (a~er 2 years blogging you have 24 links to Wordpress Download (english | german) monthly archives) you can use the power of each post more intelligent Ping to other services Template tags (english | german) the latest comments on your pages make sure, that there is acon on your pages Wordpress forums (english | german) by pinging other services you can accelerate the indexing of your posts Home but don‘t ping too much services categories example‐ping‐list, you can configurate in Cheet Sheat: SEO for Wordpress archive (monthly) your Wordpress properes: latest comments Version 1.0 Page 1: Steps to create an opmized Wordpress blog hEp://ping.wordblog.de/ Post Page 2: Addional informaon, hints & links hEp://ping.blogstart.de/ new posts (i prefer 3‐5 new posts) hEp://xmlrpc.blogg.de/ categories (excepon: the category the post belong to, link this category without Author: hEp://rpc.pingomac.com/ nofollow) Markus Walter is working near Munich at SevenOne hEp://rpc.technora.com/rpc/ping archive (monthly) (excepon: the month the post is published, link this month Inermedia GmbH, a subcompany of the ProSieben Sat.1 hEp://ping.feedburner.com without nofollow) Media AG. There Markus is responsible for SEO and web hEp://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 latest comments analycs. hEp://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 hEp://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/ Archives, Pages Contact: weblogUpdates new posts Email: walter[dot]markus[at]gmx[dot]com hEp://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 categories Skype: m‐walter | ICQ: 117319378 hEp://ping.wordblog.de/ archive (monthly) Website: hEp://www.tekka.de [feed] latest comments XING | Linkedin Example & Code Area #1: <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&show_post_count=1'); ?> #2: <a href="hEp://www.domain.tld/<?php the_me('Y'); ?>/?w=<?php the_me('W'); ?>">All posts from week<?php the_me('W'); ?> / <?php the_me('Y'); ?></a> By Markus Walter, Munich 2008, V 1.0 Cheat Sheet: SEO for Wordpress – powered by hEp://www.tekka.de 2