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Clearly when you take HTML coding into account, you are talking about search engine optimization. When you can spit out actual PHP coding suggestions, that is quite remarkable. Wordpress blog SEO is often technical and invisible to human visitors.

I removed all the archive, category, and tag links from the sidebars and put them on a dedicate page which resulted in a simplified menu structure. All of the posts are now feeding off the new Post Archive page. While categories and tags likewise have their own index page.

This blog is about providing practical information that the typical blogger can actually put immediately into use.

John H. Gohde muses: “When does obsessing over security for your blog do more harm than good?”

Here is a cool plugin that will help make your Wordpress blog more professional looking.

Just because a Wordpress Theme is advertised as being Search Engine Optimized does not mean that it actually is. Usually they are selling the sizzle, rather than the steak.

WordPress blogs have an optional excerpt field that should always be filled out. Google is aware of it. Use it as an alternate description tag. Bloggers should use it as a teaser that uniquely introduces each new post without duplicating the content of the actual post.

PageRank only counts in the SERPs when all other things are equal. Or in others words, pagerank is almost never a consideration for ranking better in the SERPs.

If you set up your blog to ping then your posts will be added to Google within minutes of their publication. First, your optional excerpt will be added to Google’s blog index. After a few more minutes your new post will be added to Google’s web index. And, your home page will likewise be updated in Google’s web index.

Registered users of your blog, and especially new subscribers should not have access to which version of Wordpress your blog is running. Wordpress version update nag reminders tell potential hackers that you are not running the latest version of Wordpress.