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Whether it'sa corporate blog, a news blog type, or even a personal blog, optimizing your blog for search engines is a must. There are a few simple changes you can make to WordPress and Moveable Type that will make your blog more search engine friendly and search engines to beg for more (more post and content, of course!).

Optimizing a blog is like optimizing any other website. The content and pages (posts) must be unique, they must be search engines, and need links from other sites. If it's a new blog, you must first make sure the blog software you use is configured to use every possible optimization features. Then he announces to the world, working to get links to it, and start making posts.

WordPress Optimization

If you use WordPress for your blogging software, it is important to make sure your site is search engine friendly, which means it can be easily spidered by search engine spiders. Just like optimizing a website, it is important to have good title tags and meta tags. Keep in mind that blog software usually uses the title of your post as the title tag, include keywords in your titles, as much as possible. It is important to develop the software of your blog so that URLs do not contain many variables. Instead, use URLs that include the post title or display name in them. For example, if you use WordPress, you need to set the permalinks so that it uses% postname% in the URL. You can also create a special category for the archive of posts, and you might consider using a keyword that is linked to your blog instead of the default, which is usually the word archive. Fintan Darragh of www.dech.co.uk has a great blog post called "Ultimate WordPress SEO Tips" (http://www.dech.co.uk/2005/11/ultimate-WordPress-seo-tips/). Mr. Darragh talks about optimizing Permalink and said: "The goal: stick more keywords up into the URL and remove FAFF that nobody uses, to make the Web search engine and interesting people. Having keywords in your URL is an absolute must, especially when it's as easy as WordPress makes it. "He will also talk about getting rid of useless tags like the day, month and year, and a retail important: whatever you stick with the site structure you choose, otherwise you could find yourself with lots of useless links to your site. Other tips that Mr. Darragh mentions are optimizing your page titles and your post titles - and installing a few plugins that are useful as the plugin "Related Posts" and the "Technorati Tag Generator .

There are many other places where you can get specific advice on setting up WordPress in a search engine friendly manner, including: * SEO at Aleeya Dot Net - http://www.aleeya.net/category/WordPress/ seo /
* The Best WordPress SEO Possible - http://WordPress.org/support/topic/49168
* Search Engine Optimization for WordPress - http://codex.WordPress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress
* Search Engine Optimization for Blogs - http://www.blog-maniac.com/blog-seo.htm
* DYI Search Engine Optimization - http://lorelle.WordPress.com/2006/01/15/dyi-search-engine-optimization/ One of the best tutorials out there is one called "DYI Search Engine Optimization" by Lorelle VanFossen. Specifically, Lorelle (lorelle.WordPress.com) has good advice, including how to optimize your code, develop strong links within sites, write to use word-heavy, use categories and tags and how to use ping services. Lorelle says that "the goal is to help search engine spiders navigate through your website collecting information to be stored in the database search engine. The key data of your blog making it successfully into the database search engine is the following: 1) Make sure t.