Comments on: The First 5 Essential Tweaks I Do in a WordPress Blog Installation

By: jonathan Anderson

jonathan Anderson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:22:02 +0000

Thanks for your response! There’s been so mich talk aboiut SEO blogging methods that its easy to loose site of the actual content that gets the best SEO results anyway.

By: Cory Miller

Cory Miller — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:11:55 +0000

Jonathan, I think it’s overkill. I’ve seen so many people cram every SEO plugin into their blogs, when I’ve found over the last two years that doing the simple stuff … then just writing GOOD content is enough.

By: Jonathan Adnerson

Jonathan Adnerson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:09:46 +0000

What’s your suggestion for using SEO plugins? For example, utilizing headlines in meta data spaces.

I’ve installed the analytics script, that’s great knowledge for traffic and ‘hot’ links.

Thanks for your blog

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By: Christopher Ross

Christopher Ross — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:08:48 +0000

Great advice Cory! I would add a sixth however, install Analytics or another tracking package to ensure you know what’s really going on. I used to think people came to my blog for web advice, then I found out (using Analytics) that my Torque tutorials get way more hits.

By: The Old Vic

The Old Vic — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:19:48 +0000

Cool – I’m just starting using WordPress and had no idea there was such a thing as a Google Sitemap Plugin – excellent info. many thanks, it’s next on my ‘to do’ list.

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By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:40:56 +0000

I never thought that a contact form would make such a dramatic change in your visitor activity.

I added one into one of my sites and within the week i had more responce off that than i had in the previous 12 months!