Archive for Search Engine Optimization
How To Install The Google XML Sitemap Plugin
Posted by: | CommentsIn this tutorial I will teach you how to install the Google XML sitemap plugin on your wordpress blog.
Having a sitemap for your blog is important because it makes it easier for search engines spider and index the pages and posts of your wordpress blog.
Even though the plugin uses the Google name, the sitemap will be used by all search engines e.g. Yahoo, Bing and Ask.
A sitemap is an xml page of links to all the pages and posts on your blog here is the sitemap for Your Blog Builder.
Step One
Make sure your blog is visible to everyone including search engines. This is a very important setting, if your blog is set to block search engines then it will not be indexed by search engines meaning no free search engine traffic 
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To check this click the settings tab in the admin area of your blog then click privacy:
How To Change The Permalink Structure Of Your Wordpress Blog
Posted by: | CommentsIn this tutorial I am going to teach you how to change the permalink structure of your Wordpress blog.
Changing the permalink structure of your wordpress blog will help to optimize it for the search engines. It is very important that the title of each post contains the main keywords you are targeting within the post. Otherwise changing the permalink structure will be of no benefit.
If you don’t know what permalink structure is look at the URL of this post. You will see my domain name, followed by the category name, followed by the post title. By default wordpress gives posts and pages a post id. If I hadn’t changed the permalink structure of this blog then the URL would look something like this yourblogbuilder.com/?p=1.
