Setting up Wordpress
Setting up Wordpress using the right settings and plugins will help get your site indexed faster and even to the top of the search engines if you just use basic search engine optimization techinues when you write.
Some of the essential wordpress settings and plugins are as follows:
- Set your permalinks to include the post name. You set this in the settings tab/permalinks – select custom structure- add this : /%postname%/
- xml sitemap plugin is essential for getting your site found by the search engines
- aksimet -for spam protection
- use a social bookmarking plugin
- an adsense plugin for putting ads in posts. I use Adman.
- Find a related posts plug that will put related posts at the end of each post to keep people reading
- In the settings for writing go to the link that is on the page and get the settings for pinging your blog. In the box that says update services add this information. Whenever your post your blog will send out a message to these servers letting people know.
- Make the rss feed very visible so people can follow you.
See also: Wordpress Hosting