Can WordPress Compete Against Moveable Type? ((from One by One Media):

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I’ve wrapped up my notes from the SEO session at Wordcamp over the weekend to post here with links to the plugins and methods described to optimize your Wordpress install.

Meta tags - These are done for use in SEO with the exception of Meta Description. The Head Meta Description plug-in takes care of this for you by pulling x number of words from your entry and info about the category of the post. These items are configurable within the plugin.

Permalinks - Change out the permalink structure to get more keyword search friendly words in the title.

Title - Change out your titles to get the title of the post (which should get you more specific search engine traffic) in front of the title of the blog. Some people talked about a hack of the code in the blog itself and there is a plugin - Optimal Title - which does this for you.

Blogrolls/Incoming links - While how to get incoming links wasn’t discussed to much, it was mentioned that incoming links from relevant sites using relevant anchor tags are a good idea. So a link which reads “wordpress seo tips” leading to this post from a site like Problogger would be better than coming from a random poker gambling blog.

Some techniques for getting links include sending an email to other bloggers who deal in the same subject and letting them know about your post, using trackbacks on other sites, commenting in other’s blogs and getting on sites like Digg or del.icio.us.

Create a sitemap - The use of Google’s sitemap tool was talked about and also mention of a good Wordpress sitemap plugin.

Create compelling content often - Not only is this a great way to keep readers once they find you, the search engines tend to favor sites which update often.

Link to the speaker’s post - Cameron and Neil from Pronet Advertising - about their seo talk.

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Just a note that I will be away from this site tomorrow and attending Wordcamp. I’ll be liveblogging from some of the sessions and posting photos. You can check things out at Blogu Weblog.

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