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• [insert blatant crap about myself, preferably a couple of slides.]

• [warn people I talk fast and presentation will be available for download]

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SEO & WordPress:What have we got?

• Good basic theme (twentyten, turn of comment pagination though)

• Lot’s of Plug-ins

• Search Engine Friendly out of the box

• Pages (hierarchical)

• Posts (chronological)

• Taxonomies ftw!

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What’s missing?

• Bloggers with knowledge of SEO

• Easy Internal Linking (will come in 3.1)

• Redirects, at least some custom stuff.

• A plan

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Let’s fix this.

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How to run a proper SEO strategy?

• Think about keywords (you think) you’re relevant for

• Use Pages for ranking instead of Posts

• Internal linking

• On-page stuff needs to be right (go read a book: the Art of SEO)

• Off-page (don’t forget to promote your precious work)

• Keep trying and learning

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Bad internal linking structure

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thank you: http://twitter.com/richardbaxter

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Good internal linking structure

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thank you: http://twitter.com/richardbaxter

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Pages vs. Posts

• Posts are most of the time categorized by your timeline. The older, the deeper in the site it will end up.

• If it ranks well, give it a good, solid, place in your structure. Give it a page. (post type switcher plugin ftw)

• Keep updating (and linking to) the page every once and while

• Redirect the old Post to the Page (redirection)

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Which SEO Plugins I recommend, and why?

• SEO smart links (or ‘automatic SEO links’)

• WordPress SEO

• Post type switcher

• Redirection

• Link to Post

• SEO Pager

• YARPP

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SEO Smart links: Settings

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• Link only to pages automatically

• Target only Posts and Pages

• Prevent linking in headers

• Don’t overdo it. Keep the user in mind.

• Cache it (or let your server die slowly...)

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WordPress SEO

• Replaces:

- Meta Robots

- Breadcrumbs

- Headspace

• Compatible with W3Total Cache

• Free! (great paid upgrade packages though)

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The usual suspect plugin list:

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• http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/w3-total-cache/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-search/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-

wordpress/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-to-post/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-tree-page-view/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/• http://www.seoegghead.com/software/wordpress-seo-pager.seo•http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-paginate/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-type-switcher/• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subpages-widget/

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Remember though: free stuff, isn’t always free.

• Check for ‘bad’/‘commercial’ footer links in themes and plugins

• It would be smart if you didn’t use code that you can’t read.

• Try this in Google every once and a while: “viagra viagra OR cialis OR poker OR casino site:chapter42.com”

• nofollow crappy commenters.

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Protect yourself

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Stuff like this hurts your reputation at Google.

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