SEO, Visibility, and Usability

SEO, Visibility, and Usability

Apr 17

As many of you may have noticed, I have been working on improving the ‘noticability’ of my sites using select WordPress Plugins. I can say with certainty now that the following plugins have had a very positive impact on my SEO rankings but more importantly on my site traffic. The plugins I refer to are:

  • YARPP- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin- I use this with customized settings (variable per and my business objectives) to improve cross-linking of information on my .  This not only improves some of the ratings in Google but seems to have a positive impact on whether or not people stay on the and look at additional related information.  AND.. since I am in the business of providing information to people, this serves a very improtant function. (Similar functionality can be made available via Simple Tags– although I find this plugin superior.)
  • All in One SEO- This plugin is very useful in improving what Google and others see when they examine my web-pages. The one dependency I have observed in using this plugin is to load the same keywords I use/ generate in Simple Tags in the Home Keywords area of this plugin.  This seems to provide a higher hit rate on my pages when the search engines come by.  It additionally appears to have a positive impact on making relevant pages available to search engines.
  • SEO Smart Links- I use this plugin for much the same reason as YARPP.  The big plus is that this plugin places hot links within the body of Posts/Pages to facilitate cross-navigation around the site.
  • Simple Tags- is possibly the key to everything.  If you are like me and often forget to tag things this plugin makes it easy to augment and re-tag your entire site at will. If you keep the tag list in this plugin as your master, it also makes it easy to cross-link and cross-reference all your SEO data across the site.
    • Be certain to look at the admin function for this tool because you can invoke the following key functions:
    • Related Posts- cross-linking of posts where content is similar (similar to YARPP)
    • Related Pages- cross-linking of pages where content is similar (similar to YARPP)
    • Relevant Tags- listing of the tags used on the Page/ Post

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  1. Michael Griffith
    Posted on June 18, 2010

    I am an Australian University academic. We run WordPress.org inhouse and students do not have a public face because their blogs are all kept behind the ACU firewall. I am asking as an individual teacher whether there is any simply way that students could make their private (university only) blogs public to the outside world. I know they can of course create their own WordPress.com sites, but could they find a tool that could make their WordPress.org blogs public to all?
    thanks for your time
    Michael

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