Question: I am an avid blogger, using the WordPress blog platform. What are the best SEO tips and tricks for WordPress circa 2012 / 2013? I need some help with my blog and search engine optimization, please.

Answer: There are a lot of SEO tips and tricks for WordPress as a top blogging platform. We use WordPress for our on blog on SEO, and love it! First, get one of the major SEO plug in’s such as YOAST or SEO-ALL-in-ONE for WordPress (You can just Google them to find them). Second, know your keywords and get those into your post title. Third, make sure that WordPress puts your keywords into your TITLE tag and your META DESCRIPTION tag. Fourth, use the WordPress tagging feature to cross-tag each post around your SEO keywords.

Here are other tips and tricks for WordPress according to my posts –

• Can you use SEO tactics on a WordPress blog? – Google Analytics is implemented via a Javascript code. Just Google ‘WordPress Google Analytics Plugin’s’ and you’ll find a bunch. For PageRank on Google, I recommend using OpenSiteExplorer.org. The official Google toolbar is nearly dead and the data that they share is junk anyway. So you need to use a surrogate indicator for PageRank (which is esssentially your web authority on Google).
• How do you SEO optimize WordPress URL’s? – You know, that’s a really good question. I have wondered that myself. On the one hand, the dates clearly tell Google it’s NEW / FRESH content. WordPress is so big as a platform that Google must understand that, and that’s probably a GOOD thing.
• What is the best WordPress SEO plugin? – WordPress is fantastic for SEO IF you use a good plug in. I like SEO ALL IN ONE FOR WordPress, but YOAST is also very popular. Right out of the box, WordPress is NOT particularly good at SEO, so a plug in is essential.