This small guide will tell you how to increase search engine ranking and keyword phrases with minor changes to Wordpress. This actually worked for me and i increased my organic compaigns (meaning referrers from search engine ) by 118% over 1-2 months period. Where it was only around 16 hits a month ago compared to around 160 hits now just from organic.

The first thing I was to add some social bookmarks on my own with just some simple html and the how to from the social network site. I just choose the 2 most common one. I think that is enough because I use them and they are useful. But if you like to add more be my guests. Here is what I have on mine:

<a href=”http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>” title=”Submit To Digg” target=”_blank”><img style=”width: 16px; height: 16px;” src=”http://blog.icelabz.net/digg_guy.gif” alt=”Digg” border=”0″ align=”middle”/></a> <a title=”Add ‘<?php the_title(); ?>’ to Del.icio.us” href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>” target=”_blank”>
<img align=”middle” alt=”Submit to del.icio.us” src=”http://blog.icelabz.net/delicious.png” border=”0″ /></a>

I just added that in just under the post box. Oh btw the way the posts are being displayed is totally different from wordpress default.

Next I added a google sitemap generator, it’s a bit old but works. http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

Another plugin that I used is acronymer this is a pretty cool tool which allows you to automatically convert acronyms with abbr tags around them and giving them explanation.

The next thing I did was to add a meta description only to the header. Even though google doesn’t use them for different parts of your site as it generates them automatically. I added it so that people know what the site is about if there are looking up my site. I also think google doesn’t like when people dictate what keywords would be good for the page that is why I didn’t add it.

One of the most dramatical change was the format of my title. The tutorial for that can be found here. I wrote it a few weeks ago. And it worked.

The most important thing I did is to continuously add content, really good content related to what I like the blog to be about. Like this tutorial on SEO and Wordpress. I wrote it because it worked for me. And google likes good content which helps users and not copied content. And one more thing that google likes is emphasis words that are relevant. I normally bold up 1-2 keywords or phrases per paragraph. Google likes it

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