SEO tip #3: Wordpress blogs

March 23, 11:34 AMDenver Internet Business ExaminerJenny Field

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Install your Wordpress blog today; go to www.wordpress.org

If you have a website and don't have a blog, get one now.  And get a Wordpress blog. 

Here are the benefits:

- Blogs have time stamps for every posting you submit.  Search engines like time stamps; they signify recency and importance.

- You can post date your time stamps.  If you want your blog to show consistent postings over the past six months but you upload all the postings in one day, you can still select the publish date as far back or as far forward as you choose.

- Wordpress blogs have thousands of free themes for you to put in a professional design.  Check out this site for a good assortment of themes: http://themes.rock-kitty.net/

- Wordpress blogs have an SEO plugin to integrate with Google.  You optimize your blog just by installing the plugin.

What you should do next:

1.  Go to www.wordpress.org to install their blog software on your server.
2.  Go to http://themes.rock-kitty.net/ to install a custom theme
3.  Start adding your postings
4.  Add pages, links, and insert hyperlinks, alt text, and images appropriately throughout your blog site for optimization.

Reference ideas to help you get started:

Here's a blog I've created with a custom design plugin: www.denvercreative.org
Here's a blog my business partner created purely for SEO purposes: www.shop4magazines.com/blog.

Related articles:

SEO tip #1: Meta tags
SEO tip #2: Images
SEO tip #4:Videos
SEO tip #5: Link building vs. Content

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