Advanced WordPress SEO Optimization

Nice tips..

very useful. thanks.

Wow, I don't want the info to end on this. Just did a quick check, my widgets are H2 tags!!

"Categories"
"Aritcles"

blah blah...

Gonna spend the day getting this sucker in shape, thank you!

EDIT: What about the proper use of h4/5 tags etc.... I guess I should look it up. I always do all my headings in my articles as h2/h3, should I change all the fonts to be the same size h2-h6 and use those for importance of the headings for new sections in an article? I usually don't use the other h3+ because the size is just too small.... or is this like keyword stuffing etc? Tricks?

Thanks for the tips.

Yes I admit I have lot of widget, well I think it helps in the eyes of readers.

Great share bro. I will play around with HTML code for on-site opti to maximize page ranking thanks again

@zmoney

You use H* tags exacctly how you use them in a word processor like Microsoft Word. Basically you should have only one single H1 tag which is the main title of the page. It should be the same as the page title (<title> - that you see in the browser's window title bar).

Then you can have no other H2-H6 tags or as many as it makes sense. The rule of thumb is that a H* tag with smaller number is the parent of a H* tag of smaller number.

In other words the following would not be correct because you have H3 after H1 and there was no H2 parent for the H3:

Basically the number dictates who's child that subtitle is. So a H2 could only be the child of a H1 and a H3 could only be the child of a H2. So makes no sense to have a H1 followed by a H6.

Practically however very few sites follow the correct semantic structure and in practical terms it does not affect your SEO if you do it correctly or not. The only thing that affects SEO in practice is that content/text inside H* tags are given more weight and the lower the number of the H tag, the higher the weight/importance given to it. In other words H1 is most important and H6 is least important. That is why it is recommended to have keywords in your H* tags. However don't do keyword stuffing in H* tags because SE don't like that. Keep it neat and readable. Don't write your articles for SE, write them for people.

Great tutorial, please where in my template can i see H1 to H6 tags?
Also is there any plugin that can protect our site from being hack? I lost one of my main money site to hackers and it got banned for promoting racist. "which the backers put in" if i remember well, all what my wordpress site front page is full of words like "F U C K Isreal"
what is .htass or something?

Thanks for this great tutorial.

Wow, I had no idea how to properly use H tags. So that stands for Heading? lol Been doing this for 8 years, never knew lol.... Thanks.

@t0m3313 - that's meta information. doesn't hurt and doesn't help much except for the fact it allows google to know those pages exist. Leave them as they are.

@T2tkid - To see H tags, install Web Developer Toolbar plugin for firefox. Check Outline->Outline Headings. About the hacking there are many ways to get hacked and I could not give you much advice to be generic. From hosting misconfiguration, exploits in WP or it's plugins, to trojan plugins and even computer viruses (some steal your FTP accounts if you saved them in the FTP client).

Mothaf***king Thanks ALOT!

Another thing...

A lot of people stress that you need a sitemap. I stress that if you need a sitemap then your internal linking structure is shit. If you need a sitemap for Google to find your pages you're in trouble.

I NEVER use a sitemap on my sites. I do however make sure I have not one, not two but many links towards each post. Is not even difficult. You have categories (ideally in a silo structure if you have lots of content), you have tags if you use them right, links from post to post (very useful to get many links towards posts), etc. Unless you did something very wrong with your internal link architecture or you are super lazy, you don't need a sitemap. A link from a sitemap provides extremely low value because that's a page full of links with no content.

useful, i like this

Mother of god !

good read, effing long

Amazing thread,most of my sites are wordpress but I have slowly started to move to html.Looks like it may be a good idea seo wise.
The sites are for local businesses so I guess if I get to grips with html I'll make the ranking process quicker.
Thanks for H tag info,it's all new to me but I'll get it over time.

I just buy templates but can you change the H tags on html sites where the pages are on one file e.g the pages are not sperate files but in one file.
Anyway thanks again rep given because there is some very solid seo information here even though much of it sis currently beyond my abilities.

And finally somebody else on BHW using WP No category base.

It shocks me, I've read through most of the "what plugins do you use" thread and NEVER ONCE seen anybody !!ON A SEO FORUM!! mention the retarded WordPress category base that completely fucks up your entire URL structure for posts.

Whoever's dipshit idea that was over at WordPress, I hope they get 50K hatemails a day.

I tell you my brother. Money is key to your success online.

cloakndagger said:

I just buy templates but can you change the H tags on html sites where the pages are on one file e.g the pages are not sperate files but in one file.

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What u mean? every post/page is a separate file? then you use server side includes or php includes of just one file so you don't have to modify tons of files. Or you modify in all files. Otherwise give an example so i understand.

Brilliant advice - particularly about wordpress's popularity.........