Hi all, the past few months have been good for me thanks to the folks here at BHW. I'm getting pretty good at off page SEO, however I haven't paid much attention at all to on page SEO. I have a bunch of Wordpress sites and I'm not sure how to optimize them. Should I use a plugin to help me, or do everything manually? Can I over-optimize on page SEO like I can with off page SEO? Thanks in advance.
On Page SEO Questions
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SmileAtmyWins
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Use the plugin EASYWPSEO. It helps me out a great deal. Also, use then All In One SEO plugin. All In One is for Titles, descriptions meta, and keywords. EASYWPSEO is for your pages keyword density, h1-h3 tags, and a few other things. SO use those. Hope this helps.
You can definitely over optimize your pages and be penalized in Google
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davidzweber9
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What about using nohands seo & blasting home page key words?
SmileAtmyWins
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How about instead you created a tiered backlink pyramid and blast through the tiers. Even 301 redirect an aged domain towards yours. Keep your backlink profile diverse. That means web 2.0s, high pr wiki links, an edu or two if you can with low outbound links, social bookmarks, etc.
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There are two essential levels of on-page optimization: ‘structure' and ‘content'.
Everything that refers to the ‘structure' level is basically about making a site's structure tidy and easy to crawl. So, the main issues to be checked one by one are the following: code errors, broken links, server response code errors, duplicate content. Also, make sure that you have all your pages indexed, and your site has a robot.txt file and a site map (submitted to search engines).
The other level of on-page is about content optimization and it covers such aspects as optimizing titles, tags, meta descriptions, anchor texts and URLs for a keyword and determining the right keyword density and keyword distribution in the text.
There is of course a lot of work to be done manually, and I personally never tried it with a plugin but have been using WebSite Auditor tool to fix all on-page issues.
As for over-optimization, I think the ‘structure' part can hardly be over-optimized. On the contrary, with ‘content' on-page optimization it may eventually happen, for instance if one uses too many keywords on a page, or the same anchor texts for internal links.
Everything that refers to the ‘structure' level is basically about making a site's structure tidy and easy to crawl. So, the main issues to be checked one by one are the following: code errors, broken links, server response code errors, duplicate content. Also, make sure that you have all your pages indexed, and your site has a robot.txt file and a site map (submitted to search engines).
The other level of on-page is about content optimization and it covers such aspects as optimizing titles, tags, meta descriptions, anchor texts and URLs for a keyword and determining the right keyword density and keyword distribution in the text.
There is of course a lot of work to be done manually, and I personally never tried it with a plugin but have been using WebSite Auditor tool to fix all on-page issues.
As for over-optimization, I think the ‘structure' part can hardly be over-optimized. On the contrary, with ‘content' on-page optimization it may eventually happen, for instance if one uses too many keywords on a page, or the same anchor texts for internal links.
rugbyjack2005
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You need to analyse your sites first to see what is wrong. I use Website Auditor but there are other programs out there. Google WMT highlights most things. I use SEO Quake to check keyword densities which is a free plugin for Chrome/FireFox. Once you know what is wrong, you can set about correctly the faults and preventing them in the future. This will also give you a reasonable idea of what plugins you need
Why not go right to the source - Google Webmaster Tools - all the answers are there.
Alex Coleman
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I think on page SEO in a wordpress site is easy as compare to other sites. Yes ..you need to install plugins for meta tags, analytics etc and they are easily available. But off course you need to optimize and write different tags manually.
Wordpress is a customizing platform to develop a website and it is also free from many programming errors.
Wordpress is a customizing platform to develop a website and it is also free from many programming errors.
redchillies
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Google especially like a lot of texts to account for Prominent factor to rank it. So if you put too many products together, it might not rank well. You want to have a lot of texts for each product. However, I would not stuff too many keywords neither.
SmileAtmyWins
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For Wordpress, use All in One SEO plugin, EASYEPSEO plugin, And Google XML Sitemap plugin, and you should be good to go.
matt broody
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I would recommend to try EasyEPSEO plugin
Also check our webmaster tools, you will find lot of ideas how to improve your on page seo
Also check our webmaster tools, you will find lot of ideas how to improve your on page seo
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charleskoliver
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Well for on-page using plugin is ok not as effective as doing it manually in code. I would rather say that over-optimization results in horrible nightmare so avoid over-optimization.
