How to optimize your new Wordpress blog

Wordpress is a great free platform for bloggers but can’t be left as it is just after installation. It needed to do some SEO adjusting.

• Don’t leave your post links like this: http://yourblogdomain/?p=152
  Settings --> Permalinks --> Custom Structure, add:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html


• Post title, it’s better to place the title of your post before the blog’s title, or even better if it is showed just the post title: in your template header.php, delete whatever there is between <title></title> and add: 
  


<?php

if ($paged!=0) {

echo "Pagina ".$paged." - ";

}

if ( is_single() || is_page() ) { // single pages are the most visited; => top IF

$post_custom = get_post_custom($post->ID);

$custom_desc_value = $post_custom["title"][0];

if($custom_desc_value) {

echo $custom_desc_value;

} else {

wp_title('');

}

}

else {

if (is_home()) { bloginfo('name'); }

else {

if ( function_exists("is_tag") && is_tag()) {

if (function_exists('single_tag_title')) single_tag_title();

} else {

wp_title('');

}

}

}

?>




• Add this canonical plugin to prevent duplicate content: Canonical URL's for WordPress (duplicate content is penalized by Google)