Bootstrap Blogging

The following video is an excellent tutorial on setting up your WordPress blog to automatically create SEO friendly URLs.

This is one of the most important, and also one of the easiest, things you can do to get your blog noticed by search engines. If you haven’t done it already, please watch this video and make the change to your WordPress permalinks. You’ll be glad you did.

In my last post, we talked about how to choose your list of keywords. Now it’s time to learn what to do with that list.

When you write an article, choose which category your article falls under. Consult your keyword list and chose the keyword phrase that matches the category and the article you are writing. That is the keyword phrase you will optimize that article for.  Your keyword phrase should go in the meta keywords tag for the article and should also be used in the article content itself.

Use the following guidelines:

• Try to use the keyword phrase in your title

What are SEO keywords?

Keywords are words or phrases a person types into the search box when using a search engine like Google or yahoo to find information. SEO Keywords are the words and phrases YOU use to get your blog to rank well in the search results when a person searches for information using those same words and phrases.

Why are SEO keywords important?

Because, if you want your blog to show up in search results, preferably as close to the top as possible, you need to effectively use your keywords to get the search engines to match your blog to

Do you get one of those cartoon halos full of question marks circling your forehead every time you see the word “SEO?” Do you get completely lost trying to figure it all out?

Don’t feel bad. I know I did and sometimes I still do. SEO can be very confusing and it’s not made any easier by the tons of conflicting information out there. You just want to post on your blog and have people show up to read it and maybe click on some ads or buy a few things. You weren’t planning to spend hours wading through complicated information

WordPress is an amazing piece of blogging software. Unfortunately, its popularity and open source code make it a prime target for hackers and other troublemakers. Also, over time, WordPress can become bogged down by plugins and an ever-growing database size, which can affect the speed and performance of your blog. Because of these issues, I believe every WordPress installation should include at least these 5 plugins.

1. Limit Login Attempts

   Limit Login Attempts does exactly what it says it will. It prevents a hacker from using brute force attacks, a method of hacking which tries login after login