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Reference for Optimization of WordPress

Post By cssy888 on 2008-9-11 20:33:37 [Reads:299]
WordPress are an excellent script of blog. Incontestably for me the best report potentiel/complexite of the market: it is little gluttonous, simple to install, simple to take in hand, relatively accessible to the modifications without too many expertises.
it is by default effective enough. Nevertheless, it is possible to bring some SEO improvements for WordPress to make he even more effective.
Two types of consultants SEO are to give for WordPress, according to me,: the good plugins, and the good practices. The good plugins, by definition, these are those that are you useful as publisher, and that are useful to your visitors. This choice is yours.
Some are also useful for the motors: these are of those that I will treat here.
A. Of the plugins friendly to Optimize WordPress
Some plugins oriented SEO for WordPress, simple to put in place.
1. Simple Tags
Simple Tags are an administrator of. tags rather effective, and simple to put in place. Combined to the most recent versions of WordPress, it permits optimizations very friendly, as the automatic creation of ties in the very body of the tickets, the automatic generation of the cloud of tags, the management of the display of the tags at the end of ticket, as well as the generation automated thematically of ties between the tickets near.
Simple Tags allow you to optimize your WordPress template with the help of simple functions:
st_the_tags (): displays the tags of the page in progress st_related_posts (): displays a list of the tickets in relation with the ticket running st_tag_cloud (): displays a cloud of tags
Every function can be customisee according to your choices.
Simple Tags also permit to reappoint and to erase the tags.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags
2. Permalink Redirect
it can arrive that you are brought to decide to change the logic of rewrite of the URLs of your blog. Permalink Redirect verifies that the address of the current page is the only address validates (canonical URL), and send back visitors and robots toward the good address by a redirection 301, avoiding you the risks of happy duplicate thus.
Permalink Redirect permits to specify some rules to not to treat.
http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect /
3. Google Sitemaps
I use the plugin Google Sitemaps Generator for the generation of the site plan well stocked XML in Google. This plugin permits to define precise rules of generation of the sitemap.
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home /
B. Optimization of WordPress and modifications of template
A few small advice to modify your WordPress and to improve his/her/its performances and his/her/its "organic potential"
1. To optimize the titles [advanced]
The titles generated by default by WordPress are perfectible. They generate a little duplicate relate in some cases, and are constructed "upside-down."
Here is an example of modification that I bring in the header.php file of the current template.
< title > php if(is_home ()) { bloginfo ('description'); echo' | '; bloginfo ('name');} ?
php if(is_single ()) { wp_title ();} ?
php if(is_page ()) { wp_title ();} ?
php if(is_tag ()) { wp_title (); echo' | '; bloginfo ('name');}?
php if(is_archive () &&! is_tag ()) { wp_title (); echo ': archives';} ? < / title >
. to put to your sauce
wp_title () displays a disgracieux quotation mark in the title.
To get round celĂ : to search for the function wp_title () in the wp_includes/general-template.php file (currently line 162), and to withdraw that" of misfortune.
An alternative permitting not to have to put his/her/its fingers in the code is the plugin SEO Title Tag that permits to specify (by hand) a title of page for every ticket (different from the title of the ticket).
2. To fight against the happy duplicate [simple]
The happy duplicate is one of the major problems on a blog barded of plugins. A same content can meet:
on the home page; on the pages of the categories in which the content "is classified"; on the pages of the tags affected to the ticket; on the pages of the archives of the day of the ticket, of the month of the ticket, or even of the year of the ticket; Two simple methods to fight against the happy duplicate:
has. to avoid to use the archives: it is worth to privilege a structure "thematisee" better that an organization per date. If you choose good categories, and that you take care of your tagging, you don't need an archive.
b. to use turns it: this small icon in your publisher permits to cut the content in two, and not to display the complete content of the ticket that on the page of this ticket, limiting the content to display on the other pages (tags, categories, etc.) to the one that is located over to the of the cut.
3. To optimize the internal maillage [advanced]
To make some ties, it is well. To make too many ties, that the East a lot less.
When you open out 10-15 ties on one page, you distribute the potential that this page can transmit to the other on the set of these ties. If you add some ties, you dilute this potential.
If you use the excerpts, or the caesura (cf. b2b above) that have the effect of to cut the text, and to make follow it of a tie of the style "Lira the continuation"., you must think about to modify the template so that this tie is put in rel = "nofollow". Indeed, it already exists on the page (category, homepage, etc.) a tie toward the ticket - anchored on the title, therefore optimized. There to add a second tie, anchored on dead terms (to Read the continuation) decreases the efficiency of the whole.
Make some in the same way for those of your pages whose positioning doesn't represent an interest: page contact, copyright, ties toward the archives, tie toward the editor's profile, etc.
It doesn't prevent say them pages to be indexed. Merely, you direct the stream of potential of your pages toward the pages that have need of it, rather than to send of it almost everywhere. What is the interest to confer the potential to its page "copyright?"