Core Plugins

All-In-One-SEO Pack – This plugin is an important part of SEO. This plugin sets up your blog’s title tags and metatags to include keywords and descriptions. Different title tags place keywords in the title tags and custom meta tags for each blog post, creating more unique content for search engines.

Google Sitemap Generator – This plugin generates a sitemap for search engines to pick up. Search engines give priority to sites with optimized sitemaps.

SE Optimization Plugins

Auto Tagger – This plugin uses Yahoo! to determine keywords related to the content of the article. These keywords are then added as tags to your blog and show up on your posts meta keywords. It’s always best to create your own tags in WP when writing a post, but just in case you forget this plugin will create them for you.

Sociable – This plugin adds links to the bottom of every article allowing your users to share your articles with popular social networks such as Digg, Technorati, and Twitter. This helps people find your site when they are searching popular social networking sites and hopefully brings them back to your blog for more..

Ping Optimizer – Blog pinging notifies blog servers that your blog has recently pulished new content. It shares your content across other networks, increasing your blog’s exposure, but excessively pinging these servers can get your site banned or blocked from future blog pinging. So you have to make sure that you are pinging these servers when necessary. This plugin will handle when and when not to ping these blog servers, optimizing how often you ping.

Security Plugins

Akismet – This plugin is included with every Wordpress installation. This plugin protects your blog from comment spam. Monitor and protect your blog from comment spam.

Database Backup – This plugin will automatically make database backups of your blog and send them to your email. Protect the content on your site from possible server loss by backing up the content on your site on a regular basis.

Simple CAPTCHA – CAPTCHA is a form utility to protect your blog from comment spam by web bots. A CAPTCHA places an images with random text that the user must manually type to submit their blog comment. This utility verifies the commenter is human, cutting down the potential for comment spam.

Link Popularity, Is It Really That Important?

I have been receiving e-mails from my readers asking me why we don’t talk about on-site optimization that much. Why we have been focusing on link popularity, and other off site techniques rather than telling you about Title tags, Page Headers, Keyword Density, and such. So I decided to create this post explaining why on-page optimization is far less important than simply creating one-way inbound links!

Fact: Many websites receive qualified search engine traffic due to link popularity alone. Most Flash-based websites are unable or unwilling to have any on-page criteria, and link development is often their only option.

So the question is, do flash based websites get ranked #1 on Google, Yahoo, Msn, and the other major search engines for highly competitive keywords & phrases?

Well let me show you a website that is currently ranking for one of the most competitive keywords that I know of with absolutely no relevance, no text, and a few internal links!

Search the keyword “SEO” in Google, it”normally” stands for Search Engine Optimization and it receives 5,000,000 global searches on Google alone per month! The competition is unheard of but yet this site “www.seo-usa.org” ranks #7 in Google, #10 in Yahoo, and #6 in Msn for this highly competitive keyword that is worth nothing to them!

The site in question “www.seo-usa.org” has the title “SEO Home” no real text, a couple internal links, and some graphics! Now you tell me, why does it rank so high in the major search engines? There is nothing there! It is obviously outranking sites that are far more relevant! Sites that have been optimized to the tee, or getting destroyed by this irrelevant web page!

So Why?

Wait for it….

Strong One-Way Inbound Links!

That’s right this site is for “Sponsors for Educational Opportunity” or SEO! So when sites linked to them they used the anchor text “SEO” and that is the only reason they are ranking so high for a search term that millions of other webmasters would love to have!

So a site that wasn’t even trying to compete for a very popular search term is dominating search results due to strong one-way links, and you can be too! So get out there and start creating links to your website now!

Directory Submission – SEO

“Directory submission can help you get search results you want for your website. Find out how various listings can impact your rankings.”

Submitting your site to directories despite what others may tell you is still very important. Since all the hype about web 2.0 properties and promoting your site through them, everybody seems to have forgotten about directory submissions.

Don’t be the person that forgets directory submissions or just stops using the technique because it is old. Directory submissions are still very important and will improve your link popularity! If you use web 2.0 properties to improve your link popularity that’s good! But always remember to also submit your site to niche specific directories and other leading directories as well.

As we said before, your aim is to get your website ranking high in the search engines. How successful you are in achieving this all depends on its online visibility. This visibility doesn’t just happen, it all comes down to hard work and continually building links.

The search engines decision as to where to place your website in the ranking system is due to a number of aspects. The most important aspect is building links and how valuable these links are. The more quality, one-way links your website has, the higher up the ranking system the search engine will place it. It may all sound straight-forward, but it is not so simple to get relevant one-way links from quality websites.

Directories are libraries of websites classified according to topic. They allow people searching for information to browse the categories looking for websites that interest them.

This in itself can get you visitors, but what we are interested in is the link to your website from the directories, so your rankings in the Google SERP’s will improve and your site will get more organic traffic.

Directory submissions are very popular and should be the first thing to do when you start a link-building campaign; just as you would announce your company’s telephone number to the yellow pages.

Google can easily determine which directories take it serious and actually review the submitted sites (which many don’t do and so create a crappy directory which has no value to Google) and only allow quality sites in their directory; so to Google those directory reviewer serve as a huge team of (free) human web site reviewers. That’s why those links will improve your rankings in the SERP’s (search engine result pages) significant for the words that have been used in the titles (anchor text) … as long your site has been submitted to the right directories of course!

Let’s help you to improve  your search engine visibility and organic search engine ranking for your website with proven and effective link popularity methods such as directory submission and contextual link popularity building. SEO Positions has been offering affordable link popularity and SEO Service for more than 2 years and have served more than 3000 clients. Here at SEO Positions we will submit your website to the right directories!

The average adult spends up to 3 hours a day more on the Internet than they spend watching television. About 70% of the U.S. population regularly use the Internet. Over one billion people in the world are online. And this is a vast chunk of your market!

These are your customers! But only if you have a website that draws them in. Unfortunately, not everyone understands the power of the Internet. You can make tons of sales through your online business and not using the Internet, or not maximizing your web presence can have devastating consequences.

That’s where search engine optimization comes into play! Since almost everybody online uses Google, Yahoo, Msn, Aol, or some other search engine it is very important that your website be listed on these engines and to be listed high for your targeted keywords!

If your website is listed on major search engines and optimized properly to rank high for the researched keywords that count and bring in tons of targeted traffic your business will succeed! Don’t be afraid of advertising online and having your website optimized for search engines because in the long run your internet business will last longer and make sales that you never dreamed possible!

If you read our other posts you will notice that we teach you more than just the basics of search engine optimization for free, and search engine optimization is exactly what your company needs!

Writing Fresh Content For Your Site!

Writing new content for your site could easily help boost your sites rankings in search engine results pages “SERPs” for the keywords you desperately target! Having more pages on your site with unique content will offer search engines more pages to index, and if the search engines index all of your new pages that gives you a ton of new entrances into your site!

You should add new content to your site because it will offer plenty of benefit in your search engine optimization campaign! If you don’t have an on site blog you should get one and you should post original content to it often! But don’t stop at posts! You should also add new unique articles to your site outside your blog!

Next you should start building links using our favorite tool “The Dofollow Blog Finder” and  don’t just build links to your main page! You should build links to all of your pages and blog posts!

But it has been said many times and I quote “Content Is King” and you should believe it! Content and incoming links are the two biggest factors in your rankings in Google, Yahoo, Msn, and most other search engines too!

So write your content and make sure that you build links to the content that you write and you cant loose!