Lets Build Websites

Building Wordpress Websites That Make Money Online

You are here: Home / Wordpress Website Tutorials / Video Tutorials / Publish Posts in Your Wordpress Website the Correct SEO Way

Publish Posts in Your WordPress Website the Correct SEO Way

by

I actually teach people how to make WordPress websites, add content to them, and get found by the Search Engines. The biggest problem I have found is that they forget to fill in all the details when attempting to publish a post. Some beginners have been know to even forget to put a title to the post. This is a bit extreme but it has really happened!

Publish posts in your WordPress Website the correct SEO way

  • You need a WordPress website. Ha ha, we all know that!
  • You will need the free plugin “The all in one SEO pack”. Please see top SEO plugins.

Posting content to your WordPress website

  1. Write a descriptive title to your post. Try and think what people would type into the search engines for this subject. What words would be the most common. Make sure your title has at least 5 – 10 words in it..Anymore is overkill. The title is going to catch the fish so make it great! Include your keyword. Here is a great way to find keywords to use in the title.
  2. Fill in the body of your post. Make sure each post is over 500 words, more if possible. Visitors do not like to go to a web page with two sentences of information on it. They will leave in a second. I have my own web content strategy that helps me write top content for my websites. You should also add subtitles with your keywords throughout the post, at least one bulleted list, and some bolded keywords. Google loves good information and you will be rewarded for it. Here are a 10 Onpage SEO tips you should know.
  3. Fill in your tags. These are basically keywords that apply to your post and title. They are not about the website. It’s all about what’s in the post. This is how you let people know what it is about.
  4. Choose a category. Do not publish posts in the uncategorized section. If you do then this will show up in your category list. You should try to choose a category that relates to the post. So therefore if the person clicks on the category, they know there will be posts related to that. You WordPress website categories should be set up when building your website and you should be using (LSI) related keywords. Here is an article on how to setup WordPress categories.
  5. Fill in your SEO details. You might have All in one SEO pack or you might have a theme that includes this option like I have with Thesis. Also the free plugin from Yoast, WP SEO is great for keeping you on track.

Learning How to Blog in WordPress

For more information please watch the video below. Please note this is an older video and a new one is further down the page. WordPress changes often as it moves with the times so I might not use some of the options mentioned in this video. You could watch both the old one and the new one to see the difference?

I moved ALL of my websites into one amazing content management system because publishing a post in a WordPress website is just so damn easy! Yes there are a few details to follow if you really want to do the right thing, however it is just a matter of getting used to a system. You can simply add some content into the post section of WordPress dashboard and you can simply press the publish button. This is probably the easy way out.

In the video below (2013)  I show you how to publish a post in a WordPress website or blog the right way. This means filling out all the details that are necessary, which includes search engine optimization, and just plain old website content etiquette. There are some unspoken rules in the world of websites such as using capital letters in the title of your post, or adding meta descriptions and SEO details behind the scenes.

Here is a quick checklist to follow when publishing a WordPress website post

  • Add a title to your post that is catchy and explains what your article is about.
  • Add your content into the content section.
  • Create some subheadings that will stand out and allow users to jump to sections of your article.
  • Add in tags which can also be called keywords.
  • Add a meta description, which is the blurb that will show up in the search engines, so make it good.
  • Add some links two other posts on your website that relate to your article.
  • Add an outgoing link to another website if you have used their image all the information.
  • Choose a category for your post.
  • Monetise your content sparingly and intelligently.

Comments

  1. by using a related posts plugin. These plugins search through your posts database to find posts with the same subject, and add links to these posts you can get search engines to get to your older content a bit easier, thus increasing your WordPress SEO capabilites a LOT
    scooby recently posted..Yes !! You can workout at home !!

  2. A lot of beginners pay huge sums of money to SEO consults, when all they need to do are those few simple steps. By just using descriptive and keyword filled titles to their post, they can start to direct a lot of search traffic to their site. Having an article or post that encourages blog commenting is also a great way to improve rankings as well.

  4. One way of getting search engines to get to your older content a bit easier, thus increasing your WordPress SEO capabilites a LOT, is by using a related posts plugin. These plugins search through your posts database to find posts with the same subject, and add links to these posts.

  5. Keyword research is so very important when posting content. I have my own method that works pretty good and is similar to your checklist. I still use thed Adwords keyword tool to do my basic research, but I also look carefully at the sites that are ranking for those keywords as well.

    • Hi there Tony
      I use:
      All in SEO pack
      Google xml sitemaps
      SEOpressor

      I am very happy with this combination so I have not felt the need to try others. My websites are always a success so I stick to the same thing through and through…

      Yoast sounds great..What else does it do ?
      mitz recently posted..SEO Keyword Research Tips and Tricks

  7. Now everyone can have a better understanding on how to make their wordpress pages more profitable. Your article made things much clearer on how to manage your wordpress posts the SEO way that will effectively get you on high rankings with search engines. Something that some may seem to be neglecting.

  9. This is so frustrating. The way you describe it Mitz, WP is very amazing. If only I could turn back time, if only I read your post first before I started my website. I opt to choose WP instead. This was very helpful. I’ll tell it to my friends though. Will keep on coming back!
    Nate recently posted..Beginning Bodybuilding Workout Routines for Men

  11. This is really helpful, once you have downloaded all in one seo pack you can easily optimize your post/article. This will help you and will give you traffic. I enjoyed reading informative blogs like this. Will keep on coming by, i might get lots of new ideas i can apply to my business as well.
    Casey recently posted..Circuit Weight Lifting Workouts

  13. Hi. i need to ask some thing about wordpress
    i am using wordpress but facing difficulty in most of the things..i am not familiar with the proper track of it .
    hope so i will not take much time
    now a days i am thinking to do 2 things on my website but dont know how to do that
    1st one = instead of older post and newer posts icon at the bottom of the page i want to make a numeric value like page 1 2 3 4 5 … i hope u get that bcz i dont know the exact name of it
    2nd one = i want to make a scroll down in the main navigation bar like http://www.thechive.com
    but dont know how to do it..can u plz guide me about it ..
    thanks in advance and waiting for ur reply
    regards

    • I see that your website has page numbers installed now, but the menu depends on the theme you are using.

  14. leaded to me another question does it means that I needed to enabling all the plug in that I install??

  15. Hi jennifer
    Have you gone to settings – all in one seo- to enable the plugin. If you have done this then have you tried disabling the plugin and enabling it again. Also you can delete it….and install it again…

        • Go to the settings tab on the sidebar in your WordPress dashboard. Find the All in one SEO plugin. Go through the settings and fill in the title, description, and keywords for your blog…tick the box that says enable and then scroll to the bottom to save it.

  16. Thanks

    MIGRATING TO WP AS i have it
    on my cpanel. Still playing around
    but the intention is to build my new site on wp.

    Sorry about the soccer, but hey still a great country with great
    rugby team. Look forward to tri-nations
    Will be dropping by regularly to check our new posts

    Sincere regards and tks again
    (never realized “down under”
    had so many talented web folks)

    • LOL “down under” Yeah we finally caught on to the idea that you can make money online… But there are not that many of us. There are so many non believers!

      And WP kicks butt!!!! I moved a huge website to it recently and everything went up….Income, traffic, everything… WordPress websites are the go… Not just blogs now!

Related Posts

Letsbuildwebsites.com runs on the Genesis Framework

Genesis Theme Framework for WordPress

When I changed to the Genesis Framework and the eleven40 Theme my page load score went from 58 to 79 instantly. This was without any optimization at all. The other thing about this framework and theme is that it was so simple to setup that I can highly recommend it to each and every person that visits this blog! Genesis is the smart choice for your WordPress website or blog.

Recent Posts

Get Email Updates

Get notified when we post new building website tips

We respect your privacy!