I have read alot and seems to have confused the hell out of me, so looking for some pointers from experienced bloggers here.
THANKS!
Will show you some gambling sites, or sites built on wordpress that don’t look like a blog.. but a website.
Top, no time wasting plugins for me, which have benefit for experience, ease of use, and SEO are
At the very least.. these plugins as default for any wordpress setup.
Contact Form 7 – best and easy to use contact form
Web Ninja Google Analytics – Enable Google Analytics on all of your pages instantly and add Google Analytics Stats to your Admin Dashboard and Posts. Can track external links, mailto links, and download links on your site.
WP-Table Reloaded – This plugin allows you to create and easily manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. A comfortable backend allows an easy manipulation of table data. You can then include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML.
SEO Ultimate (most people use the plugin “All in One SEO Pack”) – This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over title tags, noindex/nofollow, meta tags, rich snippets, slugs, canonical tags, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets, and more.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines
Other things you should mess around with in WordPress
In the WordPress Admin
click Settings -> Permalinks ->
mess around with the custom structure, so you have nice looking URLS.
-Yoast SEO. By far my favorite plugin for SEO
-Google News Sitemap. Automatically submits all of your content to google to be indexed in google news
-Email Notify. Allows you to collect e-mail addresses from comments, and also allows users to subscribe to future comments so they are notified if they get a reply to their comment
-Sharebar. Excellent plugin to place your social media buttons in the best place
-WP Page Navi. Allows you to have more control over your pagination, rather than just having older entries. Helps google to crawl your older pages of content more easily.
-Akismet. Necessary to block out comments!
-Better WordPress Minify. Helps you to minify your CSS and JS files for a faster site load time.
rak, I will get in touch with you after Vegas. thanks!
-Yoast SEO. By far my favorite plugin for SEO
Hey bud, tell me more about Yoast, whats the big deal about it? From memory I think they were the first big wordpress plugin from memory.
I could read about Yoast… but.. want a marketeers perspective..
I suggest “mscs redirect after comment” – It sends the spammer to whatever url you want after they have ‘commented’.
Lots of fun possibilties!!!!
Belgamo, Are you going to Vegas on the weekend of the 24th for the meetup? I planned on going but as usual something came up.
I wrote this post for the castle casino affiliate blog section, its the basic plugins and best set up for wordpress sites in my opinion How to Set up your Casino Affiliate WordPress site for Maximum SEO Benefits | Castle Affiliates – Blog
Good recommendations.
I also use the ones you mentioned depending upon the type of site it is
All in one SEO pack
WP Super Cache
SEO SMART LINKS (good for sites feeding into a money site)
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