WordPress is a great CMS platform that offers anyone the chance to easily scale their projects up and ensure they are SEO friendly from the groundup. WordPress is a great platform for SEO because of the 19,098 plugins available you can be certain to find a number of plugins to do everything you need. This presentation highlights some common issues, and suggests some great SEO plugins to easily resolve the issue and make your site SEO friendly.

1. WordPress Melbourne Meetup
WordPress & SEO

2. How to improve WordPress for SEO
• Reduce Pingback/comment spam
• Enable Permalinks
• Google Analytics
• XML Sitemaps
• Work Smarter with SEO Plugins
• Ensure you use 301s
• Optimise Internal Links
• Manage Multiple Sites
• Improve Load times
• Quick Contact Forms
• Monetise Your Site

4. Reduce Comment Spam (WP Settings)

5. Don’t Chase Algorithms

6. Enable Permalinks (Keyword URLs)

7. Dynamic URLs

8. Static URLs

9. Dynamic Website Structure

10. Static Website Structure

11. Google Analytics (Easy Tagging)

12. XML Sitemaps (Google XML Sitemaps)

13. Visualize How Much Google Indexes

14. Work Smarter with SEO Plugins

15. Control SEO elements at Post/Page Level

16. Reduce Duplicate Content (Canonical)

17. Control SEO elements at Post/Page Level

18. Ensure You Redirect Old Pages

19. Optimising Relationship Between Sites

20. Optimising Relationship Between Sites

21. Optimising Relationship Between Sites

22. Optimising Relationship Between Sites

23. Optimising Relationship Between Sites

24. Optimising Relationship Between Sites

25. Smarter Internal Links (Similarity)

26. Smarter Internal Links (Similarity)

27. Manage Multiple Sites (ManageWP)

28. Check Page Load times (Pingdom)

29. Improve Page Load Times (W3 Total Cache)

30. Quick Contact Form (Goals)

31. Contact Form 7 (Quick Forms)

32. Monetise your Site (VigLink)

33. Use Adsense Plugins for Testing