Improving SEO in WordPress: H1, Title Tags & Custom URLs (Video Tutorial)
November 30, 2010 | SEO, Web Design
We design and build a lot of web sites for our clients using WordPress. WordPress allows us to create custom-designed and uniquely branded web sites that are easy for our clients to use.
One feature we really like about WordPress is that the web sites are very search engine friendly. Even using just the default features within WordPress, you’ll find yourself creating new pages and posts that will drive traffic to your site through search engines.
But, by spending just a few minutes customizing and adding keywords to your H1, title tags and permalinks, you can improve your search engine traffic even more.
Video Tutorial
In this video, I’ll walk you through how to use H1 tags, Title tags and custom URLs to add keywords and improve your SEO.
Resources
As mentioned in the video, you may want to use a plugin such as Platinum SEO Pack. This plugin allows you to override the title tag which is what shows at the top of your browser window.
If you want to start each post with a H1 tag, rather than the default page name, you’ll need to have your web site designer or developer change the code that pulls your page and post information from WordPress. This should be a straightforward request for someone familiar with WordPress, or this forum post may help.
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11 comments
This is a great tutorial for anyone just starting out with WordPress or for someone who just wants to learn more about what they can do to improve the site they have. This will be perfect to refer people to. Thanks!
Nice article and very useful video.
Thank you
Thanks for this little video tutorial I have been using all in one seo, is platinum seo better?
Thanks
seb: Welcome to the blog. The two plug-ins you mention: All-in-one-SEO pack and Platinum SEO pack are pretty similar and both will help you get your key words into your title tags, etc. This review is helpful in explaining the differences: http://siaargroup.blogspot.com/2010/11/platinum-seo-plugin-vs-all-in-one-seo.html
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Hi,
I will be emailing you witht his question in case you don’t see it but i thought I’d ask it here too for the benefit of your readers.
Where did you get the @ format@ option on your text editor, the one you use to manually set yp the header tags? I don’t have them in my text editor which causes me to have to modify my header tags with inconvenient plugins (would prefer to do it manually).
Thanks for replying.
Kind Regards,
Rogelio
Rogelio @ Manly Curls – The Blog for Curly Hair Men
Rogelio, If I understand correctly, I think you’ll want to use Platinum SEO Pack or the All-in-One SEO pack to get that form field to automatically come up. Those are plugins. Then you can add in header tags there. Let me know if I did not understand you right.
I am using free wordpress theme which does not have H1 tag at all. Please tell me how to add H1 tag
@thesanyamjain You’ll have to get into the code and set it up so that there is a page title and then an actual H1 tag on the page.
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