Or do you find yourself feeling a bit like Gary Coleman…
He is talking about WordPress, yes?
If you’ve ever tried to optimize WordPress for SEO success you’ve probably said those exact words at some point… some crazy theme breaks something, or a plugin crashes the whole site, or in terms of SEO you get 971 duplicate pages back from your crawl report.
But I don’t think your troubles with WordPress are your fault entirely. I’ve been there too when I was first learning it! Gary Coleman has been there. But this post is an opportunity to move on from that…
Let’s Wipe That Gary Coleman Look Off Your Face!
There’s a lot of well meaning yet misguided info out there. After over two years of battling with (umm… using…) WordPress, I know it can be tricky and frustrating at times, and so I wanted to create a guide that might help clear some of this up.
I’m not here to get into every single little detail and variation, but rather to spend time on the core WordPress features and give special focus on SEO related WordPress issues.
Five Goals of This Post
- Clear up some confusion about WordPress terminology
- Explain that WordPress, being a dynamic CMS, is built on relationships (as in “relational database”) – and explain those relationships
- Show you some hands on, practical tips for setting up your WordPress site with an SEO focus
- Give you a few ways to cross check SEOmoz’s crawler diagnostics with other sources
- Get rid of that ‘ol Gary Coleman look!
For This Post, Let’s Assume
- We’re running wordpress.org (the self hosted version)
- This is a single author site (to keep it simple, although not hard to extend the concepts to multi-author)
- We’re not doing any ecommerce, photo galleries, or anything else you’d find in
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