Building Websites with Wordpress and SEO in Mind

Wordpress

If we talk about building websites, using WordPress is perhaps the fastest and easiest way to get content online fast. There are numerous WordPress plugins to choose from along with great themes and widgets for WordPress. SEO plugins and widgets that add meta tags and site maps help to get new sites indexed fast, something that everyone who is building websites wants to see. I am a big fan of WordPress and have attended several WordCamp conventions. On the Web Development Blog as well as on FinalWebsites.com, I share information about using Wordpress to build websites, how to customize WordPress Templates and Wordpress SEO. This is also where I share several bbPress plugins to include a forum on your WordPress site and tips for bbPress SEO.

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Wordpress Plugins

  • Google XML Sitemaps
    This plugin will generate a XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google to index index your blog. Using the plugin settings it's possible to decide which part of your Wordpress site is inluced or not.
  • Akismet
    The Akismet plugin checks all submitted comments against the Akismet web database to see if they look like spam or not. The plugin comes with every Wordpress installation and it's important to enable this plugin.
  • WordPress.com Stats (JetPack)
    We strongly advice Google Analytics for your website statistics, but this plugin gives you essential traffic information right on the Wordpress dashboard. Using this information, you get an good idea about current traffic or if a new blog post is popular or not. UPDATE: The WordPress.com Stats plugin is now a module of JetPack a plugin package maintained by Automattic the founder of Wordpress.

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