Wordpress has proved itself that it’s the best script to use for your website, It’s free, easy to use, plenty of free themes and thousands of free plugins. Thousands of people who are using Wordpress are not taking advantage of all the available features that could increase traffic and visibility to search engines. If you just installed Wordpress or have been using it for a while just follow these simple steps and increase the traffic to your blog



Enable Search engines : You must allow search engines to crawl your website so your pages get indexed, You can allow this by going to Control Panel > Settings > Privacy > I would like my blog to be visible to everyone

Make sure of your Permalink : Search engines spiders have big difficulties crawling websites that have symbols like ?&%$ in the address link you can fix that by changing the format of your address link from Control Panel > Settings > Permalink > Day and name

Install ” All in one SEO ” : This is a great plugin that will make it very easy for search engines to find your articles, It allows you to add Tags to your article + A description of the article etc. You can download it HERE

Create a Site map : Sitemaps are very important for search engines it makes it easier for their spiders to crawl your website and index it, you can create a site map manually or automatically by installing XML-site map which will do everything for you. You can download XML-site map HERE

Be sure from your titles : Choose the best  titles for your articles and the most relevant because it really makes a difference with search engines

Optimize your pictures : Whenever you add a picture to your articles make sure you add a description about it you will be amazed by the amount of traffic you will get from Image search engines

Ping List : Make sure of your Ping list ” the Ping list are the websites you would like to inform whenever you add something new to your website ” It would help you to spread the word of anything new

After you are done with the 7 must do steps you will notice the big change in your traffic and your visibility to search engines which would generate organic traffic to you.