http://website-creation-tips.com/index.php/2009/06/07/how-to-set-up-a-wordpress-blog-that-is-search-engine-optimized-in-5-important-ways/

There are even more and you can check out www.WordPress.org for a more complete listing.

Automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines
(Search Engine Optimization).

This is a great plugin and considered essential in our book of WordPress goodies.  Having a good title, along with the proper meta tags in your source code, is important when it comes to people finding your pages when searching with Google or Yahoo.  It allows you to have a title that appears in the top of your browser that is more descriptive then what the title of the post is.  Your blogs post title can be general but your title tag can be more specific.  Plus it helps if your theme has a small sidebar and you make titles only big enough to fit. Your title tag can be longer.  It also creates a description out of the beginning text of your post and adds keywords that match your tags.  All your pages are different to the indexing robots and thats a good thing.  It will do everything automatically but the great part is you can also tweak each individual tag as you create or edit a post or page.

FROM  THE AUTHOR’S WEBSITE

Here’s how the author describes the plugin’s use…..

How to use it

Here is a list of the most important on-page ranking factors and how they are addressed by this WordPress SEO plugin. You might want to visit Options – All in One SEO to tweak the default options.

• Titles
  The text that you see in your browser’s window bar is the most important thing *on* your page. Make sure your titles are getting rewritten and the important stuff (your post titles) always come before anything else. You can leave a few words from your blog title to do some branding but don’t overdo. If your post titles don’t contain your most precious phrases you want to rank for then tweak them. Leave the post titles as it is but change the meta title.
• Descriptions
  Once your pages rank in search engines your description (aside of course from your title) makes a potential visitor want to click through, or not. It’s mta descriptions, believed dead by many people, that decide over your site’s fate. If you don’t want to invest the time and write a description for every post at least let them be auto-generated. This vastly better than the usual “Share This … Posted on … under …” description that is often used. The preferred source for your post description is your post excerpt. Use this when you want to tweak your description.
• Keywords
  All in One SEO Pack can generate them from your categories (this was the old way of tagging your posts in wordpress) or from Ultimate Tag Warrior or, starting with WordPress 2.3, the built-in tagging system. Using your categories is optional, the rest is auto-detected and used if there. WP 2.3.x tags are the preferred keyword source.
• Duplicate Content
  You can have “noindex” and the like generated for archive-, category- and tag pages if you seem to have trouble with duplicate content.

Installation is a breeze.  Just upload the package to your plugins folder and activate it in your dashboard.  It does have an options area that lets you adjust different things but the defaults work just fine and the author knows more about it then most of us.

Questions or comments welcome!

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How to create great headlines and titles to turn your prospects into buying customers using hypnotic words that will empower them to purchase your product or service, or even join your ezine.

First of all, you must learn how to get your prospects to trust you. This is true on every field. We trust those that are more like ourselves or one that we have been conditioned to believe.

“How many of you do not trust a car salesman? This is because you have been repeatedly told over and over again, how they can not be trusted. Not every car salesman is going to give you a bad deal, just as every young man with long hair and holes in their jeans are not criminals.”

All of us resist people we do not trust, even though it starts in our subconscious mind. So, you must learn how to get your prospects to trust you with an unconscious connection.

This can be done by perceiving others behavior and mimicking or mirroring it so to speak. To rich this we must use “embedded commands”.

What are embedded commands? This is a term from NLP that stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP is founded on then idea that the language and behavior of a person is extremely ordered. These behaviors and language can be either functional or dysfunctional. This order or structure can be organized into a mimicking form.

This means that others can copy the language or behavior of another to produce the same results in order to improve there late comings. This in essence means that the way in which we act or feel is based on how we perceive the world instead of the real world.

An embedded command is a technique used in NLP, which will plant a thought in the mind of another person just beneath that person’s conscious awareness. Embedded commands utilize the use of commanding tone to be effective. The command generally formulates words into a question, with the tone however being in the form of a command.

The reason people use embed commands is to get their listener to do you wish them to do in a non-intrusive or demanding manner.

Example

Look at this sentence:

“You should buy this software.”

Now look at the same sentence only written a little differently. “You know, that some people find they really want to purchase this software.”

What happened in the second sentence is that you let the person know that other people want to purchase this software and like most people they believe in their own minds they are better than most people or at least want to know as much as everyone else put there.

You can also use the same sentence and use other hypnotic phrases such as:

I don’t know if you knew it, but some people find they really want to purchase this software.

And I’d like to have you discover… that some people find they really want to purchase this software.

Headlines that Control the Mind

You will need to learn how to write headlines that will control the mind of your prospects. Yes, this is possible.

Three elements you must have in your headline to control the mind include:

Engagement: The easiest way to engage thought is by asking an open-ended question.

Curiosity: Mother nature has endowed each of us to be curious creatures, appeal to a person’s curiosity and you can hypnotize almost everyone.

Short and Sweet: In general, most people want to know at glance what the letter is all about. Use a headline that is short. You can always use a longer headline as a secondary headline or sub headline. The first short headline should lead into the longer headline, which can be more hypnotic than the first one. You need to create cravings if you want prospects.

In reality, people do not purchase products; they purchase altered states of emotion. You must convince your prospects that the products will give them something they desire or crave.

You must have a product that is in area of human desire. Remember everyone wants to look and feel younger, thinner, have more energy, and of course have more stamina.

Let us see some examples of good headlines.

For Health fitness products:

Eat Right, Stay Fit, Feel Young, Gain Energy, Enjoy Less Pain

Headlines for relationships:

Attract the opposite sex, Find True Love, Improve Communication with your kids, Be noticed by your Boss, Be admired by coworkers

Headlines for finance and employment:

Be successful, Gain more knowledge, Scale the ladder of success, Get the promotion you deserve, Fire your boss

These examples are here to show you how to create your own effective headlines. Your headlines must convince your prospects that they really need you product or service. People usually buy what they want, not what they need.

About The Author:

Branko Rakic:

Millions Through Mind Control http://masscontrol.tosobiz.com/

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By Andrew J Hansen

One of the best things about using WordPress (or any blog) as your content management system is that they come with certain features that give them an advantage in the quest for high rankings and big traffic from the search engines.

Unfortunately however, they still aren’t perfect, and there are many steps you need to take in order to ensure that your blog and it’s content are ranking as highly as you desire in the major search engines.

Of course, high search engine rankings are a combination of both on page and off page factors. While many people work hard on getting links and building exposure through off page factors, they often overlook the most basic elements of search engine success, the on page factors.

This article is going to look at two tips for doing everything you can to ensure high rankings for your WordPress blog and all it’s content.

Part 1: Permalinks

The first thing you need to do if you want the most traffic possible for your WordPress blog is to adjust your permalink structure.

The way you do this is by clicking on, in your WordPress Admin area, Settings on the left vertical menu, and then selecting Permalinks.

You’ll see a number of options:

Default http://yourdomain.com/?p=123
Day and name http://yourdomain.com/2009/02/15/sample-post/
Month and name http://yourdomain.com/2009/02/sample-post/
Numeric http://yourdomain.com/archives/123

Options 1 and 4 have to be avoided like the plague. You MUST have your permalinks set so that the name of your post (and hopefully the keywords you’re trying to target) appear inside your URL.

Another good permalink structure to use is select CUSTOM and enter:

/%category%/%postname%

Again it ensures that your keywords are going to appear in the URL rather than an arbitrary, NUMBER for the name of your post.

Part 2: Blog Post Titles

Once that’s done you’re ready to move on and start creating your post. This next tip relates to when you’re actually on the write post page and making your content.

The first thing you need to do is create a quality post title. A quality blog post title is one that both appeals to your readers and satisfies the search engines such that they will rank your post for the keywords you want to rank for.

So say you’re writing a post that you want to target the keyword “WordPress SEO” – an appropriate title might be:

“WordPress SEO: How To Perfectly Optimize Your Blog For Search Traffic”

This has the keyword in the title FIRST and also has an appealing “how to” headline type statement that is exciting and appealing to a potential reader. This ensures not only that your post will rank well, but when it DOES get the rankings, it will get clicked and your site will get viewed.

These are the first two steps to successful on page optimization of your WordPress blog content.

Having earned almost a million dollars over the past three years as an online marketer, http://andrewhansen.name  Andrew Hansen is a leading expert in the field of blogging in niche markets. Get your free report on finding profitable niches and making thousands of dollars per month from them at http://crapcuttermarketing.com

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