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Jan

Wordpress SEO tip - All roads lead to home

Posted by stuart as seo, search engine optimization, wordpress

Out of the box, Wordpress gets an awful lot right as far as SEO goes. That’s not to say, though, that there’s not a few things you can do to make it even better.

Today, I’m going to look at internal linking, and an easy way to optimise for your main keyword on your home page.

Internal anchor text linking to your home page is a great way to improve your ranking for your chosen keyword, the more links using the right anchor text pointing to your home page, the better you’re going to rank for those keywords. Of course, this is not a replacement for inbound links, but this technique is something we can easily control, without relying on external sites linking to us, or running around like a headless chook commenting on other blogs.

So off we go:

Firstly, run on over to Headzoo and grab the aLinks plugin. Unzip it and upload it to your Wordpress plugins folder.

Activate the plugin, then look for the aLinks button in your WordPress console:

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Click that link, and you’ll be taken to the aLinks Console. Click the “keyphrases” tab across the top of the console:

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Now, we want to scroll down the page a little till we get to the section titled “General Keyphrases”, and fill in the three fields as follows (using your information of course):

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Now hit the big “Update Keyphrases” button, and now (using the above example), every time the term “SEO” appears on my blog (even in old posts!), it will link to the home page of this blog, using the above title text.

Easy! :-)

12 comments so far

Boudin says January 26th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

Man, this was actually a very useful article for me! I have been neglecting internal linking to home page a lot. Doh! Thank you for reminding me. I need to go do some work now.

:O)

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stuart says January 26th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

You’re welcome Boudin, glad you foind it useful! :-)

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Dave Starr --- ROI Guy says January 27th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

Hmm, had to read and re-read this post a number of times to make sure I wasn’t missing somehting. Every single time in the past I’ve seen an article like this about internal linking it was so complicated or tedious sounding. I can’t find the catch here … can it really be this simple? I’m off for the plug-in right now and we shall see … thanks a lot.

stuart says January 28th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

Hi Dave, glad you liked it. :-)

I’d be keen to know how you went setting it all up?

Cheers

Stu

Simlock verwijderen says February 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 am

I am always searching and reading about topics which learning the reader how to influence the income with your bog, how to increase your blog visitors total and such things. This blog really helped me to estalibish my goals.

Dave Starr --- ROI Guy says February 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

Well the plug-in is both simple enough (to use for this suggested purpose) and as complex as any I have worked with … perhaps with some of those Amazon links I could even coax a payment out of those guys. Working good so far, thanks.

Adam says February 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Oh man, you have just save me a TON of messing around with keywords. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!

?kinci El Buhar Kazan? says March 4th, 2008 at 6:06 am

I have used wordpress on my sites for one year. It’s ver useful for Seo I think.

Wedding Ideas says March 11th, 2008 at 7:20 am

Being able to update all your keywords at once throughout a large blog is a very nice feature. I am glad someone thought this up and you posted about it!

Gucci Handbags says June 6th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

As far as what you said about using proper anchor text within your own site, I couldn’t have said it better. So many people don’t understand that using anchor text like “home”, or “click here” really isn’t doing you many favors. Great post!

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