How do I get my WordPress posts to appear on the first page of search results?
Question:
When Someone googles something that relates to one of my wordpress blogs how can I get it to appear on the first page of their search results?? Thanks!
Answer:
The answer you are looking for is search engine optimization. This is optimizing everything in your website to show up in search results better. The first thing you’ll want to do is submit your site to the search engines so they can crawl and index your site. If they haven’t seen it yet, it will never show up. Use Google Webmaster Tools to submit your site and sitemap.
Next you want to determine what keywords you want to rank for. Example, if you want to show up in search results for dog training. You’ll want those words in the title of the post, in the url of the post and several other times throughout the post. You want to have it bold in a couple places and underlined in others. Sometimes you’ll want it in h1,h2 and h3 size text. All of these help rank higher, but this is not a comprehensive SEO tutorial.
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