And yes, he said that if he were starting a business and wanted to drive traffic to his website then he would install a WordPress blog. He said that WordPress is the perfect tool for search engine optimization (SEO).

Even when you've picked one structure, you're still left with some pages which have no real use for the search engine. Your frontpage only contains 10 posts, usually, and when you have more, they go to /page/2/, /page/3/ etc. This will prevent search engines from showing these pages, while allowing them to follow the links to your posts. Do the same to your login and registration pages, and your search result pages with the same plugin.

It is now 28 Jan 2007, 8 months after the first post, and the creation of the index page for the Search Engine Optimization Blog phrase. The index page of the site is now ranked 136th for the phrase.

Even when you're running a one author blog, WordPress will automatically create an "author" archive, which is a listing of all posts made by each author. They have some use on multi author blogs, but on one author blogs you should disable them, using the robots meta plugin as well.

An important way of getting both your visitors and the search engines to find more related content on your blog is using a related posts plugin. Adding them in is quite easy, as they both consist of just a few lines of code to add to your template.

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