Getting started with Wordpress and SEO, Video by Matt Cutts and Wordcamp 2009

September 13, 2009 by Kushel
Filed under Featured Videos, Latest, Wordpress

This is a great video by Matt Cutts, shot at Wordcamp 2009. Matt, in his own highly entertaining style, talks about how to get started with creating your own Wordpress blog, and the basics of SEO and ranking.

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In summary, Matt covers:

- How to do well in Google. ‘Wordpress solves a ton of SEO issues, 80% to 90% of the mechanics of Search Engine Optimisation’, i.e. the crawability of a site.

- Useful Plugins to improve your site, for example, Cookies for Comments (spam prevention). On a side note, I have been looking at Plugins for a couple of weeks now, look out for my Post on this, coming shortly!

- Pagerank, the higher your Pagerank, the faster your pages will be found, the deeper your site gets crawled, and the more often your site gets crawled. It is not just about how many people link to you, but the ‘QUALITY’ of those links.

- Keywords and how they can be used to structure titles and URL’s. The Google Keyword Tool can be used to find top ranking keywords for your subject, hence aid you in picking up traffic via Word Targetting.

- Wordpress Permalinks and how to structure your URL’s to give ‘meaning’ for better ranking.

- Finding your niche and gaining reputation!

Finally, I would just like to say, thank you Matt! – and I hope you like my site!