Yoast’s Definitive Guide to WordPress SEO
Joost De Valk, a leader in WordPress plugin development, has recently re-launched his blog under a new brand name “Yoast” which is how his name is phonetically pronounced. With the launch of Yoast.com comes an amazing WordPress SEO guide.
Visit: The Definitive Guide to High Rankings for Your Blog
While I must admit I have not read completely through the article due to it’s comprehensive nature. Virtually everything you could possibly imagine related to optimizing your WordPress based website is included.
The guide is broken down into 7 main optimization points:
- Basic Technical Optimization
- Template Optimization
- Advanced Technical Optimization
- Altering Your Blog’s Structure for High Rankings
- Conversion Optimization
- Comment Optimization
- Off Site Blog SEO
This is a must read for anyone serious about the success of their blog!
If you like Joost’s WordPress SEO guide then you will love his professional and extremely useful WordPress Plugins. I especially recommend the RSS Footer plugin for anyone who’s blog content is being syndicated elsewhere.







June 13th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I recently just started to learn about WordPress blogging and a lot of my online friends have mentioned Joost’s name with much reverence. And he’s right to call his article the “definitive guide” to high blog ranking because it is. When you called the article “comprehensive,” the first thing that came to my mind was that it’s bound to be long so I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it’s not as long as I initially thought it would be. Some people would pay to have something like this in a book and yet, Joost is giving this one for free so mad props for him.
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June 13th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Thx guys! appreciate the review!
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September 12th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Wordpress is a great blogging platform and getting it search engine optimized really isn’t a hard task. Using proper permalinks and robots.txt file to prevent duplicate content and a few other methods can really make a difference. The All in One SEO plugin is really the best bet.
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Excellent post. The guides are very useful and thanks for this information. It really helped me alot, wordpress is great blog site to work with.
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January 16th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Very informative, thank you. I’ll check out yoast asap.
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March 4th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Thank you for the tips. I am in the process of designing a new site and researching SEO so that I can optimize my pages for the search engines, sooner than later.
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March 21st, 2009 at 7:26 am
thank you for the great tips they will come in handy.
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April 21st, 2009 at 10:52 am
Enjoying the dotsauce articles and great link to Yoast.com - just what i’m looking for.
Thanks Guys
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June 28th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Great post. And great resource. You are right someone would be willing to pay for this in a book… Here’s another great, free (should be in a book) SEO resource that I came across — also very helpful.
http://sbimonline.com/content/quick-start-guide-seo-search-engine-optimization-basics-small-business
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June 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
But I think for any CMS best is Joomla but for blogs you can also try with silverstripe this is open source and nice one
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