If you use wordpress you need to know how to properly set up your on page SEO for search engine marketing. Wordpress is pretty search engine friendly right out of the box but there are a few changes you will want to make to get it indexed faster and more often. One of the changes, if not done, could keep your site from getting indexed all together. Here are a few things you can do:

Once you have wordpress installed and set up, the first change you will want to make is to your permalinks. Go to the settings menu and click on permalinks. Use a custom permalink structure with only the post name. This will give you a link structure for your posts and pages that is just your domain with the post or page name after it. No dates or post numbers, the post or page name should contain the main keywords you are trying to get that page to rank for so this is all you want in the URL.

The next change you will need to make is to install the All In One SEO Plugin. This free wordpress plugin will make sure the search engines pick up exactly what you want on every page. You simply fill in the boxes on your editor when you are creating a new post or page and the plugin will override the default wordpress setup with the custom info you entered, ensuring you are always showing the search engines exactly what you want to show them.

Then, you will want to install recent posts and recent comments plugins. This will put your most recent posts and your most recent visitors comments in your sidebar. This is good for on page SEO because it increases the amount of dynamic content you have on your home page giving search engines more stuff to snack on, but it also improves your linking structure because your home page is now linking to more pages within your site and other relevant sites.

Here’s the big one, miss this and you may never get your blog indexed in the search engines! In settings/privacy in your admin panel make sure the option to make your blog visible to everyone is checked. Without this checked, the search engines cannot index your site. Wordpress started making the “block search engines” box checked by default in later versions so you need to make sure that this setting is correct.

There are many more ways you can optimize Wordpress on page SEO for search engine marketing but these few steps are a great start to getting your blog indexed high in the search engines.

Thanks for reading!! Leave me a comment below and let me know your favorite on page SEO technique.

Yeah, I know, sounds difficult, it’s not! By the time you finish this article you will understand how Wordpress can be used as a membership site and why Wordpress is a great choice for this purpose.

Wordpress is in mine, and many others, opinions the best blogging platform around, and whether you know it or not, it can be used for other types of sites besides blogs.

Did you know that content memberships are some of the best selling products online right now? Huge fortunes are being made from membership sites!

Why? For several reasons.

1. They put all the content in one convenient place, the visitors know exactly where to go to get what they want, whenever they need it. They don’t have to search all over the internet for the stuff they want.

2. The content is typically “dripped out” over time so the visitors don’t get overwhelmed with trying to use the content.

3. Getting 1 product or video or whatever per day or week is a lot easier to assimilate than getting a whole course at once and then trying to put to use everything at the same time.

4. The overall price is usually much cheaper than buying all of the components separately.

These 4 reasons lead to the fact that content memberships tend to be fast sellers and great money makers.

So what’s this about using Wordpress for membership sites? Wordpress is becoming more and more versatile with every update. It is not just for blogging anymore!

Wordpress can now be used for all kinds of applications, squeeze pages, sales pages, affiliate sites, static looking sites, and yes, membership sites.

Now you can create a members only site, protect the private members area, drip feed content for weeks or months at a time, and even sell your prospects all using Wordpress.

How is this done? It’s very easy actually. You just install Wordpress using the famous 5 minute install process. Add a few choice plugins, add a very simple but versatile theme, make a few small tweaks such as the permalinks and you’re done!

Your new membership site is all ready to accept members, just add content. You can even make your sales letter to sell the thing with Wordpress. How easy is this sounding to you?

It really is easy enough for anyone to do once you learn how wordpress works.

So, why should you use Wordpress to create your membership site?

Because the search engines love it! Wordpress has been created to be extremely SEO friendly, this means that it has been put together so that it automatically attracts the search engines to your site.

It also encourages people to help you promote your site with various features such as social media links, RSS feeds, permalinks, and a friendly, easy to navigate format.

Plugins such as recent posts and comments, advanced SEO, advanced social media linking, ad containers, and subscribe to comments plugins make your wordpress site even more attractive to search engines and visitors.

So, do you think you can get a ton more members using the Wordpress platform for your membership sites?

I do. Sometimes I get sales before I have even promoted the site at all just because of the attractiveness of Wordpress as a site platform.

with the huge amount of plugins, themes, and information available for Wordpress, it really does become a complete no brainer to use it for all kinds of sites.

I used to spend weeks building sites from scratch and then weeks more updating and changing links but now I can deploy pretty much any type of site I like within minutes using Wordpress.

To know exactly, step by step, how to turn Wordpress into a membership site and make it convert like crazy, watch as this membership site whiz shows you his secrets at Membership Site Tactics.

To discover how to turn Wordpress into a sales letter that pulls like mad, watch him create a sales page right before your eyes at WordpressLetter.