Wordpress blogs are exploding all over the web. With ease of deployment and simple but effective interface, Wordpress has established itself as the front runner in blogging tech.

Here are 5 quick Wordpress tweaks you can make to improve your SEO.

• permalinks. learn what they are and use them. most search engines won’t rank dynamic url’s.
• post new content regularly. Content is King!
• don’t use “click here” to link, instead use a context appropriate sentence as your link.
• use Tags for your posts. if you are not on Wordpress 2.3 yet, upgrade as tags are now included.
• get the Google Sitemap plugin for Wordpress

SEO can seem like such a blackbox to anyone starting out.  Here is an informal list of what I feel are some good and bad practices.

Go out and hit the various SEO forums to find out the “why” behind these statements.

Don’t:

• overuse keywords in meta tags.
• overuse keywords in your page.
• hide text on your page.
• use someone else’s content.
• have the title of your page be ‘Homepage’ or ‘Index’

Do:

• update your content regularly.  Content is King!
• learn about CSS and why you would use it to build your site.
• have a site map.
• be sure to use names on your images.
• read more discussion boards on SEO and marketing.