Comments on: About to Publish A Post? STOP! Read This

By: DJ Perez

DJ Perez — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:05:10 +0000

This is one of the best articles I have read in long time relating to SEO for Blogs.

Thanks for sharing it.

By: Jeff @ Cutting Edge Offers

Jeff @ Cutting Edge Offers — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:00:33 +0000

Love the post. I just posted a link to this on our Facebook page.

By: Cresilda @ Virtual Assistant, Inc.

Cresilda @ Virtual Assistant, Inc. — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:03:15 +0000

This post is all in one. Lisa, you did a great job in enumerating it all for us. Your post is the best example of a well-optimized blog. Thanks for sharing.

By: Eric Fischgrund

Eric Fischgrund — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:28:48 +0000

You can change the slugs. Check it out: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/rename-category-slug-in-url

Thanks for a good read as always.

By: Keri

Keri — Wed, 25 May 2011 00:10:32 +0000

Hey Dino, the SEO plugin on my blog takes care of interlinking for me. Thought you might be interested- it’s called SEO Ultimate at http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/ It has a feature called “Deeplink Juggernaut” where you can name keywords to automatically link to certain posts. Like, if you wrote a post called “7 Ways to Catch a Unicorn”, you could automatically link the words “catch a unicorn” to that post, wherever they appear. I’m not an affiliate or anything, I just really like the feature =)

By: Jamie Fairbairn

Jamie Fairbairn — Tue, 24 May 2011 11:04:20 +0000

Very good post Lisa – when I started my blog I didn’t interlink between posts but have been doing it for a while now. I found it can help keep people on my site for longer, especially if I link to another post I’ve written on the same topic at the end.

Keri makes a very good point about the alt tags too and it’s something I’ve tried to become more aware of only recently by describing the images and trying only to use keywords where they’re appropriate.

By: Dino Dogan

Dino Dogan — Mon, 23 May 2011 06:23:35 +0000

I hate interlinking old posts…for that matter I hate formating my posts….I do it, of course…but the writing process is so much more fun than all the extra nonsense we have to do…which is why I often publish video instead….so much easier :-)

Good round up tho…

By: Keri

Keri — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:54:31 +0000

Hey, great checklist! Thanks for writing it up. I found this post via a tweet & just subscribed to your RSS feed—looking forward to future posts!

I just wanted to point out that alt tags for images were created for accessibility purposes. Please don’t use them just for SEO purposes. They should be used to describe the image for your readers with disabilities. Yes, you can use keywords, but only if they’re relevant to describing the image.

Thanks again for the great checklist =)

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:07:05 +0000

Umm? Check!

By: Janet Aronica

Janet Aronica — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:43:05 +0000

This was such a helpful and well laid out post Lisa. Thank you for writing this!