Wordpress is already SEO optimized but there are few settings needed to be done before launching your first post. If your useful post cannot be discovered by search engines, you are actually losing lots of potential readers.

Permalinks Migration

Wordpress Permalinks are permanent links of your posts. By default wordpress permalinks are in the following format
http://www.yourdomainname.com/?p=123

This is not a search engine friendly permalink. First thing after installing wordpress, you should consider changing your permalink structure. If you use permalinks which has keywords in it and are relevant to your post, chances of ranking in search engines are high.

The ideal permalinks are
/%category%/%postname%/
/%postname%.html

You can use either of them, but if you use more than one categories for a single post, I would suggest you to go for later one. You can change your permalink structure, under your wordpress admin dashboard > Settings > Permalinks

But what if you are changing your permalinks after publishing many posts? Use the Permalinks migration-plugin, and it will help your old permalinks to redirect to new ones instantly.  The redirection will be 301  permanent  redirects, so you do not loose any Google link juice.

 SEO Friendly Images

Optimize your images for Search Engines. Many bloggers avoid the importance of traffic from image search engines, like Google image search and Yahoo image search. By adding an alt tag to your images you can make it search engine friendly.

The basic rule is if you upload any image by the name 12387.jpeg with the same alt tag, it doesn’t make any sense to search engines. But if you upload an image with the title iphone-screenshot.jpg and using the same alt tag, you can rank high in the image search engine results as well.

Though manually adding alt tag is not easy for every image you upload, this can be easily accomplished by using wordpress SEO-friendly image plugin.

It automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Download SEO Friendly Images Plugin .

ALL in one SEO plugin

Recently I attended Wordcamp and got the opportunity to meet Matt Mullenweg.  In the discussion round, one of the topics was  integration of “ALL in one SEO plugin” with wordpress. Matt answered they would like it to be users choice rather then implementing it by default. The point here is “All in one SEO plugin” is one of the basic essential SEO plugin for any wordpress blogger.

All in one SEO plugin helps you to stuff appropriate keywords and optimizes your blog for the keywords you are targeting.  You can read more about the plugin or download All-in-one SEO plugin .

Broken Link Checker

Broken links become dead ends for search engine bots. Suppose you have written a post which is pointing to a website www.domain.com, and after some time website goes down; you will never realize it and such posts become dead ends  for your blog.

Broken link checker wordpress plugin comes very handy in such situations. It will show the broken link on your dashboard which you can unlink from there. Download Broken link checker for WordPress .

NoFollow Plugin

Nofollow plugin helps you to add a nofollow attribute to your external links. You can simply select to which external links you want to share your link juice. It’s always a good advice to add a nofollow attribute to bad neighborhoods, like warez websites or adult/p0rn websites. Download Nofollow WordPress Plugin .

These search engine optimization tips will help you to get more visitors from search engines, but in the end it’s “Quality of the post” which matters the most. Don’t forget to share your search engine optimization technique.

So your eyes rare here then i would ask that Are you conscious about your health?Then why don’t you bother about your web site health? Most of the users experiences the usability/convertibility/easiness of sites before addicted/committed to using it.They feel the site even before any purchase.So this is quite obvious that users drop the sites if they feel that loading of web site kills too much of their times and hence you are done with your loss.

Google engineer Aaron Hopkins studied on response time of sites (Optimizing Page Load Time) and experiments through different  tests of reducing latency for multiple HTTP requests.He founds that turning on keep-alive and spreading the requests over four domains (for more than 12 objects per page) can significantly reduce latency (by 1/4).Web sites load time is quite important as load times between 7 and 15 seconds had high bailout rates and caused significant frustration among users as a result no-one going to sleep with your lazy web site.We obliviously know that any wait beyond that is highly likely to cause the user to abandon the site.(try yourself on some crappy and deep loaded site).On most of the B2B and social networking sites sometimes building the page also requires a connections with the back-end mainframes or database servers this also leads to slowing down the process even beyond our expectations.

What Jakob Neilson says in his book name Designing Web Usability
“…fast response times are the most important design criterion for web pages.”
slow response times often translate directly into a reduced level of trust and they always cause a loss of traffic as users take their business.

Now your are reading this then their must be a question in your mind that How to speed up and optimize my site ? So here are some top 10 way to do so

1.  Minimizing HTTP requests is main solution for web site optimization – Minimizing HTTP requests reveals the total amount of HTML files on this page is 1 which most browsers can call out while loading the page.So by optimization this the value of website increased in the eye of users.

2. The top of the page should be low weight and meaningful -Top of pages loads first and after loading rest of the objects starts loading so it should be always low weighted.You may use some colors and more text, less image to do it efficiently.

3. The total size of your images should be small (near about 30kb) – While considering your images you may easily replace it efficiently with the use of CSS.

4. Optimize your external CSS files – Use of CSS as a replacement of image are fine but even large number of CSS can cause delay in the loading time. Ideally you should have one ( on your pages and if your site traffic is very high then try to embed it with in the page.

5. Reducing your CSS file size – Even CSS beautify your site but heavy doze of every thing is quite toxic.Better use CSS file in range of 1-3Kb and in order to optimize it don’t hesitate in eliminating  the unwanted feature from it.

6. Optimize your external script files – Use of large no of script files or script library like javascripts,mootools ( other javascript framework) can affect your site script.You may try to refine it and ideally you should you as small as possible.

7. Optimizing your scripts for size – If you are using any scripts for your web page that it should as less as possible.Script size of about 7kb are fine but heavy loaded script often cause poor loading time event in broadband.

8. External multimedia files like video , audio should be obviously low

9. The total number of objects on the page – web objects cover all the images , CSS , scripts , multimedia files and all the components.So these object should be as small as possible for better loading of complete page.

10.Last but not least way of boosting your website speed is this article itself.Any way if you are not satisfied with my last way then you should go for compressing your textual content (like XHTML, JavaScript, etc.) with mod_gzip or similar products. Mod gzip is actually a content acceleration module for web server like apache (where your sites runs)

1.People like to win free things, whether it the things they win are essential or not. Everyone simply loves a freebie. To advertise your site and increase your visitors, you might want to consider giving a free e-book to anyone who will join the site’s mailing list.
2.Give away something more valuable like free samples of your products. In exchange you may ask your customers to give a testimonial. Testimonials add to the effectiveness of your marketing.
3.Gain people’s trust by creating an eBook you made yourself. This will put you in the “Expert” category and people will look to you for questions. They will trust you and your product.
4.Have a link where customers can get the website in the form of an eBook. This makes you more accessible to them. Or if you are into direct mail, include a DVD or a CD of your site in the package. This ca be given away by the recipient of the package and can increase your sales.
5.Offer something for free for each purchase the customer makes. This always translated to value for money.
6.Create a referral system. Give a freebie to someone who can refer a certain number of e-mail addresses of people they can get to visit your site. This will help create a mailing list for you.
7.Create an eBook directory. Place all the websites you have in that directory. Give another freebie to someone who places an ad in their own website that links to that directory you have created.
8.Make the eBook easily accessible and transferable. This can help your loyal customers distribute it quicker and easier, too.
9.Conduct a market research based on the contact information visitors give in your website. This will help you identify the markets you are not so strong on, and you can focus on them more.
10.Increase the number of people visiting your site for advertisement purposes by offering a place in your website directory. This can be used as advertisement space and you can even charge the people who will use it.
11.Take care of your customers and give them monthly eBooks or newsletters. This will let them feel pampered and remembered. You can place new products by the end of the newsletter to keep customer coming back for more.
12.Increase traffic by submitting your eBooks to websites that have shareware. This will allow people to download it even without visiting your site just yet. After reading the eBook about your products, they will be enticed to visit your site.
13.Sell reprints to those who want to sell the eBook you made.
14.Hold a contest for the websites that best advertise your content and give them free space in your website directory.
15.Tell people about your site and your eBook, and ask them for referrals, too.
16.Cross promote your eBook with other products and services. Some people may not be satisfied with just a freebie, so show those people exactly what you have in your company.
17.Give incentives to customers who are subscribed to your newsletters. These are people who spread the word around and get people to visit your site
18.Give away a freebie to those who will become your affiliate. This will increase the number of people who will advertise the website.
19.Give incentives to people who will respond to your follow up marketing.
20.Make sure that you keep people interested. Offer them new freebies as time goes.

Note:Apart from these ways you may look into how to make a Killer Blogs and you also need to analyze the trends,link backs,search pages alexa ranks with the help of website and traffic analysis tools.Research and analysis is important because it bring home the bacon with the coming approximation.Moreover you may also use openinviter for spreading your brand into huge no of masses (use this plugin if your using wordpress blogs).

You can check out many other popular services like Alexa, Compete and Quantcast which do a similar analytics profile of websites using various parameters like US traffic, toolbars stats etc.. But Google could be in a more advantageous position to give more accurate statistics.

The main advantage Google has is that most web browsers use Google toolbars, most webmasters use Google Analytics and combine that with Google search and click statistics, site search statistics and Google Trends data – it seems Google should have a better idea than any other analytical service when comparing your sites traffic profile.

So check you own website profile and what do you see. Note that The daily unique visitors count is hidden, but if you know your traffic and compare your site with other sites, you can get a good idea, like their traffic is double your traffic, 10 times your traffic or 1/10 of it. Explore the audiences of specific websites with Trends for Websites now.