Wordpress and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
WordPress is a blogging tool or platform that’s easy to use and SEO friendly out of the box. It is easy to install and most of the web hosts will install if for you upon request. The Latest version of WordPress, version 2.7 allows you to change the urls from default to a more SEO friendly URL under permalink Settings.
Plugins also make WordPress Search Engine or SEO friendly. The most usefully SEO plugins for wordpress are as follows
All In One SEO: This plugin helps you add custom page titles, keyword, meta tags, and description to any page or post easily. It also automatically optimizes your titles for search engines.
Head Space: Head space is like All In One SEO on steroids, you can configure meta data for pages, 404 pages, seach pages and posts. It also provieds an easy way to add Google Analytics, Google Webmaster, Google section targeting, Feedburner Stats Pro, Yahoo site explorer and much more.
Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin proves an easy and efficient way to create a site map, it can also create and edit robot.txt. This plugin also notifies google, msn and ask.com aobut changes in your site map automatically.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: This will add related articles to you posts and it is highly customizable.
AskApache Google 404: This plugin allows you to edit you 404 page to be more SEO friendly. For this plugin to work you need a google API Key
