Building a Findable Blog - Making Your WordPress Blog More Findable

Define Update Service

To let the users find your site directly, your first modification to WordPress will be to extend the number of update services that are pinged when you publish new content.Examples of service are Technorati (http://technorati.com/) and Google Blog Search (http://blogsearch.google.com/)

Another update service option is to use FeedBurner (http://feedburner.com/) to publish your RSS feeds. FeedBurner is a service that transforms RSS feeds into new content formats and provides enhancements like quick subscribe buttoms, podcast support, and advertising that can generate revenue for your site. Also, Feedburner helps you publicize your new content with PingShot (http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/publishers/pingshot).

Remapping Your Permalink URLS

The default URL structure for WordPress permalinks looks like something like this: http:example.com/?p=23 It is not very search engine friendly.

Few options to change it.

One of the way is to Chang the query string to "Date and name based". It will look like this: http:example.com/2009/06/17/post-title/ It is more search engine friendly.

Other way is to create a custom URL structure by selecting the last option,labeled"Custom, specify below"

Using Categories To Archive by Topic

WordPress lets you display your posts in the typical categories. It's not only help you to organize the site, but also better suits users' search behaviours.

Summarizing Posts To Direct Traffic Better, Displaying Your Most Popular and Recent Posts

See the details from the post of June 13.

Encourage Social Exchange of Your Content

You can encourage your users to bookmark your site or digg it using WordPress plugin created by Peter Harkins called Sociable( http://push.cx/sociable). Sociable always add some links under each post to some of the most popular social networking sites on the web.

Tagging Your Posts

A tag is a keywords that serves as data used to describe blog posts or other content on a website. A tag cloud is simply a collection of all tag throughout a site.It helps the readers to overview the type of contents your blog contains.