How to create SEO friendly blog in wordpress.

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Sing Up with wordpress.com

Click here to begin

Step 1.1 Sign Up with wordpress & enter blog details

Enter your Email address , username & password of your choice

Enter the blog address (URL)

SEO Tip : Add some keywords in the blog URL

Step 1.2 Create blog

Once you have entered all the details click on Create Blog

Step 1.3 Activate your blog

When you will click on Create Blog, you will get activation email by wordpress. You need to click on Activate Blog and a new window will open

The Blog is created!

Click here to reach the blog dashboard

Lets visit the blog Dashboard

This is the dashboard

These are some of the options under the Posts You can click on Add New option to add new post.

Step 2.1 Create your blog post by adding content, images and videos

Enter the blog title here

This is the formatting menu bar

Insert the content for your blog post here

SEO Tip : Include enough keywords in the title & main content of blog post. Optimize images & videos.

Understanding the formatting menu bar for the blog post

Insert image video, image , poll etc

Format the content using these tool

Break the link given Give the link to other URL

Step 2.2 Add link (anchor text)

2. Click on this link button

1. Select the text from where you want to give link to other website or web page

SEO Tip : Link to the relevant sites from the text containing the keyword.

Step 2.3 Add link (anchor text)

Enter the URL of the web page or the website where you want to link and also enter the title for it.

Once you are done click on Add Link

SEO Tip : You may include a keyword in the title of your anchor text.

Step 2.4 Publish your post

3. Once you have entered the category & tags click on Publish

2. Enter he category in which your post belongs

1. Enter the tags relevant to your post

SEO Tip : Add proper categories and the tags containing the keywords.

So here is the blog after Publishing

Step 3.1 - Add Widgets in your blog

Go to dashboard, click on Appearance under which there will be the option for widgets Click on it

SEO Tip : It is very important to include widgets in your blog.

Step 3.2 Add widgets

These are some of the widgets provided by the wordpress

To include theses widgets in your blog, drag & drop them in the side bar and fill the required details for that particular widget

All the widgets in this side bar section will be included in the blog

Step 4.1 Add blogroll widget in your blog

Blogroll is widget where you can give the URLs of your favorite blogs

Click on links in the dashboard and select Add New

Step 4.2 Add blogroll widget in your blog

Enter the name of the link that will be included in the blogroll

Enter the URL of the blog to which you want to get linked to

We can also add the description about the blog we are linking to

Step 4.3 Add blogroll widget in your blog

3. Select the link category. So that links stored in that category will be displayed & save widget

1. Select the widgets in the Appearance

2. Add Links widget

After adding widgets , the blog will look like this