A major part of blogging involves managing the readers’ comments and responding to them in a timely fashion. WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier sits on your system’s tray and notifies you whenever a new comment is posted. Depending on how you set it up (it checks new comments at set intervals), you can moderate and respond to comments much quicker - something your readers will appreciate.
Many of the questions I received about WordPress SEO relate to keywords, so let’s dive into that topic. We’ll start at the beginning (and when we get to the end, we’ll stop, har har).
Keywords are the words people type into the search box at a search engine.
Yes, that’s it. That’s all they are. They’re small things, really. But oh, the power they hold! So much depends on them. Keywords form the basis of search results. Keywords form the basis for much of the web’s advertising. Keywords trigger much of the commerce online. Keywords are their own currency on the web, and they are worth actual dollars.
A keyword sounds like it should just be one word, but they’re often more than one word. Here are some examples of keywords:
As you can see, only one of these is a single word, and some of them are more than several words. The more words there are in a keyword, the fewer but more specific are the results that will be returned in a search. These are also keywords people would expect to search on and end up at Remarkablogger.
I avoided keywords from other industries/fields because I don’t want to appear in search for unrelated words. I still to this day get searches for the word d-o-l-l-m-a-k-e-r because of a single post I wrote years ago.
When considering WordPress SEO, you have to consider the keywords you want your blog to be found for (we say we’re targeting keywords). When writing a post for your blog, you have to consider what keywords you’re targeting for that particular post.
You may think you know the right keywords to target, but unless you’ve done some research, it’s likely you don’t really know. Incorrect assumptions about keywords can damage your bottom line considerably! How? The wrong keywords prevent your blog from being found by people.
You have to flip your perspective. You have to get inside the searcher’s head–or at least get out of your own head. One of the best ways to this that doesn’t involve “getting technical” is to empathize with a person who has a problem they’re trying to solve: how would they frame their question? What solution are they looking for? What words would they likely use? Then, write a post around those words.
There are a few free and easy ways to determine what your major keywords should be. Here are some of them:
You want to be targeting between 3 and 5 major keywords for your blog. By major, I mean that a healthy number of searches occur for these words every day (it’s relative, but your research will reveal general numbers). For example, blog marketing is a major keyword for me, butUsing Twitter to grow blog traffic definitely is not. I may still be interested in it as a “longtail” keyword, but it’s not a major keyword.
Let’s apply this now to WordPress SEO: I strongly suggest you make these major keywords your blog categories, and that you set up your permalinks and robots/nofollow/noindex settings so that your blog permalinks always contain major keywords you want to rank for.
This is much more easily done for a brand-new blog than for an existing blog. Changing all the links on your blog without redirecting the old links to the new links will render useless any existing links to your blog from other sites (backlinks). However, it is possible to do this with the right WordPress plugins.
Google is the undisputed king of search. They do it well. What many bloggers may not be aware of is that you can use Google as your site’s main search engine. You don’t have to use your blog engine’s built in search.
There are two really nice benefits to using Google for your site search engine:
So the question is: how do you do it? Well, I’ll show you. 
<?php
unset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);
//Include current WordPress Theme Header etc.
require(’./wp-config.php’);
function maketitle() {
return ” | Search Results”;
}
//Check if we’re wrapping the WP Theme
//Get Theme settings.
$themes = get_themes();
$current_theme = get_current_theme();
$current_template_dir = $themes[$current_theme]['Template Dir'];
$current_stylesheet_dir = $themes[$current_theme]['Stylesheet Dir'];
//Initialize the WP class to be able to get the header
wp();
//Set status to 200 to override the 404 set by WordPress
status_header(200);
//Include the WP Header
add_filter(”wp_title”,’maketitle’);
get_header();
?>
[ PASTE YOUR SEARCH RESULTS CODE FROM GOOGLE HERE ]
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php
get_footer();
?>
This file will use your blog’s active theme, however you may need to do some modifications to suit your blog. You might also need to go back and define the width of the search results to fit your blog.
When you’re done, you will have a Google powered search engine within your blog
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