Search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are 2 very different animals, so I thought it would be beneficial to share these plugins and methods to get your blog and it’s articles  listed in as little as a few hours.

WordPress Plugins For Search Engine Optimization

• MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer – This plugin is overlooked by way too many bloggers. Whenever you post a blog entry, it pings multiple services to inform them your blog was updated. This also happens when you edit a post in any fashion. If you’re a bad typist like me, you leave a few typos. If you aren’t using this plugin, you’re risking being banned from these websites, making the rest of this article irrelevant.
• Platinum SEO Pack – The best SEO plug-in I have found for WordPress, bar none. It has the important and obvious features like the ability to customize the meta tags, keywords, page title and descriptions. But it also includes often overlooked features like automatic 301 redirects for re-named articles, categories, tags,etc. You can rename and reorganize at will without any concerns with dead links in search engines, or losing page-rank.
• Big Social Media Buttons – This is not qualified as a plug-in as it requires editing of your theme files, and there may be better versions out there I haven’t seen, but I like my social buttons chunky! This code will enable the same social buttons you see at the bottom of this post.

• Google XML Sitemaps – This plug-in is pretty self explanatory. It generates a beautiful XML site-map and a matching compressed version (really good compression, too). The benefit with this one in particular is it’s ability to update automatically whenever your site is updated. What a pain in the ass it would be without this plugin!
• Excerpt Editor – This plug-in makes it very easy to edit your excerpts for your theme. If you weren’t aware, leaving your excerpt blank results in duplicate content, lowering the perceived value of your article with search engines, especially google. With this plug-in you can breeze through your past
• Advanced Excerpt – Simply enables HTML content in your excerpts. Very handy in certain blog environments and themes. A perfect compliment for the Excerpt Editor, if you prefer to sculpt your html yourself. If not, you can use an html editor in-post, but
• Google Analyticator – Allows you to add advanced google analytics tracking without any theme page edits. This is very important, because if you don’t know what pages are getting hit and how much, you’re stabbing in the dark, and it will be mostly luck getting you get any real results.

All these plugins are simply for optimizing your website via plug-ins. For best result, use the following ingredients by Big Robby…

• Create unique content. Focus on shorter, meaty articles instead of breaking your back trying to get a few big articles a week. Read a lot of tweets, diggs and stumbled websites and you’ll never be out of ideas for content.
• Submit your website to Google, Technorati and other services.
• Get a profile on social media websites to distribute your content

Most Important, comment on others articles for reputation and links,  and share other’s articles on public sites like Stumble, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter! It’s a community, and if you help others, they will help you!

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