Are you trying to get more traffic to your WordPress blog? If not, you should be! It is not enough to post a great blog with interesting content. With the millions of different blogs out there, probably thousands cover the same topic as yours, so you have to optimize your blog for the search engines. By optimizing your blog, the search engines’ spiders can crawl through your blog and find out what it’s all about. If it is optimized the correct way, you will get ranked well, and that is a great thing as far as traffic is concerned. The following tips can help you optimize your site, which will bring traffic your way.

First, you need to make your blog’s design simple. Do not try to make it fancy and snazzy with all kinds of animated graphics. Those do look nice and they are fun, but the search engines’ spiders have a hard time crawling through that kind of stuff and determining what your blog is all about. Now, you can have some nice pictures and graphics, just don’t overdo it.

Next, make sure that at least one of your keywords is in your URL. This is helpful not only to get you ranked high with the search engines, it is good for your viewers. It helps them remember your site’s address so they can come back and visit.

Not only should you have at least one keyword in your URL, you also need to make it SEO friendly. You can do this by making it short and simple. Do not have a big, long address. You also need to make sure is no punctuation in your address.

You need to title each one of your pages. Not only do your pages need a title that is relevant, you need to use your keywords in each title. The more you can use, the better, just make sure they make sense and aren’t just placed there so you can use them. Each title should also be unique. Don’t name each page the same thing.

Make sure your blog has easy navigation. If it is easy for your audience to find their way around, it will be easy for the spiders to find their way around your site and index your different pages. If you aren’t sure if it is user friendly enough, have some friends test it out.

Join a group of people whose blogs are relevant to yours. By doing this you can share each others links. Spiders like to see back links to your site. You can even guest blog for each other. This is another way you can share your link in blogs.

Be patient. SEO efforts do not work overnight. You have to give it a few weeks at least and then you should start seeing some additional traffic.

Now you should be ready to do a little (or a lot) of optimizing on your WordPress blog. Use what you have learned in this article, and you can gain a bigger audience and see greater success with your blog.