For those of you who would like to preserve your time for the writing of posts rather than the technicalities of blogging, I am providing a few tips on how to keep on the friendly side of search engines. These simple seo tweaks should be applied to your wordpress blog if not done so already.

Install the All in One Seo Plugin

All-in-One-Seo is a free plugin for wordpress that simplifies the process of on-page seo. I use this plugin with all of my blogs and it serves as the core to my on-page seo. This sexy plugin takes out all the hard work of optimizing title and description tags and can even prevent duplicate content from being indexed by search engines. Sweet!

• Have the main keyword you would like your blog to target at the beginning of your title.
  For example, “Making Money Online with 007″ rather than “007s Blog About Making Money Online”
• Prevent Indexing of duplicate content.
  Duplicate content that may exist on your blog as a result of the category, and archive pages is intended for that sake of your readers(To help them locate posts more effectively). This duplicate content can result in the search engines penalizing your blog. Using the noindex feature from All-in-One-Seo you can prevent the search engines indexing duplicates.
• Permalink Format.
  Log into wp-admin, under the settings panel, click permalinks. The default settings are numerical permalinks. Numbers mean nothing to search engines. Words do. You can experiment with different permalink formats, however I recommend that you select the “Month and Name” option.
• Use of keywords in description tag.
  Getting the right balance is important here, while too many keywords may have an opposing effect it is still important to have 1 or 2 of keywords present in the description tag so as to not miss out on any of that juicy targeted traffic. I would not recommend surpassing 3 keywords unless absolutely necessary.

Now you have on-page SEO out of the way, you can focus on more important things, like creating content or building links!