How to create SEO friendly blog in wordpress.com

Sing Up with wordpress.com

Click here to begin

Enter your Email address , username & password of your choice

Enter the blog address (URL)

SEO Tip : Add some keywords in the blog URL

Step 1.1 – Sign Up with wordpress & enter blog details

Once you have entered all the details click on “Create Blog”

Step 1.2 – Create 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

Step 1.3 – Activate your blog

The Blog is created…!

Click here to reach 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.

Lets visit the blog “Dashboard”

Lets Create The First Post

Enter the blog title here

Insert the content for your blog post here

This is the formatting menu bar

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

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

Insert image video, image , poll etc

Format the content using these tool

Give the link to other URL

Break the link given

Understanding the formatting menu bar for the blog post

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

2. Click on this link button

Step 2.2 – Add link (anchor text)

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

2. Enter he category in which your post belongs

1. Enter the tags relevant to your post

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

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.

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 3.2 – Add widgets

Step 4.1 – Add blogroll widget in your blog

Click on links in the dashboard and select “Add New”

Blogroll is widget where you can give the URL’s of your favorite blogs

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 4.2 – Add blogroll widget in your blog

1. Select the widgets in the “Appearance”

2. Add “Links” widget

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

Step 4.3 – Add blogroll widget in your blog

After adding widgets , the blog will look like this

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