First and foremost you should always be running the most up to date version of WordPress. Wordpress 2.1 Ella, named after jazz great Ella Fitzgerald is the most current version out right now.

Below is a list of plug-ins that are sure to direct visitors to your WordPress Ghost Town. Don’t believe me? Install a few and watch the tumble weeds disappear.

Add Meta Tags
This plugin adds XHTML META tags to your WordPress blog. Its design is based on the assumption that the WordPress categories are used as tags, so it requires no user configuration in order to work.

Ultimate Tag Warrior 3
Professional Blogger Stephen Spencer turned me onto this one. You can learn a lot about optimizing your blog from this guy.

Ultimate Tag Warrior is a multi-headed hydra of a plugin. It allows you to add tags either through the Write Post page in wordpress in a tag box, on posts using an AJAXy box, and in posts using special syntax from external editors (or internally, if you’d like). From the write post page, you can also get suggestions for tags using the Yahoo! keyword suggestion service.Once you’ve got your tags entered; you enter a realm of interesting ways of doing things with your tags.

Search Pages
Search Pages is a WordPress 1.5 plugin that makes search queries look at pages and posts both instead of only posts.

Search Reloaded
The search reloaded plugin for WordPress is a modest attempt to improve the default search algorithm used in WordPress by leveraging MySQL’s full text search algorithms.

SEO Title Tag
This one is a MUST HAVE! Again Thank you Stephen Spencer!

Title tags are arguably the most important of the on-page factors for search engine optimization (”SEO”). This WordPress plugin “SEO Title Tag”, written by Stephan Spencer of SEO specialist web agency Netconcepts, addresses several limitations in creating search engine optimized title tags for blog posts and for Pages in the WordPress blogging platform. It is completely free and has been released as “open source” under the GPL license. So enjoy!

Sociable
Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts, increasing your potential audience.

Terong Related Links
This WP plugin allows you to create related entries to your post.

Not A Plugin, But Worth It’s Weight In SEO Gold

Squidoo
Squidoo is a sort of blogging platform I suppose with massive search engine appeal. I started building Squidoo’s in October 2006 and have seen huge influx in my traffic. To this day several of my lenses account for a rather large portion of my traffic.

Lenses, as they are called; are crawled by the major search engines and in many instances have out ranked some of the sites I run in terms of popularity. It takes no time to set up a lens and it’s free. I would personally suggest getting one going. There are a ton of easy to use modules and add-ins as well an rss module for syndicating other websites on your lens.

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