WordPress website become more and more popular because WordPress is the most easier and convenient tool to use. But some common mistakes should not make since it will effect to be found by searching engine. If you want your WordPress Websites get quick and easier searching, get a high page rank quickly, you should not ignore those common WordPress Set up.
Let's go through those step by step once you install WordPress on your server.
1. Change Default Permalink Structure
The WordPress default permalink setting is not search engine friendly URLThe permalink structure with keywords can help your site gain traffic. So, it's better to change the default permalink. Here is what you need to do:
1) Go to the "Setings" ;
2) then click "Permalinks";
3) Select as the image below:
2. Install the basic and absolute essentials Plugins
- Akismet
- Google XML Sitemaps
- All in One SEO Pack
- Contact Form 7
3. Uploading your own favicon
The default favicon is WordPress favicon. Don't think it's doesn't matter because the icon associated with your website. The favicon will be displayed in the browser’s address bar, next to the page title in a tab, and beside the page name in a list of bookmarks.
Your own favicon will make your WordPress website looks more professional, if you want the result then you really need to have your own favicon. (Click here to learn how to make your own favicon and upload to your WordPress site.)
4. Using FTP Client
To use FTP Client upload, download or change file easier and quickly on your server. It's not difficult to learn. The File Manager of cPanel is convenient to use but cPanel has a slow interface and often crashes (or closes) unexpectedly.(Click here to download Free software FileZilla Client.)
5. Back up the website
Backing up your database files is always advised. Because there're any number of reasons, from a bad installation to incompatible plugins, can cause WordPress to crash. So, Always back up is a good habit for any websites owners.
Two way to back up:
1). Manually. Login your wordpress admin, click "Tools", click Export.
2). You can install wordpress plugin to do an automatic back up. Such as WP Complete Backup. If you like to use WP-DB-Backup this wordpress back up plugin, don't forget to install another plugin for your website files because WP-DB-Backup is only back up your data base of your website.
6. Using More than One Server
Why need more that one server? For example, your wordpress website has more than 30,000 visitors, when they visit your website, the servers nearest to them respond to the requests. This dramatically make the load-time of your blog significantly lower by decreasing the requests to the main web server and ensure a reliable delivery of your content.
Now, You might be thinking-what should I do? Two way: ( sure, you have to pay for it.)
1) WPWebhost
2) MaxCDN or Cloud-flare
7. Use your own Gravatar
Gravatar or Globally Recognized Avatar is an image that represents you across the entire Internet. Gravatar appears beside blog comments and discussion forums. It is an image that represents you across the entire internet.
Gravatar attracts attention and increase your credibility. If you have a WrodPress blog, it's better to sign up Gravatar.com so that you can assign an avatar, via your email address. It's free and it will has a big influence on your blog.
8. De-Clutter Your blog’s Sidebar
Readers like simplicity. Too many ads, widgets and too many links are information overload. Instead of annoying your visitors and contributing to site’s load time, reduce the clutter on your sidebar by adding only the most important elements to your sidebar and provide a better reading experience to your blog’s readers.
9. Using Blog Authoring Tool
If you love to blog, it's better to use Blog Authoring Tool such as Windows Live Writer. For Mac user, click here to choose your favorite tool. The handy application is designed to write blogs offline and make them pretty with a lots of formatting and editing options.
10. Using Web Analytics Program
Web Analytics Programs such as Google Analytics and Clicky are recommended. Ａ tracking program such as Google Analytics to monitor your website traffic and to track the keywords that most often lead users to your website.
11. integrating webmaster tools
Submitting XML sitemaps to Google webmaster tools helps search engine to crawl and index all the pages of your website. You'll get a full report about incoming and outgoing links, search engine terms, website performance and other useful stats.
11. Implement Google Authorship Markup
Google Authorship Markup is to increase credibility and maximize exposure. Once your blog is verified for Google Authorship Markup, a photo pointing to your Google profile will appear next to the snippet when your content appear on search results.