This is mostly for those who have installed WordPress on their self hosted domain. Though there is lot of tweaking involved depending upon your requirement but you must follow the tips mentioned below just after installing WordPress, world’s best free publishing platform on your server.
1. Create a custom URL for your permalinks and archives
By default WordPress uses web URLs with a question mark and a parameter to your post id like this http://www.whibb.com/?p=221 which is the permalink for the current post. This is extremely bad for SEO on your website.
Go to Dashboard Settings –> Permalinks and select the Custom Structure giving the %postname% in the text box. This will make the same permalink appear as http://www.whibb.com/five-things-after-installing-wordpress which is optimized for SEO as it does make some sense.
2. Prevent anybody from browsing your WordPress folders
Usually by default, the directory listing is enabled on your domain for every folder. This is quite risky as anybody can exploit any vulnerabilities that may creep in future.
To prevent this add the following line to .htaccess file in your root WordPress folder.
Options All -Indexes
3. Organize your Uploads directory
You may would like to see this post. This will make your WordPress blog more flexible for future.
4. Install All in one SEO pack Plugin
This is a must! It will automatically generate META tags and title for every post and optimizes your blog for Search Engine rankings. You can download the plugin now from here.
5. Create a Feedburner account for your website and install Feed Smith Plugin.
There are several reasons why you should outsource the feed business to Feedburner. For better management, publicity and tracking and what not, Feedburner is the best solution for RSS feeds on your site.
Now once you create an account on it you should redirect all the links pointing to the traditional feed on your WordPress blog to Feedburner. For this download Feed Smith plugin which was recently acquired by Feedburner itself.
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Personally I like to use as permalinks /%category%/%postname%/ and use the category base killer to remove /category/ from the urls.