Main Street Marketing Machines – How To Rank WordPress Blogs Using Search Engine Optimization

Video 1 – Introduction

This is the first in a series of videos I did to help one of my Main Street Marketing Machines mastermind members who was having a bit of trouble getting one of her client’s sites ranked.

I do this kind of thing to help anyone who purchases main street marketing machines or main street marketing machines 2 through my affiliate link, along with lots of other Main Street Marketing Machines 2 bonuses.

After reviewing the site, I identified the problem – there was not enough content and the internal and external linking, as well as category and tag structures all needed tweaking to rank in a competitive market.

This is a series of 12 videos, reviewing and making the necessary adjustments to get a local (or even global) wordpress site to rank for a business.

Video 2: Adding Content

In this video we review places that you can go and strategies you can use to find content for your site, and for local sites in particular, by using Google to ask questions that searchers may be asking and by looking for private label rights (PLR) content, which we use on this site.

 

Video 3: Plugin Installation

One of the best things you can do to speed up the process of getting your WordPress sites ranked high in Google is to use a special cocktail of plugins that are readily available to add functionality to the already search engine friendly WordPress blog engine

In this video we identify those plugins, install them and I share one of my favorite plugins that helps automate this entire process. Best of all, you can get the lite version of this plugin for free, and it is amazing.

 

Video 4: Blog Details & Meta

Before you spend time configuring your plugins, you need to get the basic details of your blog right. That means choosing the right title for your blog, your page, your slogan, description and keywords.

In this video, I walk you through each step of setting up your page title, slogan, keywords, description and other important aspects of your blog so that you have the best chance of ranking the fastest in the search engine

Video 5: Configuring Your Plugins

Now that you have your suite of plugins installed on your blog, it’s time to configure them in the best way to maximize search engine exposure to draw the search engines in and get them to index your pages and rank them as high as possible as quickly as possible.

This video walks you through the process of configuring your plugins for maximum effectiveness.

 

Video 6: Adding Your Post

Now that you have all the extra tools and the basics down and configured for maximizing your post rankings, it’s time to add some posts to your site.

So, in this video, I create a post and add it to the blog, and you get to see how it’s done the right way, which, as usual, will give it the best chance of being indexed the fastest, bringing your site up to the top of Google.

 

Video 7: Formatting Your Post

Now that you have all the extra tools and the basics down and configured for maximizing your post rankings, it’s time to add some posts to your site.

So, in this video, I create a post and add it to the blog, and you get to see how it’s done the right way, which, as usual, will give it the best chance of being indexed the fastest, bringing your site up to the top of Google.

 

Video 8: Adding & Linking Post Images

It’s time sexy up your post now by adding some life to it. We’ll do this by adding an image to your post, and I’ll show you in the video below how to upload a photo, tag it in just the right way to get the attention of Google Image search and make your posts look amazing, all in just a few minutes.

 

Video 9: Internal & External Post Linking

Okay, so your post is live and it’s pretty and everything is looking good. Now, we need to add some links to drive authority up the structure of your blog to its main domain name. Each post will do this with the correct internal linking strategy, and I’ll show you how to do it here.

Also, Google wants us to play nice with the other people in our niche, so they will give us brownie points if we link out to relevant, high authority content from our blog. We’ll review just exactly how to do that in the video below, including how to find the right sites to link to and just exactly how to create those links.

 

Video 10: Post Categories

Categories in Word Press are signposts to content types. By putting our posts in relevant categories, we can let Google and the other search engines know that our content is about some specific topic in some specific niche.

Categories make that possible, so I talk about the way to find out what your categories should be and also how to create them and use them for the best impact on search rankings.

 

Video 11: Post Tagging

Once you have your categories selected and added, the next step is to add the proper tags to your post. Categories are larger content descriptors and tags are more narrow.

Tags let you drill down to specific mentions in your post, so that people can find what they are looking for. In this video, we’ll explore how to automate your tagging and also seed your tags with your keyword phrases to give the search engines exactly what they’re looking for.

 

Main Street Marketing Machines 2 – SEO Your Local Listings Video 12: Fiverr Link Building Strategy

With all your posts researched, added, linked internally and externally, then categorized and tagged properly, the only thing you may still want to do is to drive some external links to them. You can do this through the video blast features of Traffic Geyser in Main Street Marketing Machines and Social Media Marketing Machines, or use another service like TubeMogul or HeySpread, but sometimes that still is not enough, and you need a little extra oomph to break onto page 1 of Google.

When you do, try going to Fiverr.com and buying links that will really benefit you. I give you two good strategies for this in the video below…