SEO Tycoon

**greenandchic** · 11-07-2008, 08:31 PM

My website is http://www.greenandchic.com and the blog is http://www.greenandchic.com/blog (I am currently working on my Wordpress theme to get it to look like my site). I don’t have my site professionally optimized at this time, but I was wondering if my Wordpress blog would help with that. I am able to drive a fair amount of traffic (not very targeted though) to my blog and was wondering if thats enough for my site. Would I do well to have my site professionally optimized or is WP good enough?

**chrishirst** · 11-07-2008, 08:47 PM

If you can't optimise your site, why would you think having a "blog" would help?

That has to be optimised as well. There are no magic properties about having a CMS that makes publishing pages simple that will automagically optimise your pages.

**greenandchic** · 11-07-2008, 08:54 PM

I guess because I heard/read that Wordpress is great for SEO. I have the SEO plugin on WP and that has helped increase my traffic over the past few weeks to the blog. Since the blog is connected to the site, I would have that that was helpful since I have NO SEO skills for the site itself.

**vangogh** · 11-07-2008, 10:04 PM

WordPress is good for SEO in general, but Chris is right in that it's not automatically optimized. For example one seo friendly feature of WordPress is permalinks. Permalinks make it easy for you to have URLs that are more search engine friendly, but you still need to turn permalinks on and there are still decisions about how you want to set up the structure of the URL.

It looks like you've already turned the permalinks on too.

If you do little other than to use WordPress you probably are in better shape than if you had someone with no SEO knowledge build you a site. But know that WordPress isn't a substitute for a marketing strategy or an SEO strategy. Neither are one time things to set up and leave alone. It's all a process. WordPress will give you a good start on some aspects of SEO, but there's definitely more to optimizing a site.

Only you can decide if it's worth hiring someone or whether you want to take the time to optimize your site and blog. You could even ignore SEO completely and still do well.

Here are a few posts I have bookmarked about SEO for WordPress. They aren't the end all and be all of SEO for WordPress, but hopefully they can help some.

WordPress SEO
Make WordPress Search Engine Friendly - video
On Page SEO for WordPress

**greenandchic** · 11-07-2008, 11:41 PM

Thanks vangogh!

It looks like I will have to do some more reading on SEO (other than the standard tags which I have already done)

**vangogh** · 11-11-2008, 09:57 PM

Glad to help. Feel free to ask specific questions as you encounter them.