Membership sites and SEO – what you don’t know may kill you[r organic rankings]

There is plenty of information about websites and SEO but very little of value written about Membership Site SEO issues specifically. Particularly about problems that most membership sites have with their Search Engine Optimization.

Keyphrase
Number of results
on Google

web site SEO
371,000,000

membership site SEO
867,000

web site SEO = 371,000,000 results on Google
membership site SEO = 867,000 results on Google

So besides the fact that there is not enough information on the subject – many facts are just not disclosed by members+hip software creators. Because if people would knew what they are getting – these vendors and developers would [...]

7 Tips to Improve Search Engine Ranking of your Membership Site

Higher search engine ranking means more traffic, more visitors and more sales. It does not take lots of effort although takes a bit of skills and knowledge to do things right.
Here are 7 tips I personally utilize for each and every portal I build. Some of these are specific to WordPress, some apply to any website. Consider it a must-have checklist.
Use permalinks setting wisely. Default setting for wordpress permalinks is not most search engine friendly. To fix it – login to WordPress dashboard, Settings->Permalinks->select (x) Custom structure and set permalinks like this: /%category%/%postname%/ This will make URL’s [...]