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Top editors discussed columns by The Post’s media critic that criticize a reporter at Politico.

WordPress is one of the most widely used blogging platforms for a reason. The WordPress Content Management System is an excellent tool to aid you in building a top quality website. Do you want more traffic than any other site? Then you want WordPress! This can help you herd a plethora of traffic to your site with its kicking features. The only thing is you’ve got to be able to really maximize this system. In order to do that, you have kick up your WordPress blog to the next level. This will make the search engines work for you. To do this you will need to recognize the importance of using WordPress settings to the greatest advantage. By simply utilizing this one element to its full potential you can learn to optimize your search engine results.

We all know that organic traffic is the key to any successful online business. When you get traffic from a search engine such as Google, they are probably already interested in your product or something similar. This article will be taking a look at ways to best utilize the features of SEO for your WordPress blog platform.

Critical to be set up exactly correct with specific keywords, your post title is the most essential function in your SEO interaction with your WordPress blog. As well as using them in your title, you need to make sure the keywords are included in the content of your post. To avoid confounding the search engine when it is contemplating the rankings for your pages, you should strive for singular titles that are not used in repetition on your website. Making a list of keywords to use within the titles of your posts is a key step to keeping your content on track and search engine friendly. In order to draw the visitor’s attention your title needs not only relevant keywords but catchy phrasing. The first item that a visitor will observe preceding arriving on your website will be your title, which the search engine placements feature. Keep your titles easy to read and not too long. You can’t be vague with your titles, be very clear so that you achieve your objective easily.

You want to get indexed by Google? The best way to guarantee that is to have a sitemap. Worried it will take too long? Utilize a plug in to develop a Google Sitemap. That will definitely expedite the process significantly. The purpose of this is to help Google find all your pages. In addition to this, whenever you post something new, make sure that you ping it to various websites. If the post gets linked back by other bloggers/webmasters you will get some targeted backlinks and it will give you some targeted exposure. You need to ping every time you post.

Many people using WordPress ignore the most important SEO factor – changing the blog’s permalink structure. How come? If you leave the permalinks as normal they only contain numbers. Ensuring that your post title appears in your URL is an easy way to circumvent this. By tailoring the permalinks via the options in your WordPress blog, you are able to accomplish this.

Hale Global, a little known turnaround firm, thinks it can run Patch better than AOL could. And it will have the authority to push AOL completely out of the picture under a new partnership agreement announced today.

In a release announcing a joint venture on Patch between the two companies, it was clear which one would be calling the shots: “Under the terms of the agreement,” the release said, “AOL will contribute Patch into a new limited liability company, which will be operated and majority owned by Hale Global.”

A source with knowledge of the agreement told Ad Age that AOL could feasibly end up with no role at all. Hale, the source said, will be completely in the driver seat from an operational standpoint. That means the company will have to decide whether to retain Patch’s editorial team and what to do with its ad sales team.

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Dylan Williams, the partner and chief strategic officer at Mother, has resigned from the agency to become the global chief strategy and innovation officer at Publicis Worldwide.