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When it comes to blog optimization some people’s first line of defense is to add a plugin, but that may not necessarily be the best solution. There are ways to optimize your blog without adding a plugin, which could increase your code for each page you publish. The more code you have in your pages the less optimized your posts will be. So you can see the dilemma in adding plugins. Too many can be as bad, or worse, than not enough.

Here are some ways to increase your blog’s optimization without adding a plugin:

• Add links to your sidebar that use your important keywords as anchor text
• Include title attributes in your hyperlinks
• Make sure all of your photos and images have alt tags
• Write your posts directly into your WordPress (or other software) rather than write in Word and copy/paste; word processors add code of their own
• As an alternative, you can write your posts in Notepad and cut/paste
• In your header file, move the title of your post to before the title of your blog - this will optimize each post
• Add a description tag to your header file
• Add categories that use your important keywords
• Upgrade to the latest edition of WordPress (or other blogging software)
• Use tags in addition to categories
• Make sure you put keywords in your post titles and body content

There are plenty of ways to optimize your blog posts without resorting to adding new plugins. That not to say that some plugins aren’t good or shouldn’t be added. But you don’t have to use every plugin that promises you the moon.

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