With MS Word SEO Your First Post in WordPress

A Note about Users Before You Create a Post

When you first install your blog it’s just you. You are the only user in WordPress. Before you start inviting members into your community it’s important you know the different levels users can be assigned.

You can Choose User’s Permission Levels.

-          Administrator- Has unrestricted use of all interface functions like backing up, installing plugins, moderating posts or upgrading. This is the highest level.

-          Editor- An editor can do everything the administrator can do accept the important stuff like adding plug-ins or changing theme templates

-          Author- Anything an author composes can be changed by the same author. They can upload their own media.

-          Contributor- They are able to submit clippings or articles for review by admin. Contributors can only publish as a draft view.

-          Subscriber- A subscriber can only see their own profile when they login. They are the peon of the gang, but nothing to be ashamed of! You can make comments provided you login with your user name and password.

It will depend on your relationship with each member what level of access you want to assign. For example your business partner will likely have administrative access while a new member would be a Contributor.

From MS Word

Microsoft Word is my favorite way to post in WordPress. You can fully assemble your article with pictures, headings, bold, italic, embed hyperlinks, and insert tables. WordPress actually has a special paste function for MS Word. The way I like to do it is saving the file as a webpage in MS word. It will automatically create a folder with images only.

Prepare for SEO

When preparing your article keep in mind that SEOing each article will give you a better chance of ranking under keywords. This may sound silly to you but if you start to think about the reason you are writing each article you can promote keywords to increase your targeted traffic. With a SEO plugin your blog posts will have Meta tag keywords, descriptions, titles, and tags. Trust me; it’s worth the extra few minutes on each article. At the tail of each article outline the SEO attributes.

Saving MS Word

Save your document from MS Word As a “Web Page (*.htm; *.html). All your images are nicely stored in one folder automatically. You will need them in WordPress. For now just make sure you save your file in a known location.

From MS Word to WP

Text Editor Intro

The first step is really simple, hold the crtl key down and press the A key (select All), and make a copy (ctrl C) in MS Word. Now toggle over to WordPress, click Posts>Add New and use the “Paste from Word” function located in the WordPress toolbar. Note: if you don’t like the idea of pasting from Word, you can copy html code into the WordPress editor.

Check First Draft

Your First draft previews instantly. You can look at the way it will preview or the html view. You will note that most of the html formatting in MS Word is translated flawlessly. In previous versions of WordPress this has presented problems. It looks like the developers have really got it licked now.

Inserting Images

At the top of your new WordPress 2.8.3 interface there is an icon for uploading images. If you do not see it, look for the “Kitchen sink” icon to activate more editor options. Now click the icon and you’ll be taken to an upload page where you can select files to upload. Navigate to the location where you saved your MS Word file. Find the jpg images and upload. WordPress allows you to really identify, resize, and align each photo. Make sure you describe images best as you can then click “Insert into Post”

Uploaded Image

Check your first image in your text editor. If it looks good to you, upload the others following the same process.

SEOing Your Post

If you are not using at least one SEO plugin, shame on you! There are 7 basic elements to SEOing your first post.

• SEO Title
• SEO Description
• SEO Keywords
• SEO Tag
• Main Title
• URL name
• Category Choice

You can control all of these on every post by spending a little extra time on your posts. I like to prepare this information as part of my article writing. When we are finally ready to post, I will apply my SEO magic.

Create a Category

Creating categories takes a few seconds. It is the research that will take all your time. That is, if you believe in market research; if not just name your category with wisdom. In my blog posting sequence, the last thing I do is select or create the category.

Are You Ready to Publish?

Give your blog a final check; use the preview button if you wish. When you feel confident your post meets your own standards hit the magic blue button.

Watch a WordPress Tutorial on SEO for WordPress Blog Posting

When your blog is published, check the SEO in Source code for the fun of it. You should see your keywords and description in the source code. Look for the SEO title you made in the browser <title> tags. Cool eh! Welcome to the world of SEO WordPress blog mastering.

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