1. Check to see if your wordpress.org theme has SEO Settings? If so – click and review and apply changes as you wish.
2. If your theme doesn’t have SEO Settings – then you are still in luck – WordPress.org‘s amazing plugins (of course!) – install All In One SEO Pack plugin.
   • When you use this plugin – make sure you have the Home Page set the way you want it, Post Title as “%post_title% and Page Title as %page_title% | %blog_title%
   • You may wish to apply “Noindex” to your archives and tag pages – as these are duplicate to the actual blog page.
   • “NoFollow” for your home page full over “Read More” linking to the complete blog posts – then you may want to apply this: within your index.php file
     

     Look for <a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” then simply add “rel=”nofollow”

     <a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” “rel=”nonfollow”

3.  Are your permalinks customized? Change your permalinks to /%postname%/
4. Does www and non-www work for your website? To test this – type in www.domain.com into your browser – does it go to your site? Then type in domain.com into your browser – does it go to your site? If one of them doesn’t work – then you need to get it setup so it does.Or visit WebsiteGrader.com -
   Permanent Redirect Not Found
   Search engines may think stacijansma.com and www.stacijansma.com are two different sites.You should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a “301 redirect”) between these sites. Once you do that, you will get full search engine credit for your work on these sites.

   With WordPress it should be setup – however it is coded as a 302 and 301 redirect is best.

   • To get this to work for your website you will need to edit your .htaccess file# Begin 301RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

     # BEGIN WordPress
     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteBase /
     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
     RewriteRule ./index.php [L]
     </IfModule>
     # END WordPress

   If you want to redirect from the www to the non-www then this portion needs to be changed:

   # Begin 301RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.com [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Hope this helps you! If you have anything to add – please leave a comment and share with others!