This is old archive on WordCamp 2007, Matt Cutts from google said some Wordpress SEO Tricks for Google, Here the best tips to get your blog rank higher in search engines without buying or exchanging links. I am sure this information still work and useful specially on Busby SEO Test.
- Use a 3-4 word long ALT tag description with every image – good for SEO plus screen readers.
- Use dashes to separate words, hyphens are OK but spaces are bad. Now, the underscore AND the hyphen have the same word separator value.
- Standardize backlinks (don’t mix and match www with non-www) choose one.
- Make sure post creation dates are easy to find, make your visitor happy.
- Google doesn’t care about link depth (the number of slashes in your permalink (blog/title/date/#)) – but Yahoo does.
- File extensions in the URL won’t affect rankings (.php, .html, .htm, .asp, .aspx, .jsp), just don’t use .exe extension. (more…)