Search engine optimization is the daily dental care of blogging and webwork. While most of us I am sure have regimens that ensure a reluctant nod to SEO, I am sure that there is a great number of us who are annoyed with the bothersome tediousness of making sure everything is google friendly.

I my case, I was still using the broken and frayed stick method of this SEO routine. Wordpress helps. They make it pretty easy to add tags and keep things organized, but I am lazy and (embarrassed) I rarely use categories and tags. I am mostly a “write and post” kind of guy.

So I am trying to fix that problem and I found two plugins that are both easy to use and make a world of difference. One is called Headspace2. It is a meta tool that easily creates and suggests tags and allows custom page specific information to be applied to pages, archives, even themes.

The next plug-in is called Google XML Sitemaps. As most everybody knows Google uses its own secret magic formula for generating search engine results. However we do know that is scrubs for data from sites in a specific way and if if your site doesn’t mix well with the web crawlers you ranking drops. This particular plug in creates Google Friendly sitemaps that ensures that Google has the most up-to-date info every time you add delete or update a post. What is even better about this plug-in is the Ron Popeil “Set it and forget it” nature. It just works in the background as you write.

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