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WordPress Law Firm Website Blog Setup – Taking The Guess Work Out!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 at 8:54 am and is filed under Law Firm Websites

I can across a great post to where you can make your WordPress Law Firm Website blog a winning success in terms of SEO and interaction within your target audience. This will help any new law firm website blog or exisiting site with some key seo plugins and other suggestions.

WordPress installed and ready to go within your hosting provider

Unique theme installed (not the WordPress default theme)
In WP Settings —> General make these changes: Site Title = Main KW, Site Description = Description including main KW. Email should be youremail@email.com. Timezone = YourTimezone.
In Posts —> Categories, change the default “Uncategorized” category to the main KW phrase. Then do a Wonder Wheel search and find the other categories to add.
In WP Settings —> Permalinks change it to Custom Structure, use /%category%/%postname%/
In WP Settings —> Discussion change it so an admin must always approve a comment and that it will never email me. Do not allow pingbacks & trackbacks.
Remove all default Blogroll links from Dashboard
Google Analytics installed & configured w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…for-wordpress/
Mobile version enabled & configured w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/
Multiple languages enabled & configured w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-translator/
Akismet installed & activated (key is XXXXXX)
All In One SEO Pack installed & configured w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…-one-seo-pack/
Caching installed / enabled w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
Captcha for comments enabled w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…for-wordpress/
Related posts displaying at the bottom of individual post pages w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…-posts-plugin/
Facebook “Like” button installed
Archives page built ( linked to in sidebar w/ Sitemap ) using http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…ives-reloaded/
Post Plugin Library installed @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…lugin-library/ (Does nothing by itself, it’s used for Popular Posts & Random Posts plugins)
Popular Posts plugin installed w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…-posts-plugin/ . Use sidebar widget to show 5-10 popular posts.
Random Posts plugin installed w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…-posts-plugin/ – use same settings as Popular Posts Plugin. Install sidebar widget to show 5-10 Random Posts.
Psychic Search plugin installed & activated from: http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/ps/
Install SEO Booster Lite: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-booster-lite/ – add SEO Bootster widget to the sidebar, title it something like, “Recently Searched”
Install & activate SEO friendly images @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/ – in it’s setting, check both “Override” boxes to override WP defaults
Install & activate SEO Smart Links @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…tomatic-links/
Install & activate To Title Case: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/to-title-case/
User sitemap built w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sitemap-generator/ . Link to the sitemap at the bottom of the sidebar.
Google XML Sitemap installed, configured, built w/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…map-generator/
URL & XML Sitemap added to my Google Webmaster Tools account

These helpful plugins and tips will allow your WordPress Law Firm Website breathe a bit better! Look for more WordPress Law Firm Website tips and tricks from us, as we believe that WordPress is the best solution for a small to large law firm website for all!