This posting is about creating SEO for use in a Wordpress site. This site uses a Fullscreen Graph Paper Press theme and Wordpress 3.2.1
I've used several SEO related plugins to help with the SEO on Digitalfilmcolorist.com. SEO can be built in part by adding a few features like a site map, meta tags and validating html which I've done. Perhaps most important is good content. You can improve your search-ability by having lots of good written text content on each page. That means at some point you might want to think of what sort of text descriptions you could include somewhere in your site. For an all around SEO it also helps to have lots of links on other sites pointing towards your site (browsers read this to mean your site is important) so if you can link from other sites to this site, or ask other friends or associates to link to your site you can improve your ratings. Wordpress can tell you more about SEO here.
I submitted Digitalfilmcolorist.com to Google and Yahoo. Submitting a site description to a browser helps them find and list your site properly and more rapidly than if it is left to be discovered by browsers over time. I last submitted your site on October 9, 2011- it should not be done more than once a month, and each submission can take up to 10 days ( or as few as two) to show up as changed in a browser. You can submit your site to Google here. You can submit your site to Yahoo here. Read here that it does not make a difference if you submit and resubmit your site often. It is something that should be done when significant changes are made to the site.
Meta Tags have been created for your site. Learn about meta tags here. I used text from your bio and a definition of color grading from Wikipedia to generate some additional common text so that if someone searches color grading or digital film coloring they will hit on this very popular string of text that is also associated with your site:
"Color grading or colour painting, is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally."
This phrase appears only in meta tags and will not be visible in your site, but will show up in the site description when browsers search for you or "digital film colorist" or "color grading". I used an online tool for taking the bio text of your site and I gathered basic descriptions of the movies you have worked on and loaded these into a keyword generator. The keywords used in your site are the most popular words that can be used in association with your site. That's a basic description... You can change the text in your site description and your keywords by changing the description in the Add Meta Tags plugin. Keep reading to learn about this plugin...
The text on digitalfilmcolorist.com is very minimal. Increasing text could increase traffic over time. In particular you may try to use important words frequently that you suspect people will be looking for in your site. For example, the name "Paul Byrne" and the words "digital film colorist". If the name "Paul Byrne" appears 10 times on this site and 3 times on another site, a browser will take you to the page with ten mentions first.
The meta tag tool used on your site is named in the Plugins section as Add Meta Tags. You can change the info in this section by looking in the "Settings" section of your blogs dashboard. In this
menu click on "Meta Tags" and you will see all the info that this Plugin manages. Read more about SEO and this plugin to
learn how to manipulate this section. You'll need to read about how keywords and meta tags work in order to make
relevant changes to this section.
Another SEO element that has been added to your site is a site map. Read about what a site map is and how it works here.
A plugin has been used to build a site map for your site. Look in the Plugins section of your dashboard. The Plugin in use on your site is Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress. You will need to read about this plugin and about site maps in general to make relevant changes to this plugin. To make changes Click on the "settings" section of Plugin.
That should get you off to a good start!
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