These are 3 simple ways that will really improve your blog. And as the title suggests, they are extremely easy to implement… Well, the last one is a little more complicated, but still easy in some sense. They are subtle improvements, but believe me when I tell you that they can provide incredible benefits, including:

• More link love
• More links in Google
• Higher page rank

If that really is not good enough for you, then by all means, leave a comment and maybe we can talk about it… Either way, here are the tips:

1. Add DoFollow

   When a user leaves a comment, by default Wordpress doesn’t let Google pick up on the link to their homepage. With a very simple plugin, you can remedy this and give your commentators a nice link to help enhance their page rank. Plus it is just polite. So, go download the plugin and activate it.

2. Use Clean URLs

   Here is another strange default setting that Wordpress has; if you look at the address for a blog, you will notice that instead of words, Wordpress assigns numbers, letters and question marks to your pages and posts. This is neither people friendly, nor search engine friendly. To solve this issue, just read this tutorial.

3. Set Your Preferred Domain

   This can actually be quite the severe problem. You probably know that with your own site, you can type www.yoursite.com or just yoursite.com and it will work just fine. However Google, and other powers that be, recognize these to be 2 different domains and each can have its own page rank. They may be lower ranks individually than if you just had one. To that end, Nate Whitehill has a great tutorial, but if that is too intimidating and you have Wordpress, you can download this plugin.