WordPress How To - Manage Blog Posts Many people type their WordPress blog posts and then move on. However with some WordPress ‘How To’, you can maximise your blog posts and gain extra benefits, with the minimum of effort. This article provides you with five tips for managing your WordPress blog posts.

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If you have a series of guest posts on your blog, whose user account are they being published under? You could supply each guest poster with an account, enabling them to be informed of comments. However I recommend that guest posts be published under a ‘Guest Post’ account, that only administrators have access to. This tightens your security and reduces your administration headaches long-term.

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Some search engines do take notice of keywords used for internal linking. Most WordPress blogs cater to a small selection of topics. It would be worth revisiting the old posts and reviewing any existing links you have in place. Are you using researched keywords for internal links? Do the posts have too many links? Good blog administration is also realising old posts should be regularly analysed and adapted if need be.

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Remove WordPress Revisions If your WordPress blog has over fifty posts, chances are the MySQL database is bloated. You should consider removing all old revisions, plus turning revisions off. For some revisions are not important, for others it would mean adapting their blogging habits. However a smaller MySQL database could help with website performance and thus website SEO.

It is often noted that there are less visitors to blogs over weekends. However I’ve noticed there is often less blog content being published over weekends also. This creates an opportunity if leveraged correctly. WordPress gives you the facility to schedule your blog posts. So if you write two or three blog posts one day, it is worth scheduling the posts for specific times to reach a larger target audience. Also scheduling is incredibly useful if you are away.

Schedule Posts

It does depend on the subject matter, but for most blog posts, once the posts achieve a certain age, it is often the spammers that are trying to leave comments on older posts. Consider turning off comments for older posts, thus reducing the demands on your spam management. On some blogs comments are irrelevant and instead they most likely should be turned off for all blog posts, new and old.

Turn off Comments on Older Posts

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