SEO Update

# Upload a blog post with a title very similar to the trending term – ideally you want your title to be an exact match of the trending term or at least at the beginning of your title tag.

# Make sure it’s pinged to Google blog search, you’ll probably have this set up by default but it’s important to be indexed early.

# Point a few links in its direction, they don’t have to be particularly high quality, perhaps from your twitter account or from a couple of popular blogs you know get spider-ed often and ideally have their links followed

# Make sure you have plenty of internal links pointing at the page – if you have a really complex page rank sculpting system in place the pages getting cached that day might not encourage the bots to spider the page you’re hoping to slingshot into the rankings.

# All the usual SEO best practice tips apply, key phrase in url, h1 etc. But you’re blogs already set up like that right?

via Using Twitter Trends to Pick Up Easy Search Traffic.

3. Show related post based on search queries

When a visitor comes to your site through a search engine, they are looking for something very specific. If they land on your site and do not immediately find what they are looking for, they are as good as gone. It would be smart for a blog to detect these search terms from search engine visitors and display a list of posts that closely matches these terms. That way if the current post is not what the visitor is looking for, they will be tempted to visit other posts relating to their search terms before they leave your site.

To implement this, all you have to do is install either WP Greet Box, Referrer Detector, or Landing Sites WordPress plugin.

4. Thank a first time commenter

Most people love human interaction. I love reading blogs because I know that there is somebody on the other side that I can email and chat with. A good way to gain loyal readers is to thank first time commenters for contributing to your blog. This helps you breaks the ice and assure your new reader that you are there if they ever want to email you.

For this feature, you can use the Comment Relish WordPress plugin.

via 9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smart” | Weblog Tools Collection.