The only difference i recently noted was that i have not been using the alt text for images and my site is image-heavy. I have started to go back into my media library of published images to add descriptions, text and keywords, but I'm wondering if anyone else experienced this drop in page rank when switching to word press. Is there something huge that i'm missing? My site does not even come up when you do a search for "the louboutin blog" which is kind of scary! Any help on suggested reading etc would be greatly appreciated!!

WordPress.com's guide to everything SEO is also worth a read: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

See here http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topic/sports/

If you want to increase traffic then don't listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work.

Two ways of attracting like-minded subscribers are (1) commenting meaningfully and frequently on blogs with similar content and (2) being active on social networking sites.

On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/

These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/

Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
1. Structure a reader and search engine blog;
2. In blogging content is king create unique, high quality content so publish fresh content frequently;
3. Learn basic SEO so you can use keywords effectively and apply basic SEO to your headlines, blog and posts;
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
4. Make your blog posts look professional;
5. Create at least 4-6 pillar posts and continue to create pillar posts;
Pillar posts are also referred to as flagship content. Pillar posts are comprehensive posts that offer great value to readers as the contents are timeless in nature. They define you as having authority in the niche you blog in.
6. Select and link to appropriate anchor text;
7. Leave meaningful comments on related blogs and encourage comments on your own blog;
8. Develop relationships with other bloggers so you can build a blog readers’ community around your own blog;
9. Support the blog centered communities on related blogs by commenting on them and promoting posts from them;
10. Link to authoritative sources in your posts;
11. Deep link to your earlier related posts in your new posts;
12. Assign appropriate categories and tag your posts with care;
13. Link to related authoritative blogs in your blogroll;
14. Provide RSS feeds for subscribers;
RSS (Rich Site Summary or really simple syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
15. Having a well designed theme is important, evaluate your theme for effectiveness, and if required, create a new header, make improvements or replace your theme and reduce page loading time;
16. Avoid cluttering your blog with widgets that lack reader value and slow page loading time;
17. Buy your own domain and domain mapping;
18. Verify your blog with the three big search engines.
19. Get organized, use an online to do list by developing a blogging workflow;
20. Join social networks and social media sites like Facebook and use Twitter, Friendfeed and other Free RSS directories to promote your blog posts;
21. Promote your blog through social networks, online groups, and selected directories;
22. Develop a social media time management strategy and stick to it;
23. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival;
24. Become a guest blogger on sites with higher page rank than your own site.
25. Create newsletters and/or Ebooks for your subscribers.

If you have specific technical issues please start new threads and we will be glad to help you. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forums-housekeeping?replies=1

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This has helped me a lot with views. I was wondering if anyone has any tips that I can do to repeat this performance. Thank you.

Also, I am looking for other spots blogs to have discussions with via comment sections. Send me your link and I will follow and comment frequently.

Please read this > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

Note that WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate sites with separate username accounts and logins. If you don't have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

We cannot access metadata on free hosted WordPress.com blogs and insert any keyword meta tags. This is because our blogs are all on the same multiuser blogging platform and share a common architecture ie. every blog here wearing the same theme is using the same template, so we bloggers cannot edit templates and insert keywords. You can only access metadata on WordPress.org install as they are free standing installs. Read the differences here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

More to the point is the fact that Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking and has not done so since at least 2009.
See Matts Cutts of Google state that in the videos in this post Revisiting Keywords and Tags

Also note he states that these days days search engines pay more attention to your keywords in your content than they do to your keywords in Tags/Categories. Note also that Google's algorithms can detect whether or not the keyword tags you assign to posts appear in the text of the post.

There is no FTP access to our free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we bloggers cannot install plugins.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

The blog I need help with is futcherwolfsoccer.com.

Lastly, is wordpress like Face Book where my content is "non-exclusive and transferable, etc." ?

You own your content.
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
There are several steps that you can take in order to prevent your material from being used in an unauthorized manner which are explained in this support doc. http://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/

Readers arrive to read our most recent posts. In the case of my blog that means they don't have to slog through over 800 posts to locate the most recent one.

See here for the option of creating a book-like structure > http://en.support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/ Perhaps that will work for you.

You could use a sticky post as an index page > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

Also, I want the SEO to find the key words "Post-traumatic stress disorder". Will the SEO find it on Pages? or just posts? I plan on posting an article about the book under Posts.

Lastly, is wordpress like Face Book where my content is "non-exclusive and transferable, etc." ?
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