There’s no lack of advice on the web, regarding what you must do, to better your WordPress web site’s search engine rankings. It’s easy to become confused if you read everything that is available, because a group of people concur with others, while another group completely disagree and provide dissimilar advice.

You can be extremely wary of any advice given by someone who says you should use traffic exchange sites.

Recently a distinguished group of search engine optimization experts provided their professional opinions to SEOmoz regarding what’s important for outstanding search engine rankings today.

Given the consensus views of the experts, these are the four most important ranking factors for SERPs.

Keywords that are Used in the Title

The use of the appropriate keywords in the text for the title tag of a WordPress page is of extreme importance. Not only does it help with improved rankings, it also assists with improved click-through from the search engine listings to your web page. It’s of reduced value to be listed high in the search results and not receive that many clicks. The primary purpose should be to get as many targeted visitors to the web pages as possible.

The keywords that were used by the searcher are highlighted in bold in the results of the search. If the right keyphrase of your page title is bolded, it stands an improved opportunity of being seen and getting a mouse click. However, highlighted keywords are not the only element to take into consideration when composing the page title tag.

A wisely composed page title tag, that entices the web surfer to click through, can attract lots of additional clicks. It’s better to get a hundred clicks from listing number 5 through having a great page title tag than fifty clicks from listing number 3 with a boring title, correct?

Anchor Text used by Inbound Links

The anchor text that’s used in the hyperlink that points to your site from another site counts a lot in the SE algorithms to decide what your site is focused on. In addition, what your site is focused on influences largely what it will rank for in the search results.

If it’s possible that you can exert any influence on the anchor text that third-party sites employ when they link to you, then it’s a very prudent investment of your time.

A greater number of web sites that have links to your web site utilizing a particular set of keywords, or variations of that keyphrase, will prompt the search engines to more easily compute that your site is focused on that specific keyphrase.

It’s far more advantageous when the content of the destination page on your site contains that specific keyphrase and its latent semantic equivalents.

The General Link Popularity of Your Web Site

The number of links that point to your web site is used by the search engines to compute the relative importance of your web site. They take into account both the quality of hyperlinks and the quantity of the hyperlinks.

The more different sites that link to your site, the higher the search engines will rate the perceived importance of your web site.

Link building is a never-ending work in progress. One can never have a sufficient number of backlinks pointing to your site. It’s true that it’s possible to build links too fast and that can trigger some alerts in the algorithms of the search engines. However, if performed as an ongoing effort employing a long-term outlook, every link is worth the resources spent in getting it. The links all contribute to an improved perceived importance of your web site.

Link Popularity in the Internal Link Structure of the Site

Naturally, some of your web pages will gain more links than others. The pages that don’t obtain lots of external backlinks could be the true income generating pages that you would desire to rank high in the search engine listings. Internal linking structure, and the anchor text used for the internal links, is the way to disperse PageRank and reputation inside your own site.

The easiest approach to success is to obtain the plugin for professional WordPress search engine optimization that’s specifically designed to perform that task.

Some search engine optimization experts believe that an internal link carries the same weight as a link from an external page. That doesn’t mean the web site will gain high rankings with nothing more than internal links.

What it does mean is that you could get a certain page ranked by having internal links pointing to it even though it does not have lots of external backlinks, on the condition that the remainder of the web site has acquired sufficient PageRank from external links.

It only works for the log in duration. Next time you come back you will have to repeat repair.

But it will do the job until the next WordPress upgrade.

I tried all the fixes from all the forums I could find, and none of them worked.

In the end the fix was super easy.

Do the following, in this order:

• Go to plugins
• Click the ‘Deactivate all Plugins’
• Go to Write Post
• Check Visual Editor. It should now be working at this stage.
• Go to Plugins click ‘Reactivate Plugins’. (It will only reactivate the previously active plugins.)
• Go to ‘Write Post’ and check again. Should still be working.

Some interesting points to note. If not done in this order, it doesn’t seem to work. Ie: If plugins are deactivated and reactivated without navigating away it doesn’t fix it. I had to do this to each computer I use, not just one, for the same websites. I assume there is a caching issue here, however clearing the browser cache seemed to make no difference.

I hope this helps some of you, let me know how you go! I would be interested to hear your results. So far it has worked on three of my sites.