It is great news for all Wordpress website owners that Wordpress is automatically SEO friendly, however there are some things that you can do to apply that SEO friendliness to your website and make the most of the optimization.  Why wouldn’t you want to fully benefit from this already easy process?

So how do you do it?  Here are the top ten tips for applying SEO to Wordpress:

Optimize your page titles. You will want to be sure to use your most valuable keywords when titling your pages.  If your website is about wordpress installs you will want to be sure to have a page that is titled that very thing.

Optimize your permalinks. Wordpress offers different permalink structures including the option to have the title of your post to be included in the permalink, instead of just giving the date and the number of the post.  You will want to take advantage of this option to use more and more keywords on your site.

Optimize your images. Wordpress also offers the option of inputting alternate text when you post an image, though you can leave this area blank it is good practice for SEO purposes to input a valuable keyword into this area.  You can also enter a description of the image and some key tags.

Optimize links. When linking to other areas of your website or to other websites you will want to use keywords as often as possible as your anchor text.  Anchor text are the words that are linked to a particular url at an offsite location or within the site itself.  You can also place keywords in the link’s title attribute as well.

Add no index to archives. To avoid the issues associated with duplicate content, you can add the no index meta tag into your header.php file.

Remove all unnecessary links. Why give other websites your traffic when you are wanting people to read your website’s content and stick around a while.  You don’t want to freely give other websites your traffic by placing their links on your site, be choosy when deciding who you will link to.

Using the Social Bookmarking plugin. Allow your website visitors to help you to gain back links by recommending your content through social bookmarking, such as digg, stumbleupon, technorati and others.  The social bookmarking plugin allows visitors to do this easily with a click of the mouse.

Submit your blog to blog directories. You will want to work towards creating backlinks and pings for yourself and one of the best ways to do this is by submitting your blog to directories.  There are dozens and dozens available online both targeted and general.

Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. This is just another way to create links.  Inbound links are key and this will help you to get them as others return the favor of linking.

Write often. The more content you have the better.  Content is key with a Wordpress site so you want the content to always be fresh, unique and of high quality.