It’s Monday again, and that means another installment of Ask David. I Only got a handful of questions in the past week, so this won’t take too long for me to write.

Jason asks: What are a few tips to SEO a Wordpress blog?

One of the best plugins to help SEO a wordpress blog is Optimal Title. This plugin changes the structure of your page titles. “Having your page information appear before your blog name in the title is advantageous because it provides more meaningful search engine results and browser bookmark names.”

Another reccommendation I have is changing the Permalinks structure in your Options menu. Out of the box, your wordpress URLs will look like yourblog.com/?p=13 or something. For SEO, it’s better to have your keywords in the URL. I use this custom structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ .  This puts the year/month/post-title in the URL.

Jeff from Fan Site Portal asks: What’s your favorite TV show?

It’s tough to pick just one favorite show. I’m a big fan of LOST. NO matter how crazy the show gets, I’m still addicted. I am also a fan of Family Guy, Seinfeld, Still Standing, and Man vs. Wild.

Matt from Fleeing The Social Scene asks: Do you seem to notice a trend of bloggers using turning points in their lives as fuel for posts? And if so, what do you think of it, and if its a good thing how do you suspect a person could maximize their return (either revenue or traffic) by using the tactic?

I haven’t noticed bloggers using turning points in their lives as fuel for posts so much that it is becoming a trend. A lot of bloggers use their blogs for personal use as well as business purposes, so it’s natural for them/us to talk about events happening in their lives.

I have posted about turning points in my blog (my engagement for example). I think it’s a good thing to post about these events if you have them. You could maximize these efforts by selling products related to your turning point event. I could have posted a link to a wedding invitations offer in one of my posts, and maybe I would have got 1 or 2 leads. You can also bring in traffic to your site that you would not normally target.

Other turning points in someone’s life could be having a child, graduating colleged, turning 40…If you post about these things, your blog will get indexed under those keywords and bring in a whole new wave of traffic you otherwise never would have had.