Thinking about SEO should begin when you first start setting-up your WordPress site. Sure you can go back and change settings and fix issues, but why not optimize your configureation from the get go?

Lets take a look at a few settings that may impact your site optimization …

• General Settings: Title and Tagline
• Writing: Update Services: Make sure you dont remove
• Reading Settings: # of posts to show: I use 5
• Discussion Settings: Defaults: Good, Autoclose Comments : 30 days
• Privacy Settings: Let the engines see the site
• Permalink Structure: Custom Structure:  /%postname% .html

This may seem basic common sense, but you wouldnt believe the number of issues I have seen due to someone trying something different with one of these settings.