WordPress SEO Tips & Tricks
Updated: Nov 10, 2019
How To Rank Higher On Google
I recently started redesigning my WordPress website. I would like to share with you a few useful WordPress SEO tips and tricks, video tutorials, and articles that were beneficial to me for improving my website’s visibility.
A Few SEO Tips & Resources To Enhance Your WordPress Website
Yoast SEO Plugin
DOWNLOAD YOAST SEO PLUGIN HERE
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Formatting Blog Posts
Create plenty of headings, use small paragraphs, high resolution images, and videos.
Use Categories & Tags
Use categories, and tags on your WordPress website.
Categories are used to sort and group content into different sections.
Tags describe certain details of your post, similar to keywords.
Links
Add links internal and external meaning links to other websites, and also links to other pages on your website. Find out more…
Fonts
Make sure the font and font size is easy to view.
Read more about WordPress fonts…
Concise & Clear Writing
Keep your writing simple and clear, and have a clear target audience in mind.
Alt tags
Optimize all your images with alt tags
(you’ll see this field when you upload the image file).
Proofread Your Work
Avoid duplicate content and grammar mistakes.
Shareable Content
Make your content shareable. (One Plugin option is the Ultimate Social Icons and Share Plugin which covers over 200+ social media platforms and is a free plugin). Another option is the Easy Share Plugin or the Simple Social buttons !
Permalinks
Set up Permalinks.
The URLs of your website pages and posts are called Permalinks.
Adding a keyword is usually helpful. Keep your slugs short — preferably five words or less.
Find out more tips from this Yoast article “The perfect WordPress SEO Permalink Structure”.
Google Analytics
Use Google Analytics. See Video Tutorial Below or watch on YouTube .
How to Install Google Analytics on WordPress
How To Install Google Analytics in WordPress via WPBeginner – WordPress Tutorials
Sitemap
Create a sitemap for your website. Yoast SEO or XML Sitemaps Generator are easy to use options that I have used.
Titles & Meta Tags
Write effective titles and meta tags. Platinum SEO Pack plugin offers this feature if you find writing effective titles and meta tags difficult.
Edit Yoast SEO Snippets
At the bottom of your post you can edit the Snippet that appears on Google which is a part of the Yoast SEO plugin.
Learn How To Setup Yoast SEO Using Your WordPress Website.
The Yoast SEO plugin will help increase your website visibility and Google ranking enhancing your WordPress website!
Watch this video for an easy step-by-step guide on how install and use Yoast SEO for WordPress. Darrel Wilson walks you through this process and breaks everything down.
Click here for FREE YOAST SEO Course
Take A Look At These Great Articles On SEO Trends & Tips To Learn More.
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Web Design Tricks to Improve Engagement
Experts offer a variety of ways to improve search traffic to your website but few talk about how design affects traffic. Use these tricks to improve yours.
Web Design Tricks to Improve Engagement via Women On Business
For More great SEO Tips check out Neil Patel's Blog
https://neilpatel.com/blog/
I hope this post has given you some new insight into SEO strategies that you may want to experiment with and further explore!
I’d love to hear your ideas on SEO strategies, and how to enhance your WordPress website visibility. Please share your thoughts below in the comment section.
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