Essential SEO Tips for WordPress Site

Note: This document will help you do SEO for your WordPress site for beginners, if anyone has more questions, please visit: https://www.mageewp.com/

Why you need SEO for Your WordPress Site?In order to get more traffic to your WordPresssite, you need to get high rank in Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines. Here are some essential SEO tips to optimize your blog posts to improve your search engine rankings.

1.Choose your website topicFirst of all, make your website about one thing. It can be about other stuff, but choose one primary topic that is most essential to your website.

This step is important, so you may want to do a little keyword research before choosing a topic. As well, choosing main keywords is the first thing you need to do before you write content in your WordPress site. Here you can use these tools for choose keywords: A. Google Keyword PlannerB. Google trends

2. Mention keywords where they matter mostInclude your “one thing” in the site title, domain name, description, tagline, keywords, blog categories, page titles, and page content.

3.Write meta title and descriptionMeta title and description are the dominate factor to infullencethe page rank. You need to put the most important keywords in the title, and other keywords in the description.

4.Use keywords in your imagesInclude words that reflect your site topic in the image title, description, and alt attributes. Also, re-title the file name if it doesn’t reflect your main keywords.(e.g. writing-tips.jpg instead of d1234.jpg).

5. Link to internal pages on your site

A lot of content management systems automatically do this, but if yours doesn’t, you’ll want to be intentional about linking to your most important pages directly from your homepage and cross-linking them with each other.

6. Use a permalink structure that includes keywordsSome sites have “ugly” permalink structures that use numbers to identify pages. Don’t do this, it’s bad for SEO and just doesn’t look good.

Use a URL structure that includes text, and make sure you include keywords in your URLs. So instead of having a page’s URL be this:

It should look more like this:

7. Remove anything that slows down your websitePage load time is very important, so get rid of any non-essentials that bog down your website.

These may including music players, large images, flash graphics, and unnecessary plugins.

8. Link to other websites with relevant contentYou can do this by including a blogroll, link list, or resources page on your website. Of course, do it sparingly, as each outbound link is a “vote” for another site. However, if you do it well and people click your links, this tells search engines you are a trusted authority on your particular topic.

9. Update contents frequentlyContent is the king! Sites with dynamic content often rank higher than those with static content. That’s why blogs and directories (like Wikipedia) do so well on search engines. They are constantly being updated with new content.

When writing contents, please note the keyword density is very important, usually, one post should have 2-3 target keywords, with 3% -5% densities to the whole content. Besides, 5-10 long tail keywords are reasonable. Be careful not to overdo this, though. Keyword stuffing can only hurt the quality of your blog posts and may lead Google to punish your site.

10.Make sure your website is indexed in search enginesA lot of search engines will automatically find and index your content, but don’t count on it.

You want to be sure engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo are crawling your site, so that people are finding you online. (You can add them directly, if they’re not.)

11. Have other websites link to you

This is really, really important, when it comes to SEO. The bummer is that it’s not something you can necessarily control. Other than creating excellent content, the only thing you can do is ask (which occasionally works).

My counsel is to spend the time you would trying to convince somebody to link to you on just writing great content. And, start guest posting on other blogs. Regardless of what you do, know that inbound links are essential to SEO.

12. Stop changing your domain name.The age of your URL is a factor in your site’s search ranking, so be patient. If you’re launching a new blog every six months, you’ll never see your site get the value it deserves.

None of the above matters if you create content that sounds like a robot wrote it. So, write great stuff, follow the steps above, have patience, and you’ll see results.

Note: This document will help you do SEO for your WordPress site for beginners, if anyone has more questions, please visit: https://www.mageewp.com/