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WordPress SEO- Search engine optimization

When creating a first website it can sometimes be particularly hard to build traffic. This is why you need to optimize your WordPress site for search engines. By doing this you will rank higher in search engine searches and drive more traffic to your site. There are many plugins and tips you can use to do this and in this post you will learn what you need to do.

Speed up load time

a factor for search engines crawling your blog is load speed and how fast a page will load so you must try and aim for the fastest speed possible when loading. There are fortunately many things you can do to speed up WordPress:

  • Use a plugin such as WP super cache
  • Deactivate plugins you do not need
  • Choosing a fast host
  • Compress images
  • +Use a simple theme

Doing these will easily increase your sites load time and hopefully help it in search engine rankings.

Permalinks

Permalink’s are what WordPress uses for page names and posts in the address bar. In WordPress you can change the permalink’s in Settings > Permalink’s.

By default a WordPress site’s permalink structure will be the page ID. However to optimize it for search engines you should change it to a custom structure with /category/post-name/ or just /post-name/

Tags

You must make sure you use tags on your posts with WordPress. Tags are used in your meta description what a search engine will read when indexing your site

Useful Plugins

Add meta tags

A great plugin that lets you add custom meta tags and a custom meta description to your site easily.

HeadSpace 2

A all in one SEO management plugin with great features that make it stand out from any other SEO plugin for WordPress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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