Friday, March 14, 2014

How to do On Page SEO for Wordpress?


WordPress is the most used CMS in the world. According to Wikipedia It’s actually powers around 17% of all "top 1 million sites". By using Wordpress, you can do your on page SEO works very easily.

Check out the points below for your pages to make proper SEO.

Permalink structure:

At first you need to change your permalink structure.
You can change your permalink structure under settings.
Settings  ---------------->Permalinks
After clicking Permalinks you can see the default permalink is set to?p=<postid>, but I suggest you to use  /%postname%/




http://webdesignkent.co VS http://www.webdesignkent.co:

Before domain name www and non www are not same. So you need to think that what you want to show up.

Go to your General Settings, Under Settings ------------> General then Setup your desired url. 

 



 ------------------->You can see many free SEO plugin over WP plugin directory but I prefer you to use YOAST SEO plugin. So now click on your Plugin options                            Add new plugin. Then you can see a search box over there. Search by typing YOAST SEO Plugin then install & activate it.

   


How to optimize your Article or What is the most powerful factor of an Article?
For your content, write more than 300 words, title should be 70 chars and meta-description should be 156 chars long (max.)

Title:  <title> is one of the most important factors to rank of your search results. So, your targeted keyword / phrase at the beginning of your title are considered to improve rankings.
Use your Keyword the first paragraph of the copy.

H1 to H6 Tag: You can use H1, H2…., H6 tag into your article. In your H2 tags, you can use your KW or phrase. It will rank your article. 

Meta Description: Meta description tags are not so important for search engine rankings but extremely important for gaining user click-through from SERPs. So, you have to write a good description for your content, containing the target keyword / phrase.  

URL: Use your keyword / phrase in the URL section. 

Images: You can include some images for your content and must use meaningful alt tag for your images. 

XML sitemaps: By setup a xml sitemap you can tell Google or other search engines that your website has been updated. So, you can use yoast xml sitemap or other xml sitemap plugin. If you have like to use other xml sitemap plugin then must uncheck yoast xml sitemap square button.  

Webmaster tool: Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages visibility on Google. So you need to create a web master tools account from www.google.com/webmasters/tools then add your site. After that you need to verify your account. So you need to copy your verify code and paste it under yoast seo ----------------------> Google Webmaster Tools.


I think, now you guys can optimize your site properly through this guide. Wish you the best of luck. Thanks!!

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