WordPress SEO Tutorial - The Definitive Guide. How to Use WordPress SEO by Yoast. This is a getting started guide for people who want to optimize their WordPress sites for search engines.
WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the most popular of all WordPress SEO plugins, having been downloaded over 670,000 times since it's launch early in 2011. You can also click here to read our review of another highly popular SEO plugin called All-in-One SEO Pack. In this tutorial we're going to introduce you to the WordPress SEO plugin and also show you how to choose settings that will work successfully. Step 1. Install the WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin Go to DashboardPluginsAdd NewSearch for Wordpress SEO by YoastClick Install Now After you activate the plug-in, you will see a new menu section on the Dashboard for managing your SEO. Step 2. Yoast WordPress is pretty cool in that it really won't let you make a mistake.
Step 3. The Fix It button takes you to your Permalinks Settings page. Be sure to save your changes and then go back to the SEO Dashboard. Step 4. Step 5. Google, Yahoo! The 15 Best WordPress Plugins to Use in 2011. One of the reasons that I’m so madly in love with WordPress is the thousands of plugins available. It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish on your blog, there is probably a WordPress plugin that will allow you to do it.
This list will provide you with 15 of the best WordPress plugins available today. Only the 15 best WordPress plugins have made it while anything less than amazing has been kicked to the street. Each of these WordPress plugins are used at Site Sketch 101 and I personally recommend each of them to you. The following plugins are posted in the order that I recommend them. The 15 Best WordPress Plugins to Use in 2013 W3 Total Cache - This is one of the best WordPress plugins for two reasons.
Group Discussion. Write Up On The Yoast Wordpress SEO Talk From Sascon. I wasn’t planning writing this post – but advice from the Problogger.com forum convinced me to!
Last week I headed to Sascon to meet like minded social and SEO peeps, learn a lot and drink unhealthy amounts of alcohol. One of the more anticipated talks by myself was the WordPress SEO talk late on the Friday. The talk was taken by Yoast, who’s known in the WordPress community for designing loads of plugins, but is also an accomplished SEO, with a lot of strong clients. He uploaded his presentation onto his website (bottom one), but here are the key takeaways from the talk. Site Structure WordPress sites should be structured like a pyramid. Site Performance Speed of the site is a ranking factor, plus it’s always handy having shaving speed off your site’s loading time.
First of all carry out analysis using Google Page Speed Online.You should have a W3 Total Cache plugin installed as it’s what Yoast considers to be the best. Cutting Edge SEO Techniques. Yoast's WordPress SEO Plugin - how it helps you write SEO friendly pages and posts. For quite a while I routinely recommended the All in SEO WordPress plugin, but that changed when Yoast introduced his WordPress plugin.
I’ve used it on four WordPress sites and each time my appreciation of this wonderful plugin has grown. Not just for myself, but also because it helps my clients write more SEO optimized posts and pages. I used to get frustrated after carefully explaining to new bloggers and site owners how to write SEO friendly permalinks, page titles and meta descriptions — and then watching them forget everything I told them by creating poorly optimized posts and pages. Now I can lead the horse to water, and he (or she) actually drinks it!
Another great bonus about this plugin is that is it so comprehensive is that it does the job of several plugins. There is so many features in this plugin, that I am not going to cover them all, but I would like to show how it helps you optimize your pages and posts to be SEO friendly. The third tab has a lot of power. Kathy Alice.