Here is a quick and digestible tutorial that teaches you the ins and outs of WordPress SEO. We’ll answer how it works and the absolute best ways to implement the most valuable strategies so that you can get your website optimized for ranking higher in search engines!
If you’ve never heard of SEO before don’t worry, a lot of people don’t understand it fully, but this video will clearly guide you through the process.
What is SEO?
Search Engine Optimization is a methodology of strategies and techniques used to increase the amount of visitors to a website by getting a high ranking in search results. Getting your website on the first page of a search engine is the ultimate goal. Being on the first page means viewers are more likely to see and click on your website if it’s ranked high and placed above all the other results.
To hear more of our best SEO strategies, check out our article here: The Future of SEO: The Three Cs and How To Implement Them Today.
So how does Google rank pages?
Google promotes authority pages to the top of its rankings. It’s your job to ensure your page is an authority page by creating content that people love and come back to over and over again. Create content that is engaging, interesting, and unique and it will be shared all over the internet through social media. By doing this, over a period of time, Google may pick up on these authority signals and support your page as a more relevant search result.
Getting your content talked about and back linked to is important, but don’t confuse quantity with quality. It is vital to create quality content that your visitors will love. Think about your target market and create content that matches their needs and desires. This strong quality creates sustainable Google rankings.
For more on this, check out our 6 Best Content Marketing Strategies article here: 6 Content Marketing Strategies: How To Rank For Any Keyword [Infographic]
However, creating quality content isn’t the only way to give your website a much better rank. To increase your rankings even more, you can also use a nifty plugin called WordPress SEO by Yoast!
Yoast SEO Plugin
Yoast’s SEO plugin, simply put, helps you write better content. It gives you a snippet preview of what your post will look like in search results. This is important because you are able to see what will be displayed whens someone is searching for your topic. You’ll be able to see whether your title is too long or too short, if your meta description makes sense in the context of a search result, and which exact keywords you’re really targeting all in one place.
Using this plugin will help you not only increase your search relevancy, but it will increase the click through rate (CTR) for organic search results. More people will be more likely to click on your page because you’re now really providing a more targeted and relevant answer to someone’s search query.
How to Install Yoast WordPress SEO
So, in order to install Yoast WordPress SEO follow these 3 simple steps:
- Go to WordPress Plugins and Add New.
- Then search for WordPress SEO by Yoast.
- Click on Download/Install, then Activate, and your done! (You’ll now be able to see the plugin in your dashboard).
With the plugin you’ve got the page analysis functionality which checks simple things you’re bound to forget. For example, it will determine whether your images in your post have an alt tag containing your focus keyword for that post. It also lets you set templates for titles and meta descriptions for all types of pages. This will help you designate your specific targeted keywords. It makes everything simplified. You can now come up with a template and no longer have to think about it! With all of these benefits among many more found in this plugin, your website will have a great start to high rankings within search engines.
This is just one of many options out there. For even more ways to truly optimize your site, you’ve got to check out our 9 SEO MUST HAVE PLUGINS AND TOOLS. Here!
Three takeaways:
- Be Relevant: Understand what kind of content your potential customers are looking for and speak to their needs.
- Create Great Content: Create a great site with awesome content that people will truly benefit from and share with others.
- Download WordPress SEO by Yoast: Be sure to use WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin in order to really tighten things up and optimize each piece of content to its fullest potential.
“By creating great and relevant content and making sure it shows as a results will create the best kind of marketing: word of mouth. So, by working smart, you’ll get people sharing and linking to your website in no time!”
I hope you’ve enjoyed these helpful tips and have learned all about WordPress SEO. And if you have, be sure to like and share this article and video with someone you think it could benefit too. Thank you!
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Great website, really enjoyed it.
Ranking a website on Google is a tricky and very sensitive variety of tasks. If you follow all steps from from the beginning, which is building the website, it will be easier for you to rank up. YOAST, as mentioned above, is very powerful tool that helps you chose what will be shown on google search results if your link is one of them.
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Both tools are useful if used properly. Adwords is a great tool with branding and new products. SEO is more like a long term strategy. To test conversions, adwords is very useful and comes in handy while seo targets are not yet reached. It is costly but you get what you pay for. I agree too that seo – if it works could be the winner in the long run.
Yes, SEO is stands for Search Engine Optimization or Search Engine Optimizer.
SEO is the technique of increasing the visibility of a web-site on natural (unpaid or organic) search engine result pages (SERPs).
Great Post,
SEO has become an important marketing strategy for most of business owner present around the world.
One can use strategies like onsite and offsite to rank higher in search results.
I’d use all in one seo pack instead of yoast…I use that with XML sitemaps and it seems to perform better.
Very informative article thank you.
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Great post! I choose to use Yoast rather than any other SEO plugin for all my client sites. It really is the easiest one to use with lots of functionality. I particularly like that you can choose to no follow or no-index a page very easily, and of course being able to adjust the meta content is imperative to good SEO.
Search Engine Optimization is a methodology of strategies and techniques used to increase the amount of visitors to a website by getting a high ranking in search results. Getting your website on the first page of a search engine is the ultimate goal.
Great read, many thanks!
Great article, love using Yoast it makes Search Engine Optimisation so much easier for my clients. Good SEO plugin for those thinking about which one to use.
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Hey Hasan! We’re so glad you enjoyed it!
Yoast is AWESOME! We use it virtually all our WordPress sites, from an SEO stand point however, the suggestions and color of the lights that it gives aren’t always the most effective. We use the plugin for all it’s capabilities, but use our own judgement and experience on the “amount” of SEO we put into sites.
Great Read. Thanks.
A great piece James. We alternate between Yoast and AllinOne SEO plugins. Each has it’s pros and cons. We find Yoast having a lot of features but AllinOne is cleaner. So depending on the project on hand, we’ll select the best for it’s job.
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Hi James,
There are lots of opinions on this one but which, based on your experience, do you think works better — All in One SEO or Yoast?
And do you have any suggestions as to the best settings?
Thanks.
Regards,
Ron James
I have a blog but I really don’t know what Yoast can do. But thanks to you for explaining it here in this article, I understand it very well. Now I know what Yoast plugin can do to my blog and how it can help my content. Thank you!
Hello! I was amazed when I saw yoast. But before I use it I check first their website so I can view the tutorials. This is very helpful to monitor your sites and to SEO beginners like me.
Great side bonus to the Yoast plugin is that the metadata tags it helps you setup create your share cards for social media. Nice critical bonus there.
Really enjoyed your article. Well researched and great content shared. I too love Yoast SEO. It’s a very useful plugin that I use on all my and clients’ websites. I would also suggest that a strong social presence be developed along with the ranking of your website. Social presence is a very powerful tool and it’s amazing what a little social sharing does to ones’ ranking.
Keep up the good work. Looking forward to reading more of your articles.
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Great Post, Excellent Read! Love the Plugin….
A very comprehensive article which provides not only an overview of SEO but also identifies some great tools and resources that can be of great value to a SEO practitioner. I also really appreciate that it highlights the extreme value of great organic content as without it many SEO activities will not bear fruit.
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Yoast SEO is a good easy to use plugin. I mainly use it for adding Meta Data to all my pages and posts, and also to change the permalinks on my WordPress site.
You can also use it to no-index and no-follow, but that is a whole other topic in itself.
Yoast seo I love because it just helps so much with the metadata and the serp results. well written article. Thank you.
The bulk URL organizer is a great page to be able to backcheck all of your work. One look through that page and you can quickly tell there are titles and meta data you need to update. Having to click through to edit every page would take forever on large sites.
We use Yoast SEO on our company website. Always have loved the plugins that he puts out..
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I have been a great fan of Yoast SEO plugin for all of my wordpress blogs. I rank relatively easy for the low competitive keywords with proper on page search engine optimization.
Great article.
Yoast is the best choice for me and the websites that I host. Much easier than anything else.
Thanks
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Yoast is definitely my #1 still. Love how we can tell google what to show on the SERP.
Great article.
Yoast is a definite must for anyone that wants their website to rank. Thanks for posting.
I’m a big fan of Yoast as well but I have heard from several people that they are having issues with the site map feature. I think this doesn’t happen all the time but I do hear it quite a bit. Maybe user error…..
These tools are helpful for search engine optimization. Yeast and All-in-One both plugins are good for seo. Thank you for share.
Thanks for the article already use Yoast very powerful plugin is setup correctly. But always remember it is not going to do the whole task of getting your rankings up there what you do with links and content (as said above) is also important. Maybe one point I would like to make is google likes google.
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Hands down Yoast is my go to for SEO work. I’ve experimented with a lot including All in One SEO, but I have to say Yoast is Great. Very simply to use, and in fact, I refuse to take anybody aboard that doesn’t have a wordpress theme. Great read my friend, thank you for contributing!
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