SEO ROADMAP
SEO best practices with the WordPress
You can apply the following SEO best practices with WordPress very easily.
1. Add headline with H1 Tag
You can easily edit the H1 with the WordPress editor. Most WP themes automatically add the H1 tag to your blog post title
2. Add subheading with H2
See whether you can include your target keyword in one of these subheadings. Do not try to do the keyword stuffing. All your subheadings should look natural to your readers.
If your subheading does not look normal with the target keyword you can ignore that and leave the subheading with meaning full text to your audience
3. Title and meta description
This is called the meta title and this is very important to get a good ranking. You can use the default editor to add the title for your post or page.
Good title is one of the key elements to appear your article in Google search results page.
Having a good meta description for your post can leads to get higher CTR. Google also recommends writing good meta descriptions to your post. Sometimes Google may overwrite your meta description.
When you install WP SEO plug-in you can edit this meta description easily
4. Keyword Frequency
How many times are you going to use the keyword or phrase in your post?
You can use it 3 times or 5 times depending on the length of your article. Google does not like that you use the same keyword several times in your post. But when you apply this method to your post you can experience the end result
5. Use External (Outbound) Links
External links from your post will help google to decide the content of your page. You see this experiment to see the validity of using the external links to quality post
You can simply add links with your WordPress Editor by selecting and right click on the text.
6. Use SEO friendly URL
We have in depth guide to create SEO friendly URL with WordPress
- Mata Tags
- H1, H2, etc
- Image Optimization
- Keyword Optimization
- You can use the target keyword in the first 100 words of your article. (This is an old school method but it still works)
WordPress SEO fundamental
- Search engine positioning
- SEO vs SEM
- Search Engine Ranking Factors
- SEO Metrics (How to measure the success)
Technical SEO with WordPress
- The Architecture of a WordPress Website
- Sitemap
- Index and Crawl Budget
- Page Speed and SEO
- Robots.txt
- Duplicate Content
On Page SEO
- SEO content writing for WordPress business
- Title and Meta Descriptions for WordPress Posts and Pages
- Create SEO Friendly URL with WordPress
- Image SEO with WordPress
- Internal Linking
- Topic Clusters and Semantic SEO
- Rich Snippets
- LSI keywords
- Featured Snippets
Content and WordPress SEO
- Content Marketing Strategy
- Length of the content
SEO Audit
Woocomerce SEO
Structured Data
Measuring and Tracking SEO success
SEO Glossary
1 Create and update your sitemap
WordPress SEO Ranking Factors
Factors(things) you can control with WordPress
Keyword in introduction
Keyword density
You have to distribute the keyword around the article and you need to use the synonyms. Do not do keyword stuffs but identity the intent of the user and create valuable content for the user.
11. Keyword in Title Tag:
Place your primary keyword on the title of the page or post. Although this is not a ranking factor it is a good SEO signal. You can edit the title with Yoast, Rank Math and AIOSEO.
12. Include the keyword beginning of the Title
Yoast and Rank Math plugins highlight and give some score for title and meta descriptions.
13. Keyword in Description Tag
You can include your primary keyword in meta description and try to include it at the beginning.
Google announced in September of 2009 that neither meta descriptions nor meta keywords factor into Google’s ranking algorithms for web search.
Meta descriptions can however impact a page’s CTR (click-through-rate) on Google SERP.
Include your best copy for the description
Keyword in URL
How many internal links?
How many outbound links?