Our blogs first topic is WordPress SEO. And say Hello guys, I am MOHD AIYUB KHAN from India. Saying welcome to you my new blog I hope you like the style and layout of my blog. I am a Developer and a blogger as a hobbyist, I was unaware of these but the time can change everything. In short, I am running more than 3 blog at a good reward. And I am here in this blog to guide my newbie blogger friends. You will get every kind of information about technology, blogging, SEO etc in my this blog. Whenever what you want just comment on blog or email me, I will do my best to help you in a best way. Anyhow lets move to our today’s main topic.
In this post I will share my WordPress SEO experience with your. How I rank my old blogs and how you can optimize your new blog for future. No doubt, that the WordPress is the best blogging plat form you can even do bogging and can also make a site with it. But first you have to do a proper SEO for it, if you will not do so then it will be all in vain and you will not get your desired traffic.
To do WordPress SEO you should know all about it. Don’t worry I will tell you in this case. To get a higher search engine traffic is every blogger’s desire. It is not so Difficult you just have to concentrate on this WordPress SEO guide. I hope this will help you.
Beginners WordPress SEO, Optimize Your WP Blog
It is very easy to make a WordPress blog, but it is very hard to survive with it. You will not get good traffic without WordPress SEO. It is very essential for you to do your blog’s starter WordPress SEO. Lets discuss the facts and steps in beginner WordPress SEO Guide.
1. Theme Matters !
Yes! Theme matters a lot in your WordPress SEO, you should use a responsive, good looking and SEO friendly theme. This will be good because the responsive theme will make your site acceptable in all display modes, good looking theme will attract your visitors and make them to open more pages and SEO friendly theme deals very friendly with the search engines and easily allow them to crawl your site faster.
I am using the Sahifa theme, if you want to get this one you can contact me and I will give you free of cost.
2. You Blog’s Title w.r.t WordPress SEO
It will be better if you will target keywords in your blog’s title. Because the title and domain is the first thing that is crawled by search engines. It must be SEO optimized, this will be helpful. This is the first step in your blog WordPress SEO. And make sure that the title relates to your blog niche.
3. Keyword In WordPress SEO
Keyword are the words that you target and use up to a quantity in your posts. These are those words that peoples use to search on search engines. You must make a best keyword research to get good traffic and use them in heading meta description or title etc. For a best WordPress SEO it is important to focus on a single keyword, if you will use many keywords in your post then search engine will get confused and your blog will get bad impression.
4. WordPress SEO Plugin By Yoast
WordPress blog is not SEO friendly at all by default. It requires a lot of changes, you must do those before writing your first post. This most being used WordPress SEO plugin is SEO Yoast, you can find it simply searching on Google or simple by adding new plugin to your blog.
WordPress SEO plugin allow you to add the meta tags in your blog very easy and can add keyword for WordPress SEO. You can also add the meta description for every post individually. And this also creates a xml site map for your blog which you can submit in search engines.
Features Of WordPress SEO Plugin.
- Post titles and meta descriptions
- Robots Meta configuration
- Canonical
- Breadcrumbs
- Permalink clean up
- XML Sitemaps
- RSS enhancements
- Edit your robots.txt and .htaccess
- Clean up head section
5. Permalinks (WordPress SEO)
Permalinks are the links of your blog’s pages, posts and archives. In other words these are the simple links of your blog. By default the permalinks are very rude and bad, but don’t worry I am here to tell you about WordPress SEO. So, to change your permalinks from default to SEO friendly, go to Setting>>Permalinks and change from default to post name. See the image below.
Also Read : Complete Guide To SEO Link Building – Get To Search Ranking
Change Permalinks In WordPress – WordPress SEO
I hope you understand completely about changing the permalinks
6. Verify With Webmasters Tools (WordPress SEO)
Webmasters tools are the tools by search engines by which they crawl your site and index your pages. After setting up your blog you must submit mainly your blog to Google Webmasters and Bing Webmasters tools. This is very important in WordPress SEO and for your blog traffic. You just need to go to their site and submit your site URL and later they will ask you to verify your site by adding meta tag or by other method and after this you have to submit your blog’s sitemap. I hope now you will be able to setup your blog with respect to WordPress SEO.
