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Following our ongoing successful cooperation with the SEO PowerSuite and Semrush teams, today we’ll discuss search engine optimization (SEO) marketing. Our ultimate goal is to develop business strategies for attracting leads, generating sales, and more.
- SEO marketing is the process of improving your website’s ranking in search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines. Increasing your site’s organic ranking helps drive valuable organic traffic to your website.
- On this page, the focus is on WordPress SEO, as per request of our followers.
Contents:
- Why WordPress SEO?
- Content
- Prerequisites
- Site Visibility
- Permalinks
- Headings
- Internal Links
- Tags/Categories
- Categories
- Tags
- Alt Text
- Analytics
- FAQ/Quiz
- Discussion
- Explore More
- Infographics
Why WordPress SEO?
Fast, free and customizable for every need, WordPress (WP) remains the best website builder for SEO marketing:
- SEO is a vital part of raising awareness about your brand – and it is also most likely the most economical marketing solution you’ll find, thanks to WordPress hosting.
- WordPress accommodates native SEO features that are built into its source code and extended by a multitude of free and premium SEO plugins and themes.
- WordPress is written largely in PHP, but it also incorporates proper HTML markup, so that WordPress sites can be easily understood and crawled by a variety of search engines.
- Most free and premium WordPress theme options contain proper HTML markup to accommodate search engine bots.
- A number of WordPress SEO plugins can help site runners take advantage of all SEO opportunities.
- WordPress was originally designed as a blogging platform with the goal of helping everyone publish their message online, and this is reflected in the easy to use SEO tools for optimizing search engine visibility.
Content
- Set WP site visibility to increase SEO.
- Change permalinks or slugs on a blog.
- Change permalinks or slugs on a web page.
- Insert blog headings to blog using keywords.
- Format an SEO friendly blog heading.
- Add internal links to a blog.
- Add categories and tags to a blog.
- Add Alt Text to images.
- Navigate WP website analytics.
Prerequisites
- Create a WP account
- Load your website editor
- Learn how to build a website using WP
WP Home dashboard:
Site Visibility
Go to WP Admin
Then go to Comments -> Settings -> Reading -> Check these buttons
Go back to Settings and save changes.
Permalinks
Look at the permalinks on your WP website logs and pages.
Tip: URL contains words that are easy to read by search engines.
Load your website from the WP account
Change your permalinks
- Make URL slug shorter
- Separate words with hyphens
- The slug has to be unique
Example:
The same considerations apply to the page URL. Go back to home dashboard and go to Pages. Then go to Sites -> Pages and update the URL.
Press Update when you are done.
Headings
Create a new post. Copy/paste a text from the Word document in your folder. We should see the keywords highlighted. Let’s format the blocks by selecting Heading
Internal Links
Go back to the home dashboard and select the post
Go back to the text highlighted and Paste your URL.
Save the Draft.
Tags/Categories
Go back to dashboard and click Tags and Categories.
Categories
Create the Parent Categories and all relevant sub-Categoris.
Tags
Tags – submit all relevant keywords with comments.
Let’s add another image.
Add new Tag and click relevant Categories.
Alt Text
Alt text = description of an image. Enhance user experience by typing a nice text. And then click Done.
Analytics
Go Home -> Website Tools (Marketing) and Stats (Analytics).
You see your analytics for your website
User location
Average visits per page
Search terms
FAQ/Quiz
Discussion
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