WordPress Hosting Tutorial :: SEO With WordPress

Posted by Mark Thomas on in Hosting Tutorial

WHAT IS SEO?

SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” It is the process of getting traffic from the “free,” “organic,” “editorial” or “natural” search results on search engines.
All major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo have primary search results, where web pages and other content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users. Payment isn’t involved, as it is with paid search ads.

WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin is one option but All in one SEO, SEO Yoast plugin bloggers are widely used to improve its SEO wordpress. Lots of features available in a single plugin.

WHY DO YOU NEED THIS PLUGIN?

WordPress itself does not have a built-in feature that allows admins to micromanage the SEO aspect of a website in a convenient manner, such as page titles, meta tags, sitemaps, etc. Fortunately by using this plugin, you can solve the problem easily.

HOW DO YOU INSTALL IT?

1. Dashboard> Plugins> Add New

2. Type WordPress SEO by Yoast in the search field

3. Install and Activate

4. For Settings, please follow as the screenshots and explanations below.

Below is a list of SEO Yoast menu.

Menu Yoast wordpress

Go to the menu SEO> Titles & Metas> General. Make Settings like screnshot below.

settings seo title metas yoast wordpress

The following settings are very important, please go to SEO> Titles & Metas> Home. Fill in a short title with 6-9 words, with a maximum of 70 characters. Search engines and display a maximum of 156 characters from the Meta Description tag, so keep the description brief and adapted to humans, not robots.

Go to the menu SEO> Titles & Metas> Post Type, Make settings as shown below.

yoast post title

Enter the ID facebook, twitter and Google plus Dashboard menu> SEO> Social.

settings seocial yoast wordpress

In the Dashboard> SEO> XML Sitemaps, you can disable automatic XML Sitemaps, this is very important as well, because you can create xml from this menu untun entered into various webmastertool. Here are the settings:

xml sitemap Yoast wordpress

Setting the latter is the Dashboard> SEO> Permalinks. Here are the settings that I suggest to you:

Permalinks Yoast wordpress

Here’s how settings SEO plugin by Yoast, hopefully your blog or website into a page one of google.

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