WordPress is our favorite content management system for SEO. It’s powerful, flexible, and easy to use. WordPress SEO goes beyond simply installing a plugin. You’ll need to configure it and more. Our Field Guide to SEO includes an entire section devoted to WordPress SEO. We also offer an SEO checklist, tools, and live monthly coaching to help you get your WordPress website found on Google. Learn more about guided SEO.
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Variables in the Yoast SEO plugin give you the power to autogenerate page titles and meta descriptions for your entire website based on a set of rules defined by content type. This is one of the many powerful tools in...
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What is a robots.txt file? Before search engines crawl your website, they check the robots.txt file for instructions. Robots.txt is a very powerful file, so tread lightly when updating it. Double-check that you are indeed communicating your intended goals. You...
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By default, a WordPress website includes a robots.txt directive that prevents search engines from crawling and indexing it. This is helpful while the website is in development, as it prevents the development website from appearing in the search engine results....
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Title tags and meta description tags, a.k.a. page titles and meta descriptions, are the little things that make it possible for your website’s pages to appear in search results the way you want them to. Not only that, but search...
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WordPress is SEO friendly from the outset and is our favorite content management system. Leverage the full power of WordPress by following these tips. Let’s keep this actionable. Dozens of tips can be overwhelming — which do you follow first?...
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Simply put, Yoast has become the front-running multifunctional SEO plugin for WordPress users. The premium version provides even more value. Learn why. What is Yoast Premium? Yoast Premium is the paid version of the popular Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress...
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One of the many great things about the Yoast SEO plugin is that it automatically generates an XML sitemap for your website. This file acts as a resume for your website. It tells the search engines how to crawl and...
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WordPress is extremely SEO-friendly from the outset. It only gets better when you install an SEO-friendly theme and start using the awesome suite of SEO plugins WordPress offers. If you’re thinking about building a website (or redesigning an existing site),...
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Search engine optimization (SEO) really is a broad topic best considered in terms of the various pillars that make it up: On-page SEO, which is concerned with keywords/content. Off-page SEO, which is concerned with backlinks and building authority. Technical structure,...
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Regardless of whether you’re a web developer or the client tasked with updating the content on a website, the best WordPress page builders can assist both parties. The best WordPress page builders make it easy to quickly build beautiful pages,...
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As early as 2014, Google announced that they would be making HTTPS a ranking signal. Then, in 2016, with an interest in protecting personal information-such as credit card details and passwords-Google announced that they would require websites to have an...
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Cornerstone content is a term that has been popping up in content marketing and SEO circles a lot recently but the term is not new. Don’t believe me? Copyblogger Brian Clark wrote a post about it 11 years ago! Like...
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