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1. OPTIMIZE YOUR
WORDPRESS FOR SEO
Tips & Tricks to Optimize your WordPress website for SEO
By
Authorselvi
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Web Development company.

2. INTRODUCTION
WordPress is a powerful CMS (Content
Management System) that powers millions of
websites & blogs around the world.
Your site has to stand-out in all aspects. SEO
comes into play here, using SEO you can drive
more traffic to your site from web search engines
such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

3. HOW TO OPTIMIZE YOUR
WORDPRESS FOR SEO

4. 1. CONTENT
Make high quality and unique content. Your page should
have keywords that highlights the purpose of the
page. Write content for users not search engines.
Make your post & pages easily indexable.
Use keywords for your images, instead of using numbers
ex: DSC93948.jpg.
Use natural backlinks. Try exchanging or linking
backlinks with relevant websites related to your topics or
interlinking within your website.

5. 1. CONTENT
Try optimizing your Title tag, Meta tags. Use relevant
keywords.
Title tag -> 50-60 characters
Meta tag -> 160 characters
As of now dated in the year 2016, The criteria is:
Title tag -> 71 Characters
Meta tag -> 160 characters

6. 2. CREATE AN XML SITE MAP
Try activating WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin which
will create XML sitemap. But you have to turn on XML
sitemap settings. Goto SEO » XML Sitemaps and
check the box to enable XML sitemap.
Try using other plugins like Google XML Sitemaps &
XML Sitemaps
Check this links too for other useful tools: Website
Optimizer and Webmaster Central.
Add the sitemap to Google & Bing.

7. 3. ADD BREADCRUMBS
Use breadcrumbs for your site which makes navigation
easier.
Add relevant links to your pages & post.

8. 4. WORDPRESS PLUGINS & TOOLS FOR SEO
• WordPress SEO by Yoast
•SEMrush
•Google Keyword Planner
•KeywordTool.io
•Open Site Explorer
•Broken Link Checker

9. HOPE THIS HELPED YOU TO
OPTIMIZE YOUR WORDPRESS FOR
SEO
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