WordPress SEO Tips & Tricks

What is WordPress SEO?

In layman terms, WordPress SEO is Optimizing your WordPress blog to bring more traffic to your blog.
It can be off page as well as on page. In this article, we will be focusing on WordPress SEO tips for on page optimization.

Basic WordPress SEO Tips & Tricks:

1. Set your permalinks right.
Wordpress given you the freedom to choose your custom URL of each post via permalinks.

Go to :Admin panel–>Settings–>Permainks

Types of Permalinks
Day and name
Month and name
Numeric
Post name
Custom Structure

I prefer “post name” as the permalink. It allows us to set the URL of the post same as the title of our post.

Example : https://vibethemes.wpengine.com/essential-wordpress-security-tips/
This link will take you to the post essential WordPress security plugins.

2. Titles
Set your title right.Google reads first few characters of the title say about 60-70.
So, be precise and focused, try to write your important keywords in the post in the first 60-70 characters. The same applies for all the titles.

a. Blog Title
b. Page Title
c. Post Title

3. Image Optimization
Do write alt tags while inserting an image in the blog post.
Google does not read images.It reads all the text on the page. So, writing an alt tag help Google identify the image and your keyword (alt tag for the image) gets indexed.

4. Use WordPress SEO plugins
VibeSEO Plugin

This plugin enables you to review your post like has the main keyword inserted, has alt tags been mentioned,h1 tag, h2 tag and what is the density of the keyword in the post and many more..

This helps you to mention important points in your blog post which you might forget while i was in the middle of writing this post.This panel comes just below your writing area of the post.

See the image below, this screenshot was taken by me when i have written this post.

So you can easily see which are the points i have missed and which i were taken care off.
Want to try this free plugin, check this link out : Free WordPress SEO plugin :VibeSEO pack

5. Link to related posts.
Have you seen how i have given the internal links above. Some of you might have clicked it..This is another way to keep your readers interested in your blog and increase the time of their visit.

6. Aim for speed
Use you use plugins such as wp-super cache plugin which helps to speed up your blog.

or else you can use Fast themes such as vCandy which we launched two weeks ago.
Page speed score :94
Yahoo YSlow score :92
Page load time :0.68 seconds
Read more about VCandy

Click here to see the demo and features of the theme :vCandy

7. Do not clutter your blog with Ads
Some of the blogs, sites are so full of ads that you can’t even see the blog post.That’s really frustrating for readers. Personally, i close the blog window as soon as i see the blog cluttered with ads. I know most of the readers immediate reaction is closing the blog window.So, try placing your ads in such a manner that they don’t frustrate your readers.

These were some of the WordPress Tips which i thought would be helpful for beginners as to what they should keep in mind before starting the blog and also how to manage to make it more reader friendly and off course search engine friendly.