To set your wordpress SEO strategy, the base is essential to be clear some previous points to qualify to success in organic positioning web:
- Produce great content and is the defendant by your customers.
- Do not try to reach the finish earlier than normal (about keyword optimization or links for example).
- Support your strategy with a good spread in social networks.
SEO for wordpress 10 tips to fix your strategy
If you use wordpress, as I do, I note these tips to get many more visits from SEO:
- Install WordPress SEO by Yoast pluggin: There are others that work well, but this for me is the best. Very simple to install and use.
- Set your strategy general keywords: Before you start writing anything, you need to know which keywords relevant to your business are apart from general with many searches trying to find words “long tail” valid, more specific and less costly to positional.
- Sets a keyword for each item: Each item must have a target for wordpress SEO. So you can optimize the text well and fill the “tab” of SEO pluggin where you ask for the main keyword.
- Links the blog content with your profile google +: This is called the rel = author if you link to your personal profile, or rel = publisher if you do it with a business page on google +.This will allow you to improve the results in google, which will help attract more clicks.
- Organic traffic check in webmaster tools: In this free google tool, especially if you’re not with paid campaign in google, you will see almost all traffic from your web / blog that comes from search engines. So you’re seeing the success or not of objectives. I mention because google analytics you’ll find the “not provided” (google protects users who are logged into gmail).
- Pluggin broken links: You can try “broken link cheker” will help you detect if there is any broken link. More than anything that google do not like to.
- Make checks with the speed of your site / blog: With the free tool google “Google pagespeed” it makes quickly with recommendations mainly related programming to increase the speed of page analysis. You separate the web version and mobile version.
- SEO for images: the most important thing here is the “alt” attribute. All images from your web / blog must have it. The description also but not as important. Besides those positions, traffic images should not be despising.
- Social Pluggin: So you need in your wordpress to give facilities to “shares” of content and mentions. You can try “sharealholic”. There are many, one looks to have a sidebar that follow the user when browsing down to your page.
- Use internal links: When you already have some written articles is very healthy for your wordpress SEO connecting the go. Besides, so you earn some extra and page views that can help generate “leads”, sales, subscriptions…
Overall, Google likes WordPress, the code is very clean and everything works with pluggins therefore should not be touching the source code all the time. Make it to achieve your goals for wordpress SEO.
Do you consider these tips useful? You know any other practical advice I have forgotten?
