{"id":2612,"date":"2016-09-13T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T09:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2023-11-13T13:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:39:56","slug":"get-started-with-wordpress-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/get-started-with-wordpress-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Started With WordPress SEO – 14 Things to Do Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why get started with WordPress SEO? Well, we all love WordPress – It is the best and easiest CMS, and it is also the most SEO-friendly. However, it is a huge “fail” if you think that all you have to do is publish some blog posts, and SEO will just magically happen. Tinker Bell is not sprinkling fairy dust. \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Using WordPress by itself will give you some optimization, but it’s not enough. You need to make it much better and more powerful. Hence, here are 14 ways to do that:<\/p>\n\n\n

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How to get started with WordPress SEO:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Use custom URLs \/ permalinks<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Get Yoast SEO<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Add captions and \u201calt\u201d tags to images<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Optimize images<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Those snippets<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Use breadcrumbs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Security \u2013 protect yourself from hackers and malware<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Add a cache plugin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Get rid of spam comments<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Engage your users<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Add social sharing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Back it all up<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Clean up your database<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Tell search engines where they can go<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n\t\t
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    \n\t\t \t\tGet started with #WordPress #SEO \ud83d\ude80\ud83c\udfac<\/a>\n\t\t \t<\/div>\n\t\t \t
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    1. Use custom URLs \/ permalinks<\/h2>\n\n\n
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    Default URLs in WordPress are filled with characters and numbers that have nothing to do with your content. (e.g., YOURSITE.com\/?p=143<\/code>). What you really want are your post titles in those URLs, because they contain the SEO keywords that search engines seek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is an easy fix. \u2692\ufe0f We have a separate guide on that. It only takes a minute, by the way.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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    2. Get Yoast SEO<\/h2>\n\n\n
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