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Simple WordPress SEO Tips to Get Ranked

February 8, 2014 Posted by Dev SEO, Tips 6 Comments

SEO for WordPressOne of the biggest buzz words I hear floating around today is SEO. It’s become so popular that it’s now a well paid career! I’m going to teach you 6 WordPress SEO tips that will get your website ranking in searches.

One-Click SEO

Ah, what a funny idea… If only getting ranked was as easy as pushing a button.

While some plug-ins will help your on-site SEO, there’s a method to writing search engine friendly content.

In this post, you will learn:

  • How to Write Optimized Titles, Metas and URLs
  • How to Correctly Structure Your Permalinks
  • How to Use Images to Boost Organic Rankings
  • One Writing Tip that Will Change How You Think About Keywords
  • The Only WordPress SEO Plug-In You’ll Ever Need

 

How Images Can Multiply Traffic

Images are great to include for a number of reasons. Not only do they give your reader’s eyes a break from your text, images also help support your content. Using relevant images will help your reader make a better emotional connection to your content.

This post isn’t about how your readers feel, though. This post is about how your posts make search engines feel.

The 3 best SEO tips I can give you to maximize your traffic with your images are:

Use relevant, quality photos in your posts

Using images to support your content will help people understand your point and they are nice to look at.

Which website post would you rather read: The wall of text, or the post with  nice images and diagrams to help further explain the main ideas?

Check Out MorgueFile.com for free images to use in your posts.

Make the “ALT” text your keyword

The ALT text of an image is how that image gets found in search. By making your keyword your alt text, you can also be found for relevant image searches!

ALT Text for SEO

Post Your Photos on Pinterest

Recently Pinterest was deemed the fastest growing Social Media network. Growing even faster than FaceBook did, you can see where I’m going with this..

If you have all of these great photos that you’re adding to your posts and pages, shouldn’t you leverage them the best you can?

Post all of your posts images to Pinterest. Add a short blurb about the post that the picture links to and a #yourwebsitenamehere at the end of the blurb.

Each time your photo gets shared or “repinned” somebody else now has your website link on their page.

Learn How To Monetize Pinterest

Starting to see the importance of good images?

What’s a Permalink Anyway?

A “permalink” is nothing more than a long word for your links. Your website’s URLs are it’s “permalinks”.

Believe it or not these play a decent role in your websites SEO. While they won’t make or break you over the quality of your content, they will help.

This is is easiest of the tips for you to complete. Simply change your permalinks (Settings -> Permalinks in WordPress Sidebar) to /%postname%/ or click the 5th option down. Either one of these are preferred.

Permalinks for SEO

Using Keywords the Right Way

Keyword density. Many people say your posts should have a 2-4% of your post. This means that if you have a 450 word post and you have a 3 word keyword, your keyword will be said 6 times throughout your post.

This is not what you should be doing. Google does not like people who stuff their posts with a keyword.

Your EXACT keyword should only be in 4 places:

1. Post title

2. URL

3. First paragraph of copy

4. Meta description

The most important thing is quality. Make your point (keyword) known early in the first paragraph and make the rest of your post genuinely helpful content.

Don’t worry about using your keyword anymore after that. If your post is truly about your keyword, you’ll get found.

Just remember to write naturally. You can learn more about keyword research here.

Writing SEO Titles that Make People Click

Your title and your meta description should work together to spark curiosity in the reader.

One tip I’ve always liked is to make a list with your title’s. People and search engines both love lists.

Here are some examples of strong SEO titles:

“# Reasons Why You Should ____”

“# Ways to Improve Your  ____”

“Top # Reasons Why You _____”

“How to Get ____ in # Days!”

Get the idea? You always want to connect with your reader within the title. Tell them what they are going to gain in a short, powerful sentence.

I also like to add a “| sitename” at the end. If you noticed, this posts SEO title is “Simple WordPress SEO Tips to Get Ranked | EarnCashInCollege”.

Adding the name of your site at the end helps build recognition with people. If they see the name of your site over and over, eventually it will stick and they will click your links.

Please feel free to leave any good SEO title ideas in the comment field below. This is a place of sharing, let’s all help one another!

Meta Descriptions That Spark Curiosity

Your keyword should be in your meta description, but it doesn’t have to be at the very beginning. You want to either show authority or controversy with your meta descriptions.

For example, my guitar website meta’s often mention I’ve been teaching guitar professionally for several years. You want to be critical and unbiased in your posts and your metas should reflect this.

Some people like to be controversial to provoke with their metas. I’ve had some decent results from this, but it’s not really the style I like to go with.

The Only WordPress SEO Plug-In You’ll Need (And it’s FREE)

My favorite WordPress plug in for SEO is “Yoast SEO for WordPress”. It is a completely free plug-in so I recommend giving it a try.

This plug in will let you know if you are using a new keyword, the overall SEO strength of each of your pages and posts and more.

My favorite aspect of this plug in is how easy it makes optimizing your pages and posts.

Simply enter your SEO title, meta description & keyword in the fields Yoast adds to each post and it well guide you to editing for a fully optimized post.

Learn more about Yoast’s SEO plug-in here, or simply search for it on WordPress.

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Conclusion

I hope you found these WordPress SEO tips helpful. If I didn’t explain something well enough or if you just have a question or comment, please leave it in the comment box below. I’ll be sure to answer your question within 24 hours, usually much sooner.

Thanks for reading and good luck!

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About Dev

Dev has been working in the online marketing industry for close to a decade. He originally learned SEO through Wealthy Affiliate while in college to earn extra income instead of getting a part time job and started working in the PPC industry right after graduation. After about 6 months he began working as an SEO Specialist. He remained in this position for 3 years before becoming a Project Lead at the same company.

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    • Stephon Gittens
      · Reply

      February 9, 2014 at 12:29 AM

      Great stuff. This (SEO) is definitely one of my weak points. Thanks for this information!

      • Deven
        · Reply

        February 9, 2014 at 12:42 AM

        Hi Stephon, thanks for the positive feedback. I’m glad you liked the post. A lot of people think that SEO is some crazy science but it’s really just a handful of habits to get yourself into. I’m sure you’ll get it down! Definitely let me know if you have any questions along the way!

    • Ben
      · Reply

      February 9, 2014 at 1:31 AM

      That’s a great post! To the point — and very informative. It also helped to clear up a couple of things for me that I was uncertain of. Looking forward to more!

      • Deven
        · Reply

        February 9, 2014 at 4:04 AM

        Hi Ben, thank you for the kind words. I really appreciate the feedback! I’m glad you found the post informative. Thanks again for the comment. My next post on installing WordPress themes is scheduled for tomorrow at 1PM. Stay tuned! Thanks again for the comment!

    • Ben
      · Reply

      February 9, 2014 at 3:16 AM

      In my earlier comment, I forgot to add; I also have SEO by Yoast, and I think it’s odd that unless your keyword is in your post about 6 times, it displays a “yellow light” claiming it hasn’t been added enough times.

      • Deven
        · Reply

        February 9, 2014 at 4:07 AM

        Hi Ben,

        I agree, Yoast is a little finicky with KW density. Luckily that is just 1 of 12 factors they grade your pages SEO on. I typically have that light yellow in all of my posts. Reason being is most of my posts are 1000+ words. I only use my keyword 2-3 times throughout the whole thing.

        Since Yoast goes by the 2-4% density rule, the light will stay yellow unless these numbers are met.

        The good news is since this is only 1 grading factor, you can still get an overall “green” SEO light even with a low keyword density. So long as your copy is easy to read, your images alt tags have your KW in them and you have some outbound links you should be good to go!

        Thanks again for the comment!! I hope this helped.

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