SEO Ranking Tips
We have spent some time discussing SEO ranking tips for on-page and off-page SEO. Get the basic SEO correct and you can concentrate on Content, Content, Content and Links, Links, Links.
WordPress plugins can really do ALL the basic SEO for you. So choose them carefully – only use those that you REALLY need. Too many and your blog will slow down dramatically. Google will penalise slow sites.
Plugin Heaven: SEO Ranking Tips
You will be in plugin heaven if you choose the following:
1) Yoasts SEO WordPress Plugin – this takes care of your basic SEO (you DO need to think carefully about the settings but Yoast provides tremendous support), Sitemap, and on-page SEO (more of this later)
2) SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress SEO plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for SEO purposes.
3) Super-Cache Plugin – This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. This makes your blog super fast.
Easy On Page SEO Ranking Tips
Yoasts SEO WordPress Plugin has a marvellous tool provided by Linkdex. It basically analyses your post and tells you what to correct. We are going to use it now (up to this point) to tell how the post is SEO optimised for SEO Ranking Tips.
Here are the results:
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No meta description has been specified, search engines will display copy from the page instead. |
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There are 245 words contained in the body copy, this is below the 300 word recommended minimum. Add more useful content on this topic for readers. |
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No images appear in this page, consider adding some as appropriate. |
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The page title contains keyword / phrase, but it does not appear at the beginning; try and move it to the beginning. |
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The copy scores 69.4 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered OK to read. |
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Keyword / keyphrase appears in 3 (out of 3) headings in the copy. While not a major ranking factor, this is beneficial. |
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The keyword / phrase appears in the URL for this page. |
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The keyword appears in the first paragraph of the copy. |
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The keyword density is 2.15%, which is great, the keyword was found 5 times. |
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The page title is more than 40 characters and less than the recommended 70 character limit. |
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This page has 3 outbound link(s). |
We will change those now! The page has been updated since to make the recommended changes for SEO Ranking Tips.
