WordPress Training » Module 6
In this module we cover essential SEO. This is a key section to your blog if you want to take advantage of Google’s free organic traffic. Even if you are familiar with WordPress you should go through this module. There is important information that you may not have been aware of.
This video is an introduction to SEO – What it is and why you want to do it.
This video covers keywords and basic essential keyword research.
This video explains what LSI is and why you need to inject these words and phrases into your posts.
This video is an introduction to the highly recommended Yoast SEO Plugin for WordPress.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We cover the display and user role settings and what these settings are all about.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We cover the configuration wizard and what you need to do to make your site set up ready to perform on Google and the other search engines.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast General Settings tab and specifically, the dashboard and what the notifications are all about.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast General Settings tab and specifically, what the features tab is all about.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast General Settings tab and specifically, what the Webmaster Tools tab is all about.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast Search Appearance Settings tab and specifically, what the “General” tab is all about.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast Search Appearance Settings tab and specifically, what the “Content Types” tab is all about.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast Search Appearance Settings tab and specifically, what the “Media” tab is all about.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast Search Appearance Settings tab and specifically, what the “Taxonomies” tab is all about.
We cover the setting of categories and tags in this video, but we strongly advise that you set the Tags and Categories tabs to NO. You don’t want the search engines indexing these because they will be seen as duplicate content which is not good for your site.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast Search Appearance Settings tab and specifically, what the “Archives” tab is all about.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast Search Appearance Settings tab and specifically, what the “Breadcrumbs” tab is all about.
Search Appearance > Breadcrumbs Reference (TXT)
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look at the Yoast Search Appearance Settings tab and specifically, what the “RSS” tab is all about. This is a really cool feature that is set up by Yoast by default.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look specifically at the Yoast “Search Console” Settings tab. Be sure to follow this video closely. It links in directly with the Google Search Console.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look specifically at the Yoast “Social” Settings tab.
In this video, we continue to look at the Yoast SEO plugin. We look specifically at the Yoast “Tools” Settings tab.
In this video, we look at setting up an HTML Sitemap page. This is different to an XML sitemap that you need for your webmaster tools set up for your site. You should set this up on your site and set the 404 settings to redirect any future 404 pages / posts to the HTML Sitemap page.
In this video, we look at how you connect your XML Sitemap to your Google Webmaster Tools Search Console.
In this video, we look at how you set up the Meta content for each post. We recommend that you follow close attention to the setup of that setting “Should search engines follow links on this post”. If you have any affiliate links on your post, you should set the setting “OFF” so that the search engines DON’T follow the link.