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Search Engine Optimization

How to Correctly Configure Your Yoast XML Sitemap and Advanced Settings in WordPress

WordPress is an SEO-friendly CMS for building websites and blogs, but it doesn’t include enough default features to help you rank at the top of search results. To truly establish a solid SEO presence online,…

Search Engine Optimization

7 Places to Include SEO Keywords on Your Website

Earning high search rankings for your website requires the use of search engine optimization, and in particular, SEO keywords. Also known as target keywords, these words and phrases are the words you want to rank…

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Search Engine Optimization

The Extra ‘E’ in E-E-A-T

Google wants the people creating content to have experience in the area they’re writing about, and it updated the E-E-A-T formula to reflect this new standard. Google issued one of its most critical updates for…

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Search Engine Optimization

SEO with WordPress: Why It Matters

It doesn’t matter how great your website is if customers can’t find it. That’s why SEO with WordPress is critical.  You wouldn’t open a restaurant or retail store without putting signs out front to let…

Search Engine Optimization

How to Use Keyword Mapping to Improve WordPress SEO

It’s hard to believe, but in 2022 about 7.5 million blogs were published each day and more than 455 million active websites use WordPress. That’s a lot of websites and a lot of content! As…

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Search Engine Optimization

Benefits of Using Schema for WordPress

If you’ve ever asked, “What am I looking at?” when wandering through an art museum, you know that sometimes it helps to have additional context. Humans aren’t the only ones who need a little extra…

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Search Engine Optimization

Using Breadcrumb Schema to Optimize Your Website

Breadcrumbs aren’t always as helpful as you want them to be – just ask Hansel and Gretel about the birds. However, when it comes to your website, you’ll want to use breadcrumb schema to get…

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Search Engine Optimization

20 Common WordPress SEO Mistakes to Avoid

The importance of search engine optimization (SEO) for any business, big or small, needs no introduction. And when it comes to SEO, WordPress is an excellent CMS choice out of the box. Not to mention…

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Search Engine Optimization

10 SEO Plugins and Tools for WordPress

Many WordPress website owners often wonder which SEO (search engine optimization) plugins and tools they should be using to help maximize organic traffic to their site. That’s because search engines like Google are still the…

Search Engine Optimization

7 Mistakes to Avoid When Using Canonical Tags on Your WordPress Website

As a professional WordPress designer or developer, you need to be thinking ahead as you build sites for your clients. And, one of those things you need to keep an eye out for is duplicate…

Search Engine Optimization

JavaScript Search Engine Optimization (SEO): How to Optimize JavaScript Pages for Search Engines

Hypertext markup language (HTML) isn’t the only type of code used to develop websites. While all websites contain HTML, many of them contain JavaScript as well. A report by W3Techs found that at least some…

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Search Engine Optimization

How to Create Custom Meta Tags for a WordPress Website

Are you trying to create custom meta tags for a WordPress website? Custom meta tags are an essential part of an effective search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. Upon discovering them, search engines will use them…

Search Engine Optimization

Website Hosting and SEO: What’s the Connection (and Why It’s Important)

If you want to generate the most traffic possible to your website, you’ll need to prioritize your company’s SEO efforts. Although many entrepreneurs tend to stop here, you should also take your website hosting into consideration….

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Search Engine Optimization

10 WooCommerce SEO Tips to Boost Your Rankings

When you’re trying to drive more traffic to your WooCommerce store you’re going to have a variety of different routes to pursue. You have paid traffic, growing your social media channels, and more. But, one…