Monday, May 12, 2014

How To Optimize Your Wordpress Site & Increase Traffic

By Meagan Smith


If you are the owner of a low traffic Wordpress blog and you are looking to increase both your traffic and sales then pay close attention. In this article we are going to talk about some of the key plugins and things your blog should have if you want to be successful and stand out from the competition.

The first thing you should do is make sure you have all the necessary plugins installed. Of course the plugins your blog or website will need depend entirely on what type of site you are building. However there are some basic SEO plugins we recommend you install on every new Wordpress site. The first one is All-in-one seo plugin which is very helpful when it comes to optimizing meta data for both your pages and individual blog posts.

Another plugin we strongly recommend is the Google sitemap plugin. You can find it for free by searching in the Wordpress plugin directory. This plugin will help you get your content get index faster on Google. Sitemaps are great because it makes your pages and content easier to find for search engine spiders.

Keep in mind that your only focus should not only be SEO optimization. Social media is huge right now and with sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest getting millions of visitors every month is fair to say you want to make it easy for your visitors to share your content. You can find a ton of free social media plugins which will encourage your visitors to share your content everywhere.

You know have more knowledge about using WordPress. Start using these tips right away. Your site will gain traffic. It will also be easier for your visitors to navigate and your chances of creating an authority site will be a lot bigger. We hope that these suggestions will help your site tremendously.




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