Beginners Guide to WordPress SEO – Part 1

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Search Engine Optimization is one of the best ways to help your intended audience find your blog, discover your services, buy your products, and even learn from your content. SEO is certainly not rocket science, but there are fundamentals to be addressed to ensure your WordPress blog, website, or Ecommerce store are optimized so Google, Bing, and other search engines crawl to return valuable content providing the best possible answer to a search querie.
In this three-hour WordPress SEO workshop, we’ll focus on helping those new to SEO understand and apply tools and techniques to WordPress to assist search engines in identifying your site, blog, or Ecommerce store as either the best possible result returned in search.
We will review how WordPress natively handles SEO for posts, pages, taxonomies, custom post types and custom taxonomies, and media. well as how you can improve WordPress SEO by using the freely available, All in One SEO Pack plugin to optimize your site. For this workshop we will use All in One SEO Pack, not only because it’s a great plugin, but for its choice to provide free support in the WordPress.org forums.

1st Hour

In this segment, we will cover the following topics:
  • Why SEO? – Search engine optimization is a powerful method for reaching our intended audiences, as well as separating us from our competition. Google performs an average of 40,000 search queries a second, translating into over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. Search is the primary way we find information on the Internet. Being found in search builds trust and reputation with our readers, customers, and clients.
  • SEO Basics – Search Engine Optimization is a framework with a set of rules, a set of rules, stages, and controls applied for optimum result. From content publishing to Ecommerce, and page speed optimization, there are many aspects to SEO. We won’t be able to cover everything, but we’ll walk through the most important aspects to focus on for your website or blog.
  • SEO Management – To be effective, we must manage our SEO with a variety of tools, including the powerful All in One SEO Pack, the most popular plugin for WordPress SEO.

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