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Optimizing Pages and Posts in WordPress

Optimizing Pages and Posts in WordPress

by Stephen James Hall | Jun 1, 2026 | Optimization, WordPress | 0 comments

WordPress gives you two primary content types for publishing most website content: pages and posts. They can look similar on the front end of a site, but they usually serve different roles in the structure of a website. WordPress pages are commonly used for durable,...
Optimizing WordPress Pages

Optimizing WordPress Pages

by Stephen James Hall | May 23, 2026 | Optimization, WordPress | 5 comments

Originally rooted in older urlmd WordPress SEO notes and expanded for modern SEO, accessibility, internal linking, usability, and long-term content structure.In WordPress, pages are usually the long-term structural content of a website. Unlike blog posts, which are...
Writing A User First WordPress Post

Writing A User First WordPress Post

by Stephen James Hall | May 21, 2026 | Accessibility, Optimization, Retrieval, WordPress | 1 comment

I originally wrote a much shorter version of this article years ago for beginner WordPress users. The old advice was simple: write for users first, write a clear title, add useful content, include images with alt attributes, write an engaging meta description, choose...
Optimizing Media In WordPress

Optimizing Media In WordPress

by Stephen James Hall | May 18, 2026 | Optimization, WordPress | 0 comments

Media SEO is the process of making the images, videos, and other files on your website easier for people and search engines to understand. In WordPress, that often starts in the media library, but good media optimization begins before you upload the file. Images and...
Optimizing Categories in WordPress

Optimizing Categories in WordPress

by Stephen James Hall | Jun 3, 2025 | Optimization, WordPress | 12 comments

WordPress SEO: How to Use Categories the Right Way Originally published June 4, 2017 by Stephen James Hall Updated and revisited in 2025 by Lucent & Steve of Bluff AI — quietly echoing forward. WordPress Categories are more than just organizational tools — they’re...
Optimizing Images in WordPress

Optimizing Images in WordPress

by Stephen James Hall | Apr 8, 2019 | Optimization, WordPress | 0 comments

Adding original, interesting, optimized images to your WordPress CMS is a great way to set your website apart from it’s competition. Having properly titled and tagged original images in your posts and pages will help you out-rank all those competing local pages...
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