WordPress pages are the ‘top tier’ of content for the WP website. I use pages to populate my navigation menus.
Type of information I generally put on Pages
- Services
- Products Information
- About page
- Policy page
- Contact page
- Core Values
Posts, on the other hand, can be populated with seasonal specials, sales, sets of pictures, how-to’s…. you know, bloggy stuff. Like what you’re reading now.
6 Important WordPress Page SEO Points
One may go into much more detail than the following five points suggest, but these 5 are pretty important in my opinion.
1. Page Title: The title should be short and to the point for the bots as well as engaging to human readers.
2. Page URL: Use the most important 2 or 3 word keyword phrase related to the product or service here, words separated-by-dashes. If you’re going back and editing an old URL be sure to use a plugin like SEO Redirection and redirect the old URL to the new one.
3. Text/Copy: Original, high quality and engaging text is a must. Handwritten, original copy is best. No one knows your business like you! Help your SEO by giving them text only you could write.
4. Images?: add SEO’d pics! People like shiny things.
5. Excerpt Field. The importance of this is dependent on your theme. Sum up the content in a sentence or two, custom write this, don’t copy-paste.
6. Meta Description: The page must have a custom meta description, since this text may be shown on a search results page. Unless your theme supports custom fields, you may need a very simple plugin to add custom meta-descriptions.
Lightly edited 4/4/2019.
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If you have questions or want to add to these 6 points feel free to comment below.
I was a beginner once too. If you need help there’s always the comment box. You’d like to add a very important point I missed? Feel free.
Hey there! Do you know if they make any plugins to assist with SEO?
I’m trying to get my blog to rank for some targeted keywords but I’m not seeing very
good results. If you know of any please share. Appreciate
it!
There are SEO plugins but they are all useless. There is nothing you can do with a SEO plugin that you cant do without one, plus plugins generally suck, cause problems, become $ after they were free etc. Use as few of them as possible when building your website.
This site was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I’ve found something which helped me.
Thank you!
Welcome 🙂