11 Free SEO Tips for WordPress | Rank me on Alexa Please

Hello fellas,

Just trying to make Newspaper theme 8 abit more useful :). I’m delivering a short post to all the fellas who are still trying to somehow rank their website, hope it helps.

1. The Title on top of page is already H1 Title, so don’t include H1 tags in your post. Instead, use H2 tags, these will appear as Site Links in SERPS. Here are just two of my posts that appeared on Google:

2. Don’t fall for green light for Yoast, it’s a stupid (yes!) for keywords. Use your imagination, google already uses synonyms if you have ever done a google search yourself. Instead of stuffing up your article with keywords, focus on content and mix up keywords variation.

3. Disable Yoast auto stop keyword stripping. It’s a dumb feature again. Say you have a post- How to download video, it will detect to and remove it automatically. Disable it under Yoast>Advanced>Permalinks>Clean up permalinks>Keep Stop Words in Slug.

4. Use Excerpts as a different version of your meta description. Don’t underestimate the power of them, they are not jsut useful to your readers on your site, but also useful to Search Engine Bots. Use them wisely to add secondary meta description.

5. Image- I would recommend you optimize the image size first before uploading it. Name the file with your keywords before uploading to WordPress and add Alt tags, Title and Description to it. Sometimes, images rank better in Google if optimized correctly and they can help you beat up the top ranking posts. Use Wp-Smush also.

6. Use External Links plugin to disable free juice passing from your website to other sites. Use it globally to keep the Search engines to crawling your website only. You don’t want to send cream to other sites, do you?

7. Do constant interlinking, it’s part of super seo!

8. Use cornerstone articles from Yoast wisely. These can actually help you rank better some of your very important posts. I am currently targeting three posts to test it out.

9. If you want to reduce bounce rate, try Inline Related Posts plugin. It’s superb to show related posts inside your post.

10. Disable Jetpack breadcrumbs. I am still testing it though, but they were kind of messing up with Newspaper default breadcrumbs.

11. Remove Websites under comments, a Website tab will just confuse users and will also add to spam. To disable it, simply add code below in your theme functions and also mobile theme functions:

add_filter('comment_form_default_fields', 'website_remove');
function website_remove($fields)
{
if(isset($fields['url']))
unset($fields['url']);
return $fields;
}

I hope it helps, will try to update the guide as much as i can though. Do help me with it if you also want to help others. You can follow me here: https://medicforyou.in

And be sure to check my other guide too on forums: Speedify your Newspaper Blog

• This topic was modified 9 years by drvarun5179.

Woops, img tool broken perhaps. Here are the images:

SERP Ranking Sitelinks:
https://screenshot.net/n8kjosm
https://screenshot.net/6d68eu8

Yoast Disable Slug Stop Words:
https://screenshot.net/9nd8lt5

Thanks @Bogdon B. , but it seems like I’m greatly suffering from low CPC. Ah the Indians pay so low. I’m testing out google search console feature- data highligther and rich cards. Still guessing if anyone is actually reading this guide. 😀

Be sure to submit your mobile friendliness- https://search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly
https://dynamicweb.com/admin/public/getimage.ashx?image=/Files/Images/News/MobielFriendly_news.jpg&crop=5&fix=br&Width=940

Quick Update

Looks like i have been missing a lot (yes a lot) of SEO because i totally forgot to check my broken links when i migrated from Blogger to WordPress. Even if you haven’t migrated and had fresh install of WP, try getting the Redirection Plugin.

It will tell you about your broken links and redirect all those broken links to another url, so you don’t lose precious SEO Juice of your website.

Thanks a lot, Varun bhai, Can I know how much traffic you receive a month on https://medicforyou.in

Currently just receiving about 200k page views per month. @mrkeerthan

Great Going mate!