The Most Important WordPress Plugin EVER - Top WordPress Plugins for SEO

do you blog well if you do I bet you use WordPress why because it's the best blogging platform out there plus it's free who would want to pay for blogging hey 1 i'm neil patel and today i'm going to teach you how to optimize your wordpress blog now there's one really simple way to do this it's called the Yoast SEO plugin I could tell you go go make all these on-page changes and do this or that but you know what these days SEO is really simple especially if you have a wordpress blog install the Yoast SEO plugin all you have to do is go to the plugins section within your WordPress you search for Yoast SEO plug-in install it and then you're off to the races there's a few things you need to do once you install the plug-in the first thing that you need to do is create an XML sitemap that's within the Yoast plug-in that automatically generates it for you once you create a sitemap go to Google Webmaster Tools and then within Webmaster Tools is actually called search console now I still call it Webmaster Tools because back in the day definitely they used to call it once you add your site go in there and add a sitemap it's really simple you add in the URL that Yoast gives you once you add it it takes Google let's say a day or two to index all of your pages they'll either determine if they want to index them or if they don't want to index them and that's okay the more pages you feed them the more pages that you'll get indexed in addition to that within the Yoast plugin it pretty much does most of it for you just make sure you use a really appealing title tag and a meta description the title tag doesn't have to be the same as your blog post title with the Yoast plug-in you can actually pick a specific title tag for that post it doesn't have to be the same title tag as a blog post name that's what happens with default WordPress if you write a blog post whatever you call it tend to be the title tags but now with Yoast you can pick a new one when you do a Google search you see a blue link at the top and then a sentence or two underneath the blue link at the top is called a title tag the sensors are two underneath it's called a meta description that title tag up top you can create a specific one just for people googling you want to put in the keywords that you think people will be googling for and of course make it appealing as well you can use keywords like now try free or even include the date by doing things like that it causes more quickly when you're including the date you don't want to put the date that is written in you would want to put a date like updated in 2017 or updated in 2020 whatever the year may be by doing that you'll get more quick as for the Meta Description you of course want to include the keywords that you're targeting as well make it appealing sentence so that way people want to click on your listing it's that simple I can go and break down a ton of other ways that you can optimize your blog using the Yoast plugin but those are the main two ways the only thing that you need to do on your end is when you're writing blog posts make sure you cross link so if you have a post on SEO and you have another one on content marketing and that content marketing one talks about text and putting in keywords you can cross link them together by inter linking them within the text within each blog post you'll notice that your blog posts will get crawled better and they'll rank higher you also want to make sure you use the right words and phrases as you're writing the content so if you're trying to rank for the keyword SEO google the word SEO look at the top site that ranks for SEO put it in the tool by SEO book it's called the SEO book keyword density analyzer you put in the URL and I'll show you all the words and phrases people are using the already ranked at top when you get those words and phrases you'll see em by percentage you can then integrate some of those keywords within your blog post and you'll notice over time your rankings will increase that's it do those tactics and you'll rank higher in Google