How to Improve SEO on WordPress Sites
OSTraining
Course Summary
WordPress is a fantastic platform for building your website or blog. By default, WordPress does a good job of search engine optimization, but there's a lot more that can be done!
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Course Description
WordPress is a fantastic platform for building your website or blog. By default, WordPress does a good job of search engine optimization, but there's a lot more that can be done!In this class, Topher takes you through a number of steps to optimize your SEO. Here are some of the key skills you'll learn while following this class:
- Improve your meta titles, meta descriptions and permalinks.
- Optimize your WordPress content for Twitter and Facebook.
- Submit a sitemap to search engines.
- Ping popular sites every time you add new content.
- Connect to Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
Christopher DeRosia (Topher) has been "doing the web" since 1994. With the advent of PHP in 1998, his web sites became much more dynamic and exciting.
He is an accomplished programmer, having written his own content management systems and managed some very large websites. He loves to help people enjoy their websites and believes, "playing with WordPress is fun!". He has built over 30 sites with custom themes and plugins.
Topher lives in Michigan, USA.
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Course Syllabus
Intro
Introduction to WordPress SEOFree
Understanding SEO Quality for WordPress
How to Ping Search Engines from WordPress
Yoast Plugin
How to Install and Configure Yoast SEO
How to Add Metadata With the Yoast Metabox
How to Use the Yoast SEO Dashboard
Improve WordPress Meta Titles With Yoast SEO
Optimize Your WordPress Site for Social Media
Create WordPress Sitemaps for Search Engines
How to Use the Advanced Tools in Yoast SEO
Google Tools
Using Google Search Console With WordPress
How to Use Google Analytics With WordPress
WordPress SEO Quiz
