SEO for WordPress website

[jackdorsey]

I have been trying to do SEO for my WordPress. Its been a week now. But there is still no improvement in Google. I am not asking for the first page right away but still it is not coming even on the top 300 page itself.
Please some one help me. how long it takes to bring at least top 10 pages of the SERP?

Thanks in advance

 

[fisicx]

About an hour. If you have the right content on the page.

You don't. All you have is a thin affiliate site that won't rank for anything no matter what you do.

 

[Manish Saini]

It depends on how well your website is optimized and how much competitive keywords are?

 

[Pat Walsh]

I'd always recommend using the Yoast SEO plugin for a WordPress site, as it allows you to fine tune your SEO for each post/page, preview Google search results snippets, setup XML sitemaps and much more - and its free.

 

[bigbuzzbelfast]

From what I just saw Yoast was being used look in the source code you would have seen that. The problem with this site is as stated the content is very thin and it is an affiliate type site. Social media may help it but also give it time as time is the most wonderful thing.

I have clients whose websites have been up there for years and trust me they have not kept up all that google asks on a continual basis of site owners but yet their sites do pretty well in the ranking and they get a lot of business.

 

[fisicx]

I'd always recommend using the Yoast SEO plugin for a WordPress site.

Yoast can seriously slow down a busy site. And it's traffic light thing is useless. And most of the other features (like XML sitemaps) have zero SEO value.

 

[Jamie Hennings]

Hello,

Here I suggested some tips that may help you to improve your WordPress site SEO.

1. Starting with your WordPress Blog
2. Alter the default permalinks structure
3. Install an .xml sitemap plugin
4. Install an SEO plugin and start using rel=”canonical”
5. Nofollow untrusted and useless links
6. Noindex duplicate page types
7. Use a CDN to boost your site’s performance
8. Switch to a better web host
9. Block spam comments
10. Use a caching plugin to speed up your blog

 

[Erminoli]

Have you done ANYTHING off-page, too?

You can have the greatest blog of the whole wide world, but if no one links to your content or shares your article via social media, nobody will ever discover it.

 

[mugatea]

Have you done ANYTHING off-page, too?

You can have the greatest blog of the whole wide world, but if no one links to your content or shares your article via social media, nobody will ever discover it.

Not sure. I have a "how to" post, it doesnt get shared much and I dont think it has any back links but it ranks no.1 for the term on Google and people like it. I think there is more to it, I think Google has a way of working out if your post has value or not without the need of links and shares.

 

[rizbit]

Have you tried Yoast free SEo plugin on Wordpress

 

[webhostuk]

Even all in one SEO plugin is a good option to try.

 

[fisicx]

Have you tried Yoast free SEo plugin on Wordpress

No, don't use Yoast. It's bloated and not very good.

 

[Cherin]

some SEO tips for wordpress sites
-Exchange backlinks
-Use short permalinks, including keywords
-Create a sitemap in XML format
-Highlight informative content or keywords
-Add your posts to social networks

 

[webgeek]

Have you done ANYTHING off-page, too?

You can have the greatest blog of the whole wide world, but if no one links to your content or shares your article via social media, nobody will ever discover it.

That is no longer true.

I've personally worked on projects with zero link building which ranked pages for thousands of terms in the span of a few months.

Quality, optimised content is what you need as step 1.

If, after it has been fully optimised, it still doesn't rank, then you could do with a link boost to help (if it's a very competitive sector).

Don't worry about backlinks - worry about building good, original, optimised content.

 

[threenine]

I agree with @fisicx there is a lot more work required on your blog.

At present you have about 10 pages in total. You'll need to grow this to at least 150 + pages before you'll really get noticed by search engines.

Your number 1 issue is authority, i.e. "backlinks" you have none. Without that little piece of magic, no amount tweaking on your website will get you anywhere.

It's amazing how simple it is.
If you want your website to get noticed you need to promote it!

 

[Pet Nanny]

I'd always recommend using the Yoast SEO plugin for a WordPress site, as it allows you to fine tune your SEO for each post/page, preview Google search results snippets, setup XML sitemaps and much more - and its free.

I have yoast since it is recommended widely, but not that sure how to use it effectively!

I also put the link to all my posts via FB, twitter, linkedin etc.

 

[fisicx]

I have yoast since it is recommended widely, but not that sure how to use it effectively!

There are better SEO plugins than Yoast. Yoast can slow down a site, add bloat and provide bad advice. It's popular and reccomended but that doesn't mean it's the best option. It's like Jetpack, Contact Form 7 and caching plugins, popular but not actually that good.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

All in 1 is good for the basics. as are the meta plugins that allow you to do the basics like titles description etc. Nice and light also.

 

[Erminoli]

Don't worry about backlinks - worry about building good, original, optimised content.

But that's not the truth either. You need to have both.

1. Good Content x Zero Backlinks = Zero Traffic.
2. Bad Content x Zero Backlinks = Zero Traffic.
3. Bad Content x 100 Backlinks = Zero Traffic.
4. Good Content x 100 Backlinks = Traffic!

 

[fisicx]

You don't need back links. As long as Google can find and index the site it's possible to rank well for all sorts of things.

 

[Erminoli]

You don't need back links. As long as Google can find and index the site it's possible to rank well for all sorts of things.

Yes... if you're ranking for stuff no one is looking for.

If I set up a blog optimized for the keyword "Banana cream cookies with bacon stripes and grapefruit juice" I'll jump to the pole position in no time. But tell me JUST ONE BLOG ranking with a relevant medium/high volume keyword without having any backlinks. You won't find any, I guarantee it.

However, I think it makes sense to enhance our formula based on your input.

Traffic = Content x Backlinks x Search Volume

If anything in this formula is zero, you won't get any traffic.
If your content is zero (because it's bad or non-existent), Backlinks and Search Volume won't help you.
If you don't have any backlinks, you won't get any traffic for keywords with a high search volume, just because your content is good.
And, finally, if there's no search volume, you won't get much traffic, even with backlinks and high quality content.

 

[bigbuzzbelfast]

No, don't use Yoast. It's bloated and not very good.

what would you use then if not Yoast?

 

[fisicx]

All in one SEO is much better but even that is overkill.

It's why I built my own: https://quick-plugins.com/free-things/no-fuss-seo/

Or you can add edit your functions.php to add the necessary title and description editing box to your posts and pages. The scripts are freely available.

 

[Alan]

The SEO Framework is pretty decent https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/autodescription/

 

[Leasedlayer]

Some SEO tips for Wordpress sites
* Remove Some WordPress Defaults
* Set Permalinks
* Add Some Update Services
* Customize Media Settings

 

[fisicx]

Some SEO tips for Wordpress sites
* Remove Some WordPress Defaults
* Set Permalinks
* Add Some Update Services
* Customize Media Settings

Ignore the above, the SEO value of these tips is negligible.

 

[Hugh Jampton]

Hi all - just read the whole thread.
The thread starter hasn't replied in anyway.

(Im a starter - twisted thread starter woo woo...!)

Just wondering how's it going now??

Any improvements to your web site?

 

[Scott Adlhoch]

If your content Quality is great then, now you should do Off-page SEO. It will help you to get Backlinks and strong your Website Backbone... If your website is a Ecommerce site then please go for PPC and promote your website as you can. Also, the best way to get backlinks is forum and blogs comment but if you need good Quality link then please go Guestographics Methods.

 

[jackdorsey]

yes, thanks for support !

 

[Hugh Jampton]

What improvements & how did you achieve them?

 

[CreativeSeoCompanyBristol]

I have been trying to do SEO for my WordPress. Its been a week now. But there is still no improvement in Google. I am not asking for the first page right away but still it is not coming even on the top 300 page itself.
Please some one help me. how long it takes to bring at least top 10 pages of the SERP?

Thanks in advance

In my opinion, One week is not enough time as it takes longer these days than before for things to kick in properly on the work you may have done, depending on what exactly you've done though

 

[WillGraham]

We are talking about many factors. Depend on how well your content is, how many effective backlinks you have built...
Read more about SEO OFFpage

 

[karatius]

Linee guida di Googe per i Guest Posting
-Stuffing keyword-rich links to your site in your articles
Having the articles published across many different sites; alternatively, having a large number of articles on a few large, different sites

-Using or hiring article writers that aren’t knowledgeable about the topics they’re writing on

-Using the same or similar content across these articles; alternatively, duplicating the full content of articles found on your own site (in which case use of rel=”canonical”, in addition to rel=”nofollow”, is advised)

 

[daica85]

I have been trying to do SEO for my WordPress. Its been a week now. But there is still no improvement in Google. I am not asking for the first page right away but still it is not coming even on the top 300 page itself.
Please some one help me. how long it takes to bring at least top 10 pages of the SERP?

Thanks in advance

Did you try to research again your keywords and choose another one that easier to SEO? Sometimes your keywords you choose have many strong competitors so that you can not beat them even you try to do harder.