Wordpress onsite seo

[stevenmyers09]

I am looking for someone to make my wordpress/ecommerce website seo friendly. I just require an analysis of my website and implementation of whatever work is needed. Can anyone recommend anyone.

Thanks.

 

[Ninja Commerce]

Hi Steve.

I can't really recommend anyone (well, I could recommend myself, but I don't want to be that guy!)

But if your site is fairly simple and you are only looking for a basic tune up, you can probably do a lot of it yourself.

I would start by installing a couple of plugins:

all in one seo pack
super cache

The former will allow you to put in page titles and descriptions for each page. The latter will make your site load much faster.

After that, make sure you put a page title and description on each page and stick to Google's size limits for each. Here's a useful tool for optimizing your page titles: seomofo.com/snippet-optimizer.html

Beyond that, there is lots you can do to optimize your site, but the most important things are that you make sure you have plenty of content, include the obvious keywords and make your site userfriendly. Also, it helps if it looks good, so install a nice theme!

A full SEO audit would certainly help, and there are probably some other more creative things that you could do to encourage people to link to you and build traffic, but learning to do the basic on page SEO stuff will be a good start.

If you only have a small budget for SEO, this would probably be the best way to start.

Also, sign up for a premium account on the forums and then you can post your site for review. Then of course you can get some more specific feedback!

Hope that helps.
Regards, Alex.

 

[Tier1Logistics]

Hi Steve,

Speak to Gareth Gillman, hes a member on here, his link to his website is:
http://www.garethgillman.co.uk

 

[fisicx]

Talk to Tamsen: http://website-assessments.co.uk/

BUt...

Is it really onsite SEO you want fixing or do you want more customers? Better ranking does not always mean more sales. You could have fantastic ranking but such an awful site that nobody buys your stuff.

So talk to Tamsen

 

[stevenmyers09]

Thank you everyone for your replies.

 

[Digitalberg]

When it comes to on-page SEO, I’m sure you’ve heard enough about meta tags and keyword density for one lifetime.

The best advice is to first understand the language behind the SEO. Search for : On-Page SEO: Anatomy of a Perfectly Optimized Page

Regards

 

[StevePoster]

Aside from wordpress on site seo the site must provide new, interesting, and beneficial content to the target audience. These implementation will deliver not only the good position in search results but also the great user experience.

 

[FreeRangeWeb]

Use Google Ardwords keyword tool to find out what your potential clients are looking for online and then make sure your website contains those keywords within the content. By providing relevant, useful, content, the search engines will show your site to more people (i.e. you will appear higher in the rankings for that keyword search).

 

[Scott@KarmaContent]

But if your site is fairly simple and you are only looking for a basic tune up, you can probably do a lot of it yourself.

I would start by installing a couple of plugins:

all in one seo pack
super cache

The former will allow you to put in page titles and descriptions for each page. The latter will make your site load much faster.

I'd be wary of using caching on smaller sites. I've tested it on a few sites and it noticeably slowed the site loading time rather than speed it up. I seem to remember @llocally posting something about this a while ago but I can't seem to find it.

 

[fisicx]

Caching on bigger sites can slow things down as well. If you want a fast loading, nippy site the big trick is.... send less data.

Optimise images, strip out unnecessary scripts, tidy up your CSS and guess what, your site will load in a fraction of the time it currently takes. It was true 10 years ago and it's still true now.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Too many people look to treat the symptoms rather than the cause.

 

[ADNattan]

I'd like to recommend the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. It's definitely the best SEO plugin I've come across.

 

[Alan]

I'd be wary of using caching on smaller sites. I've tested it on a few sites and it noticeably slowed the site loading time rather than speed it up. I seem to remember @llocally posting something about this a while ago but I can't seem to find it.

Yes I did. I can't recall the exact post, but basically don't assume the the caching plugins (supercache / W3TC) will actually make your site faster. There are quite a few settings that can be tweaked and some have an adverse effect. You really have to deal with it scientifically, measure, change, re-measure.

Make sure you follow these steps first https://badlywired.com/2015/01/speed-wordpress-website/

 

[Digitalberg]

I'd be wary of using caching on smaller sites. I've tested it on a few sites and it noticeably slowed the site loading time rather than speed it up. I seem to remember @llocally posting something about this a while ago but I can't seem to find it.

Thanks, also depends whether you have a dedicated server, VPS or shared hosting.
if anyone uses cache plugin in shared hosting i'd recommend to use a 5.3 solid with xcache and to inform your Hosting provider to optimize apache and PHP for you then install any plugin to see if there is any progress on the speed etc

On Dedi or VPS then we need to optimize Apache + php on any Distro, also we recommend install opcache + APCu with W3TC to get better performance on site.

 

[Alan]

With a dedicated machine or VPS, then I wouldn't bother with caching plugins and go straight to Varnish and cache from the font end.

 

[Digitalberg]

Good Choice.....No doubt Varnish is also one of my Fave. Just a Small issue on Varnish is that a few clients require HTTP2 and Varnish is only solid on HTTP1.1

 

[Darren Mc]

yes SEO is the way to go.... providing its done right

 

[longnhvietnam]

For Wordpress Onsite SEO, you should do something like:
- Submit your website to: Google webmaster, Bing webmaster...
- Install Google analytics to your website
- Optimize each papge/post on their website (Title, H1, H2...)
- Add Alt text for images.
- Build internal link

 

[fisicx]

- Submit your website to: Google webmaster, Bing webmaster...
- Install Google analytics to your website

Neither of which will help SEO

 

[longnhvietnam]

Neither of which will help SEO

I suppose that submit website to Google Webmaster for example is a method that helps website be indexed by Google faster.
Install Google analytics, yes, it does not have any direct impact on SEO, but it helps you in keeping of SEO campaigns.